Steve Hanks (painting children)

Steve Hanks
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(Steve Hanks) - one of the most famous artists working in watercolors. This American artist calls his style 'emotional realism ":" Art comes from a deep inner sense of direction. It begins with the rethinking of his own life, with its search for the source of impulses and attempts to unravel its mysteries. I consider myself a realist emotional. Emotions - that's what I want to portray. Realism - just my way of doing it, ".Deystvitelno, paintings by Steve Hanks often resemble photographs.
Steve Hanks (Steve Hanks) was born in San Diego (California, USA) in 1949. From early childhood, he spent much time on the ocean coast. When the boy was going to school, the family moved to New Mexico. After high school, Steve goes to the Academy of Fine Arts in San Francisco, which he graduated with honors. In 1976, he began working in the designer Campfire Girls Camp (New Mexico).
For several years, Hanks experimenting with different techniques: paints in oils and watercolors, drawing in pencil, working with acrylic paints. Gradually, he produced his own style, which the artist calls "emotional realism". Most often, he writes of people, and it's not just portraits, but it's hard lined compositions in which details are important. Many critics recognize Steve Hanks one of the best contemporary watercolors.