The riddles! I’m excited! I’m lucky enough to get in touch with David Maclean super-friendly and talented! If you know the riddle, you know David!
Along with the following answers to the questions I share with him, I want to share this link with you – so that you can see his work. Quick https://www.com/
Let’s go and I hope you like it! I know!
Can we learn a little about your background? Tell us about yourself!
“People say you either become an artist, or you’re born in a brain. I believe I was born to be an artist from the day I was born. My mother had a vivid memory of picking me up after my first day of school, just to take me straight to an art store. My mother saw what I created in the classroom, she was blind and proud, and knew that she had to help me pursue my artistic talents. Ask her and she’ll say, “This is his destiny, he’s an artist. “I’ve been a digital artist for the last 20 years, and a traditional artist for 35 years. I now live among vineyards and orchards with my wife for over 40 years, Maryse, and we have three children and grandchildren. I am represented by a leading artistic distribution agency and my art can now be found everywhere in the world. I also have an online art gallery that works.
What made you start creating art for puzzles?
I sold my studio in 2015 after 26 years of operation and owned many art gallerys in Washington, Oregon and West Canada. The only reason I went into art was to feed myself and my family and work to become a full-time artist. It was always the dream I was lucky to have. After selling art, I had my entire time at home and thought about bringing my artwork into the field of art distribution. I emailed 10 different art distribution agencies and received eight contracts within 24 hours. This seems like a pretty good sign that I should be involved in the field of art license production, I have signed with an agency in London England which provides my art to the puzzle industry as well as other products.
You do all the art or have a team of artists?
I invented all my art.
How do you draw, photograph, computerize?
I was a traditional artist (watercolor, acrylic, oil, pencil) on a milk jar from a young age but about 20 years ago I enrolled a course in the evening at a local university to study a new program for an industrial printer that I had purchased for my art industry. After a few months in the course, I started to realize that I could create art in the computer program using tablets and pens as a brush. These are the early days of programs like this when you can create an artwork in computers. I spent the next year playing with it to see if I could transfer my painting with easy skills to the show. This show offers a large coloured palet and allows me to make my brush any size, large or small, hard, or soft as I want it to add to different classes I can do. In traditional art you can work too fast and have to start over again but in the show, you can remove a class and continue, now I have from 140 to 200 classes every time I create an artwork. Once I master the show I never look back.
What is your inspiration for the art of puzzles and it has changed over time?
I get a lot of requests from the company of puzzles for a particular scene meaning that I often have to do some research, and this can sometimes be challenging, but I like this scene. I found inspiration for the art that I created myself in many ways, driving on a road full of houses, to a new place, something I saw on the magazine, on the internet, or watching a movie anywhere. My art was never an accurate description of a place when I took all the best parts of a region and created it into a scene of the area’s feeling. After all these years as an artist, every morning I was still out of bed with a thrill to return to what I was doing. I will never retire as an artist like I love the role of creation.
Is your artwork published in other forms besides riddles, and if so, which form?
My artwork is sold as Wall Art in painting or paper on my website as well as in art gallerys and in copying for puzzles, calendar, diamond art, cross-reference, phone screens and other products. I have over 300 works of art proposed by different puzzle companies.
Do you have a riddle or an artwork that you have created? If so, who and why?
I have some of my favorite works, and our home is like a painting art gallery that we change a few times a year. My favorite works are often powerful emotional works, my goal is to make not an image but an emotion.
Have you ever regretted having an image published after this event?
Well, but years ago I went to a lecture by an artist who became a famous artist at the time and in the lecture when one of his works appeared on the screen, he said he regretted creating it and it was a mistake to allow it to be printed. The audience enjoyed it and many bought it. This is always in me that I may not care about it but someone may like it. Art has such a personal preference that we all see and feel it in a different way. When I have art gallerys, we’ll see couples arguing about what to get.
Do you like puzzles? Do you have a favorite brand?
Yeah, in the winter months we always had a riddle with my art going into the dining room.
How do you see your work grow and how does it grow in the first place?
Over the years, I’ve seen my artwork change so many times and always welcome a new change in my art and find new ways for me to create it as well as new topics.
What’s your plan?
If you had asked me this question 20 years ago I might have written a lot about it but I went to a place in my life that I wanted to let life open and try to flow with it instead of trying to control things. This thought seemed to work for me. “Art to me is a place where I go lost in a world of dreams. My mind sank into the scene where my selfish thoughts could not go and my imagination was free. Time stood still for me to feel permission to go to a place where I belonged to the monster.