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Runoff Following A
Cloud Burst
July
5, 2004
12 X 16 inches
Oil on Canvas |
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Arizona
High Country,
June 21, 2004
20" X 16 ",
Oil on Canvas |
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Tugboat
Named Darrell,
July 1, 04
6" X 8 ",
Oil on canvas board |
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 Dave Cornell began
landscape painting while growing
up in the hills of Northern
California. There he studied
under local artists, with
training augmented by painting
and sketching workshops. He
continued to study art through
his high school and college
years, and in 1956 joined the
U.S. Air Force. In 1963 he earned
his Master’s Degree in Civil
Engineering at Arizona State
University through the Air Force
advanced degree program.
Throughout
Dave’s 31-year military
career, he continued to sketch
and paint at every opportunity,
and broadened his artistic
experience by studying the works
of artists around the world. In
1987 he retired from the Air
Force with the rank of Brigadier
General, and began a second
career in airport design and
construction management. In the
year 2000, he again retired and
turned to landscape painting in
earnest .
 To learn more about
painting, Dave attended workshops
with plein air landscape painters
in Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado,
Illinois and Missouri. This
program of advanced study helped
him enter the mainstream of
painting where he continues to
paint for art shows, exhibits and
commissions.
Dave
was honored as “Artist of
the Year” by the Gateway
East Artists Guild in both 2006
and 2007. In 2007 he was judged
“Best in Category” for
oils and acrylics at the annual
Art-In-The-Park Show in Highland
Illinois. He is a founding member
of the Missouri Plein Air
Painter’s Association and is
active in the Gateway East
Artists Guild, Madison County Art
Council, Highland Arts Council
and the Northern Missouri
Artist’s Association. Dave
especially appreciates the beauty
of landscapes to be found in
Illinois and Missouri, and
currently has an inventory of
more than 100 paintings depicting
local scenes.
His
studio is located in his home in
Lebanon, Illinois where he enjoys
a full schedule of plein air and
studio painting, teaching, and
continued studies in the art of
landscape painting. |
