Park City Made - Art with nightlife

Snow Park Ski & Toboggan
36x36 Mixed Media on canvas
I’m takin’ it to the streets.

A continuation of my own personal Park City Arts Festival. The High West Distillery is located in the shell of the historic National Garage building. The place is always rockin’. This mixed media piece features overlaid vintage park city storefront signs and early Park City ski industry marketing. In fact, “Snow Park” is one of the earliest organized snow sport areas in Park City.
The effect the piece is going for is what’s known as a #ghostsign which you see on the High West Distillery building ... artifacts from the past.

These pieces can be done custom for a city, a sport, a family, a band ... you name it.

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#mountaininteriors

Anstead Art - Introducing the Landmark Series

THE IDEA IS SIMPLE:

Bring together themes and local landmarks into one piece of art.

These pieces have evolved from my early paintings on the theme. I have rendered many paintings of Park City and Deer Valley areas as well as snow sports and the athletes who perform there.

Now, this is the natural next step in showing the town and the sports I love … done in a completely new way.

I could describe to the slightest detail on

Anstead Painting - Snowboarders and Park City Landmarks in Art

Let's face it …

Snowboarders are gnarly.

THEY TOTALLY ARE!

They are winter sports savvy but they are surfing more than they are skiing.

PLUS - they have an attitude. They are counterculture and that makes them cool by definition, these days.

What is more counterculture than shredding powder trails all around the provincial skiing community!


Why paint snowboarders?

Stewart Anstead Art: Excerpt from the interview with the Park Record newspaper

The following is an excerpt of a news interview with me last year by the folks at The Park Record:

Q. Everyone has a reason for doing what they do. Why do you create art?
A. I feel compelled to do it. That's kind of cliche, I know. I wish I had a better reason than that, but it's the same thing, like, why do people climb mountains? You know? Why do some people become accountants or

Asian Drug Cartels Can't Be Wrong -- STOLEN (AND RECOVERED) - Anstead Original Painting

ANSTEAD ORIGINAL PAINTING

TITLE: TRATTORIA DOLCE VECCHIO

MEDIUM: ACRYLIC ON CANVAS

FRAMED: HALF INCH CHERRY SLAT

SIZE: 36X48

STOLEN AND RECOVERED!

An Important Piece in My Body of Work and a Turning Point in My Career

I have had a career that spans nearly 15 years selling art. My work is in public and private collections throughout the world. It has been so fortunate for me to have found the type of work that I love that could also be a way to make a living.

This is one of the

Art Innovations - Part 2: New pieces in development right now

Here is the next step (Step 4) in the creation of these new pieces.

The point is that the more grunge the better.

One more key step and I will post them when they are done.

Why vintage bikes are a great subject to paint

 "Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul."
- Unknown


There are few manmade objects that are as beautiful as a bike.

#Harley-Davidson motorcycles, specifically, are remarkable.
A beautiful frame, options to sit low, extended out, and built to be appreciated.
Do you hear that? The motor makes that sound ... a sound that is copyrighted.

I have create paintings of mostly vintage bikes and that's because

Dixie's - Anstead Painting - Detail

Close-up detail of recently completed piece - "Dixie's".

© 2012 Stewart Anstead

Acrylic on Canvas

40x30x2

Problem-Solving Through Virtual Art Installations

Now that you've identified a wall in your home or office that could use artwork, there are a few ways to find out what would work perfectly there. Here's how:

CONSIDER LARGE ART FOR AVERAGE-SIZED WALLS

Installation of a large sized 7'x5' painting onto a small entry wall

As you may know, I love painting on large canvases.

Why large art?

Well, it's simple: #LargeArt makes an impression. It makes a statement. It compliments a space in a big way.

I don't paint large exclusively, but so often it is the solution that buyers are looking for, and large paintings are not as common as smaller ones.

Here is an idea of how to effectively use large art on other walls besides #tall, #VaultedWallArt space.

About LeRoy Neiman's Art and Studying Color

Willie Mays by LeRoy Neiman - 1978

#Leroy Neiman was a "celebrity" artist, meaning that he, himself, was a celebrity through most of his career.

There aren't too many of them around, and now there is one less.

He was a lot more than a

LARGE ART FOR LARGE WALLS

Stewart Anstead | Art: LARGE ART FOR LARGE WALLS

Turn that large wall in your vaulted great room into the perfect statement about YOU!