Taylor Blackwell has paintings online that are archived under this section. We have embedded Landscapes , Still life & portraits in this section. We can guarantee that you will be surprised to see the options that we have for you.

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After being in the business of painting murals and marble for several years, I’d struck up many friendships with fellow artists who did different things with their art, some commercial, some graphic, some gallery work. It was artists selling work out of galleries that were painting what they wanted, from the truest, deepest place in their heart, whether it sold or not. That was the level that I wanted to attain. Then I was given the opportunity to sell a body of work in a prestigious gallery in the Pearl District in Portland, OR. I painted a series of still lifes of simple objects, like red onions, gourds, a broken head of garlic. The paintings portrayed a realistic impressionistic style inspired by old European still lifes of the 1800‘s. The end result was a sellout show, which I named “Still” and the show was anything but still. I learned that when you paint from the heart, you never fail.

One of the most important aspects of painting is composition. To be able to paint is certainly an impressive skill, but to be able to create composition is what makes a painting effective. This is something I always instinctively knew. When painting murals, I wouldn’t leave the job until the composition worked. Painting murals forces you to get the composition right because if you don’t capture the composition in a mural, the flow and naturalness will never work. Creating composition in the restricted area of a painting proved to be far less difficult than capturing composition in a 20 square-foot room. So when I started painting canvas, I found that the mathematics of the composition were easily achievable, I could focus on capturing things like light source, shadow, and other technical aspects.

My painting style expanded, with landscapes of the beautiful state that I live in. I became fascinated with capturing water and reflection and light source and also creating a landscape that seemed uncontrived and somewhat random, using a heavy impressionistic style, capturing Mt Hood, the junipers of central Oregon and the fog rolling into the small coast hills outside of Eugene. Again I was successful at selling this body of work, which were really only studies, but also huge steps of learning