Thursday, February 28, 2008

Interesting Illusions by Donald Rust

As a camouflage artist, Rusty's fine reputation has spread rapidly. Now, his intriguing work can be seen internationally on products such as collector's plates, tee-shirts, greeting cards, note cards, calendars, limited-edition and open-edition prints. Diversified, best describes his work as his renditions may range from people to wildlife to scenics - always creating the unexpected.























Donald Rust was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1932. He began drawing and painting at a very early age and has never had the desire to be anything but a serious artist. His early work was directly influenced by his grandfather, Emil Rust, Gil Elvgren, Bob Toombs, and Norman Rockwell. However, he feels there has been no one single influence in his wildlife art and insists that all wildlife artists have affected his style.
For many years, Rusty's paintings concentrated on circus and portrait subjects; but recently, wildlife subjects have intrigued him more and more.

Rust's paintings hang in the Ringling Museum of the Circus, Sarasota, Florida, the Norman Rockwell Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Rusty's ability to capture nature lies between fantasy and reality. Realism is his style, but he wants to take the collector's imagination one step further. He is an artist sensitive to nature and its surroundings. The beauty of his artistic documentation is distinctly his own. Rusty takes us not just to a creative visual, but to a place and a story.

Source: rustyrust.dreamg8.com

Stumble This Fav This With Technorati Add To Del.icio.us Digg This Add To Reddit Add To Facebook

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's amazing what SCHLOCK people will buy. Ranks right up (?) there with velvet Elvis and poker playing dogs.

Anonymous said...

Agreed. When the first thing that you see in a painting is the so-called "illusion", you're doing it wrong.

Also the paintings are pretty tacky anyway and just poorly painted.

Anonymous said...

Are you people insane, these are amazing.
If there was more talent like this in the world there'd be no wars.

Thats right - no wars - just think about it!

Anonymous said...

HE IS ON MUSHROOMS