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 a…

- Doug Dawson

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

- Doug Dawson

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 - desp…

- Doug Dawson

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

- Doug Dawson

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 inclu…

- Doug Dawson

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…

- Doug Dawson

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

- Doug Dawson