Doug Dawson Quotes

#1. I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.

Doug Dawson

#2. My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.

Doug Dawson

#3. No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.

Doug Dawson

#4. For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.

Doug Dawson

#5. If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.

Doug Dawson

#6. The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.

Doug Dawson

#7. We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

Doug Dawson