David Owens to Demonstrate Oil Painting At Gallery 54

All those who has ever wondered about how an oil painting actually takes form, needs to mark February 13 on their calendars. That's the date that award winning plein air painter, David Owens from Oswego, NY will be demonstrating the art of oil painting at Gallery 54, here.

Artist David Owens

You'll be in good company with Owens. His painting draws its influence from the illustration world and early Golden Age illustrators like Mead Schaeffer, Howard Pyle and Winslow Homer. He appreciates their strong compositions and the loose feel to their brushwork. Additionally, he has “studied a bit with Christopher Baker,” an art teacher and well-known landscape painter who has “been an inspiration over the years.”

Owens has exhibited his painting and won awards on numerous occasions from the New York State Fair to the State Museum in Albany, and an international show in Plasencia, Spain. He's also won two SUNY Presidential Purchase Awards and been a finalist in the Southwest Art's Artistic Excellence Competition.

As a youngster, Owens “stumbled across a book full of early Disney concept art.” He would “look through the book for hours.” When he was introduced to oil paint, while a student at SUNY Oswego, he immediately saw its advantages and has been plein air painting ever since.

Owens expects to complete an oil painting during his demonstration and will have several new plein air paintings on display during the demonstration. He loves the process of plein air painting. “No matter what the results are, it's usually a really relaxing and enjoyable experience, “ he says.

Besides being a regularly exhibited artist at Gallery 54, he has exhibited at the Just Looking Gallery in San Obispo, CA, as well as a solo exhibiting at the Schweinfurth Memorial art Center in Auburn, NY.

Gallery 54 is an upscale venue for Central New York artists that showcases and sells unique, inspired, and timeless art in a diversity of mediums.