With a wide range of talents, David is a versatile artist. In the last few years he has focused all of his efforts on his art for Children's book Illustrations. He has always dreamed of immortalizing his artwork for everyone to enjoy in a children's book. David was chosen in college to draw a cartoon strip which was very popular in the school.
Davids style is unique with brilliant colors and detail. He would say, as most devoted artists would, that he was “born with a paintbrush in his hand and a pencil between his toes.” As a young boy he used pencil and pen to record anything that “popped in” his head, built sculptures in the backyard, and poured over wildlife books that his brother brought to him from the school library, as he would sketch out every page from these books.
At age sixteen, David received the very first “young student scholarship” for high school students in Commercial Arts, and attended the Utah Technical College, in Salt Lake City. Shortly after, David joined the U.S.Army.
The year of 1988 was a turning point when David decided to develop and use his artistic skills again. David first began with freelance commercial art advertising jobs, and painted part-time. In 1990, David opened his own gallery in Bountiful, Utah, and†in 1992 he opened “Artel Arts and Crafts” in the Newgate Mall in Ogden, Utah. In those five years of hard work, he produced and sold over 300 paintings.
"I have no fear of color. If it squeezes out of a tube, I like to try it in my paintings.” “I want the viewer of my paintings to feel a part of the world that they may never see, due to the fact that a huge majority of my paintings are from my own visions of places that are familiar, but do not exist.
Whenever I travel, I take my eyes and mind. And from these memories, I sit in front of a canvas and create my vision. I don’t like to make my paintings perfectly lifelike; that’s what the art of photography is for. But I do like to give a person the feeling that they can walk into the painting; and then to feel as if a part of them is INSIDE the painting.” “I believe the thing that inspires me the most is the comments that I get when I show at art festivals and galleries. I love to hear from people when they recognize the different use of colors and the variety of techniques that I use.
“To be famous and well known would be great, but my dreams and goals are to continue to draw my cartoons for children's books, teach art classes, and stroke my paints on canvas for the rest of my life. I want to travel to Europe someday, and study and paint in the places where oil painting was invented and refined.”
