DAVE IVEY

Painting what I see.

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This scene was inspired while traveling on my motorcycle. It isn't completely accurate but it is close to what I remember.

12" x 16" oil on linen

Posted by Dave Ivey at 7:40 AM

Dave Ivey: Keithville, Louisiana; I love to paint - period. I don't have an agenda or a philosophical message I am trying to get out _ I just like painting. I have had a career as a graphic designer and illustrator and eventually moved to web design. I paint almost everyday, sometimes for a few hours and sometimes for many hours. I'm still in the graphic's business so I awake each morning at 4:50 AM and paint, if only washing in a background and drawing ideas for my next painting. I've spent the majority of my life in the South, so I paint what I know, what is around me and what I experience personally. I also have a more than a casual interest in the human form, faces, figures, and situations. I find it challenging when reproducing the human element because it stretches me to new understanding of seeing what I am looking at and looking at what I see.

•2010 - 41st Annual River Road Juried Exhibit, Baton Rouge, LA

•2010 - American Impressionist Society 11th Annual Juried Show

•2010 - Artist of Norhwest Arkansas Juried Show - President's Award

•2009 96th Annual Allied Artist of America Juried Show, New York, NY

•2009 40th Annual River Road Juried Exhibit, Baton Rouge, LA