Paintings and Sketches by Dave Wallace
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All of the following
artwork was done when we lived in Colorado Springs in the 60's. Most of my early
work was pastels of western scenes that I would frame for Christmas presents. The
first paintings I ever sold were a pair of "abstracts" that were made
from leftover paint slashed on a canvas to clean brushes after painting each
evening. I told the Air Force Colonel who bought them how they were made and he
was delighted to have a story about them but said they matched the colors he was
looking for.
The following are photos taken of what I have
left hanging in our home and our children's homes.
Dave Wallace 9/14/10
This is the largest oil painting I ever did. It was done in
1963 after we moved from New York to Colorado Springs and had bought new
colonial furniture and needed a matching picture. I copied a portion of a mural by Norman Rockwell
in his early days for a New Jersey tavern. What is missing from my painting is a bullet-ridden King George
Tavern sign leaning against the wall on the right and more people on the left.
As you know, Rockwell always told a story with his paintings. The Revolution had
just occurred and a new tavern sign was needed. My painting is 3 1/2' x 2 1/2'.
The original mural was around 5-6' long.
As you can see I'm not very good on originating
paintings. Most my work was copying art that I liked.
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| Copy of Renoir's "Two girls in a
meadow"(oil) |
From a photo I took of an "Old Hotel" in
Cripple Creek. Learned later from an attendee at the art show that it really
was
an old "bawdy house" discussed in a book called "Money Mountain" by Marshall
Sprague (oil) |
This is my great-great grandfather David
Franklin Wallace who was a very colorful person in Tennessee. I'm David IV
and not very good at doing portraits. (oil) |
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| We camped at Mesa Verde CO and
I made this painting from a photo I took (oil) |
This is an original from my imagination of
the
beautiful Aspen trees in Colorado (oil) |
The idea for this painting came from an
old German pen/ink sketch called "Staying power at cards" (oil) |
The following are all pastels or pen & ink
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| Pastel of our daughter Susan
(age 10)
from a photo |
Pastel copy of a picture
in an art book |
Pastel copy of portion of a
National Geographic photo |
Pastel copy of a picture in an
art book |
Pastel copy of a picture in an
art book |
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| Pen/ink sketch in Colorado Springs Sunday
newspaper |
Pen/ink sketch in Colo Spgs Sunday
newspaper. Got the idea of checkmate from a sketch I saw in a chess store
in Greenwich Village, NY |
Pen/ink sketch in Colo Spgs Sunday
newspaper from a photo taken in Cripple Creek. I was requested to do it over
in oil
which I sold to my boss at AT&T |
Now take a look at some really great current art from my friend Ruth Heppler of River Bend at
http://pages.suddenlink.net/ruthheppler/index.htm Be sure to click on "Slideshow
of Paintings" at the top
An index of all my web pages is at
http://pages.suddenlink.net/davew/dave.htm