Ken Requard Oil Landscapes

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Are you tired of staring at blank walls?
Are you tired of staring at boring stuff on your walls?

What would it feel like to have an innovative western landscape painting on your wall that takes you on an exciting visual journey?

A great piece of art is a great way to get a conversation started or create a mood. Perhaps you want something that reminds you of a place or event in your life or you can’t find artwork that matches your decor in the style that you like.

Or are you looking for a unique gift for a special person? Why not give them an original artwork?

I am here to help. If you don’t find a painting to fall in love with on my website, I do offer commissions. I do in-home consultations in the Tucson area. I would love to meet you in person or by video-call. I also have giclee prints available if you are on a limited budget.

I have always had a desire to express my creativity through visual art.
I love nature. I love the western landscape, especially the unique Sonoran Desert where I live. From dramatic dawn to surreal sunset, from bubbling blue brook to soaring red cliff, from scrub bush to saguaro, from aspen glow to blue spruce, there is drama everywhere in the American west.

I find my inspiration in the created world but it is just a starting point on the journey of creating art. I am excited to find the inner essence of a place or a moment in time and then apply my own emotions. It is exciting to see the right shapes, colors and values come together. Each element in a painting (a shape with value and color) is like a note in music. In a pleasing musical composition, there are just the right number and type of notes in the right arrangement.

I want the value pattern to be strong enough to attract interest from a distance and I want the quality of the painted surface and the more subtle nuances of color and value to be intriguing when viewed up-close. I achieve this with a multilayered approach that is related to my background in watercolor and pastel painting.


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Art Training
Workshops with Jill Carver, Judi Betts, Frank Webb, Milford Zornes, Harley Brown, Ray Roberts, Chauncey Homer, Phil Starke, Gabor Svagrik, and Michael Dudash.

Positions
Former President, Eastern Washington Watercolor Society.

Collections
Batelle Corporation
Westinghouse Corporation
Kadlec Medical Center
Evergreen Hospice 

Memberships
Non-signature art memberships: Oil Painters of America, National Oil and Acrylic Painters, American Impressionist Society.
Other: Friends of Western Art. Western Art Patrons (Tucson Museum of Art).

Publications
I have published two articles in “The Artist’s Magazine” including "Game Plan for the Thinking Artist" July 1991. * See my business face book page: Ken Requard Fine Art to read article.

Juried Shows
My watercolor works have been accepted in over 50 juried shows and I am former signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. Other shows include the National Watercolor Society, The LA Audobon Society and the Georgia Watercolor Society.

Recent Juried Shows for Oil Paintings:
Stockton Art League at the Haggis Museum 2016. * Sharon Elizondo Special Award for Oil.
Richeson 75 Landscapes 2016. 
Art Muse Sept 2016 Emerging Artist Finalist - Wilde Meyer Gallery Show, Houston TX 2017.
National Oil and Acrylic Painters International Online Showcase 2016.
American Impressionist Society Small Works Show 2017.
Shemer Art Center Show: "Outside Arizona", Phoenix, September 2017.
National Oil and Acrylic Painters Small Works Show 2017.
WHAM Plein Air Event Juried Competition: * Councilwoman’s Award, April 2018.
Sonoran Plein Air Painter’s Juried Show, April 2018, 4 works accepted.
Arizona Plein Air Painter’s Juried Show, May 2018, 2 works accepted.
Richeson 75 Landscapes, 2018.
Questa-Wild Rivers Plein Air Event, Questa-Red River, NM; July 2018: * First place award in Architectural Category.
Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild “Share Our Walls” Juried Show, September 2018.

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