There are many, many routes to becoming an accomplished or even a professional artist, and in the world of realist painting, most of those roads do not begin in an art school.
Take Lynn Dunbar Bayus and Marc Anderson, both of whom started their professional lives not as artists but as professionals in business and illustration, respectively. In both cases, the “call” that put them on the road to accomplishment as an artist began not out of the gate but later, unexpectedly, and not in the Hallowed Halls of Academe.
The brief interviews with both that follow were originally published in “Artist Spotlight,” a regular feature of Plein Air Magazine’s Outdoor Painter website.
Lynn Dunbar Bayus
How did you get started and then develop your career?
Lynn Dunbar Bayus: I was in advertising for 10 years and thought I’d go back to school and help people by being an art therapist. I enrolled to get my masters and took my first painting class and was enthralled. I ended up with a Masters in Social Work, and a love of painting.
What is the most interesting thing you have painted/sculpted and why?
Lynn Dunbar Bayus: My most interesting project was a label for Woodford Reserve Bourbon. I worked on project with Brown Forman, visiting, painting and photographing the distillery. I was challenged to turn a summer scene into a winter scene. Mission accomplished!
To see more of Lynn’s work, visit:
www.dunbar-art.com
Marc Anderson
Getting Real about Learning to Paint
Clyde Aspevig, On the Way to Heaven, 1995 (about 36 x 36 inches)
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