A few words, maybe more, from "The Painter of Dark"
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I have completed more than ninety (and counting) highly successful
commissioned spooky paintings, nearly all of them of homes very much like
your own!
Old homes, new homes, remembered homes, imagined homes, each one complete
with people, pets, seasonal decorations... whatever can be pictured or
described to me... plus a host of ghosts hidden in the painting to delight
each viewer. (Small children especially love trying to find them all!)
My aim is to amaze and delight each client! (and I haven't failed yet!)
I love every detail of inventing each haunted painting.
I know of no one else who so occupies this little niche specialty I've
created.
I'm Lewis Barrett Lehrman, veteran graphic artist and
illustrator, professional watercolorist, teacher of watercolor and
artistic journaling at the Scottsdale (AZ) Artists' School and elsewhere,
and author of six books on art for artists. For three years, I served as
founding American Editor for International Artist Magazine
and helped to launch that publication over a decade ago. These
days, however, you'll find me in my studio most of the time, working on
spooky commissioned paintings, as well as new subjects for The Haunted Studio.
The Haunted Studio came about over a decade ago, as the internet was
coming of age. I sold my first prints of a couple of Halloween themed
paintings on eBay. Buyers showed great interest in more paintings, and that was all it took
to get me going.
In 1998, not long after I established The Haunted Studio, I received an odd request from a print purchaser, to create a remembrance of Halloween as she remembered it from her childhood -- and therewith booked my first commissioned Halloween painting. Or highlight/copy/paste the following into your web browser:
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