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Steve Watson

Steve is a design and manufacturing engineer with two degrees in Engineering. However, art has always been a significant interest in his life.

Grade school art classes introduced a means of visual communication that could be quite powerful and fun. One construction paper rendition of the word "Fire" got school wide recognition. And an underlying desire to commercialize soon developed. By fourth grade, Steve had started to make and sell small painted plaster pins. Fellow students would wait for him at one corner of the school yard to see what new items he had made.

Boring junior high and high school classes gave practice time for pencil sketching, typically of hot rods and monsters. He devoured catalogs from Big Daddy Roth, The Mouse and other tee-shirt artists of the early 60's. Equipped with his own airbrush, Steve started selling personalized monster tee's to classmates and painted advertising truck sign boards for a neighbor businessman...including the man's portrait.

College left much less time for doodling in class. But as soon as he could start choosing electives, art was at the top of the list. Steve started doing art at night. This time, acrylics were the medium of choice, and he soon had friends asking him to do a piece for them. He copied album covers and experimented with various visual styles, even did the logos for two college musical groups.

As an adult, Steve has often experimented with art in various forms such as wood carving, furniture making, and pen and ink drawings. But only recently has he returned to his two favorite media, pencil and acrylics, to focus on these two means of expression - appropriate for a Gemini. His work tries to present detail as he sees it, with the hope of evoking emotion in the viewer.

The monochromatic nature of graphite pencils presents a particular challenge which Steve approaches by focusing on textures and by coaxing three dimensionality from a flat piece of paper. His favorite subjects are people, particularly beautiful women. "Why draw subjects that you don't like yourself?", he has said. "I want to be involved personally with my art. Otherwise, what fun is it?" This same feeling carries over to his landscapes of Arizona Deserts and Colorado Rockies.

"Since the pencil is monochromatic, the acrylics give me a means of expressing colors." That same focus on textures led him to explore the softness of acrylic watercolors to render skin and fabric and hair, and again to evoke three dimensionality.

Steve Watson

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#3002 - Afternoon Lean See details
#3002 - Afternoon Lean
Afternoon Lean
13-1/2" x 10-3/4"
Giclee Print
Original medium: Collage
By: Steve Watson
Our price: $25.00
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#3003-Angel See details
#3003-Angel
Angel
14" x 10-1/2"
Giclee Print
Original medium: Collage
By: Steve Watson
Our price: $25.00
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#3004 - Tucson Barrio Doorway See details
#3004 - Tucson Barrio Doorway
Tucson Barrio Doorway
7-1/4" x 9-7/8"
Giclee Print
Original medium: Collage
By: Steve Watson
Our price: $15.00
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#3005 - Sausalito See details
#3005 - Sausalito
Sausalito
7-3/8" x 10"
Giclee Print
Original medium: Collage
By: Steve Watson
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