Ted Blaylock

Ted Blaylock

Born in 1940 in Perryville, Missouri, in the foothills of the Ozarks, Blaylock showed an interest in sketching and painting at an early age. He built a fir stick easel at age seven and began hunting and fishing in the woods of the Ozarks at age twelve. Although he had no formal art training, he studied art through high school and studied exhaustively the great gallery and museum masters. The Hudson River School and such artists as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran particularly interested him. His other great teacher was nature itself, and his firsthand participation in nature is revealed in the authenticity of his landscapes. Working in acrylics only, his skillful use of color and form enables him to transmit his feeling about nature. He captures the realistic details of what is around us and lends an impressionistic touch to them so that the shapes and forms of nature in his landscapes seem to melt together in a dreamlike unity. Blaylock currently resides and paints in Arizona.

Artwork:

Soaring Eagles

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