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BoldBrush Recommends: Pat Cheal
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Biography
I've been a commercial artist most of my life. I started my career using pencil, markers, ink, gouache and airbrush. In what seemed like overnight, my work became almost totally digital. I've been working since 2007 as an illustrator for a consulting company in Ohio, spending my days creating illustrations in Photoshop.
The past few years I've felt a growing restlessness with myself as an artist. I wanted to create work that wasn't made while sitting in front of a computer. That's when I took up oil painting - which struck me as the furthest from digital that I could possibly get. It's been a revelation in many important ways for me and I've never felt more like a true artist, as funny as that probably sounds.
My paintings are not about capturing every little detail, every nuance as though my eyes and hand were a camera. I'm so much more about capturing the feeling and the light of what I see. I'm still evolving as a painter - with every piece - and each one I finish teaches me something new.
I'm so fortunate to be represented by galleries across the country now and in the past, and to have had many wonderful exhibition opportunities. I am also thrilled to be included in a couple permanent public art collections in Michigan.
In addition, I've participated in juried competitions state-wide with both plein air and studio work, and have sold many paintings via my website and social media to collectors across the country.
Each painting I finish makes me that much more eager to start my next! I can't wait to see what the future holds for my art!
Thanks for looking. :-)
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