This week’s featured artist is Bill MacDonald, a Quincy artist who is right away upon vaunt during Thomas Crane Library’s categorical branch. You can see a pick up of his portraits, patrician The Quiet Figure, upon a library’s second building right away until Nov. 30.
What’s your art medium?
Graphite, oils, pastel
How prolonged have we been an artist?
Since we was a tiny child
How did we get started?
Comic art — Popeye, Mighty Mouse, a accumulation of superheroes. On Saturday mornings we would watch a weekly Mighty Mouse animation upon TV, afterwards reconstruct it as most appropriate we could. we additionally drew along with Captain Bob — we consider it was Dateline Boston.
Who desirous you?
I often work from hold up — so a impulse comes from a people we paint as well as draw.
Where did we train?
I complicated underneath Tom Ouellette as well as Alison Macomber, as well as attended workshops taught by Constance Flavell Pratt as well as Dennis Cheaney.
Where do we similar to to do your artwork?
Wherever a models have been posing — customarily in galleries, artists’ studios, art centers.
Where have we exhibited?
Quincy– a ArtsFest as well as Thomas Crane Library, Marshfield, Scituate, a South End.
What’s your “ah-ha” impulse in art?
My tall propagandize art bar was run by a connoisseur tyro who didn’t similar to my work during all. we give up a bar after my youth year. When we went to college, we motionless to give it an additional try. The highbrow proposed to travel around a category — criticizing everyone. Then he came to me, took a single look, grabbed a total sketch board, as well as strode fast to a front of a room — whilst we cringed in anticipation. Then he hold it up as well as said. “Now this child gets it. What’s your name, son? Bill? Okay, everyone do similar to Bill.” That was sweet.
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