Painting is full of magic, it really is. Even though I've been painting for 18 years, it still fills me with wonder in the simple creations I carry out almost every day. I would come across a painting painted by someone who really saw, really felt and was willing to tell about it-the painting changed me. That's why I paint.

-Josh Clare

Josh Clare

Josh Clare

Born in 1982

Bachelor's Degree in Illustration from Brigham Young University

When Josh was young

Especially like painting

The primary school teacher told him The concept of an artist

Josh's only hobby ever since

From that time Josh began to love painting

He has always believed that he wants to be an artist

For some reason

Josh was admitted to a private college Brigham Young University

He officially became an art student

He liked cartoons for a while

Even put John Lasseter and Pixar As "Target"

So I worked under some painters in high school

As a freshman, Josh understood What is a gap

Pixar has become a distant height for him

Even the blind pursuit of learning is not interesting at all

Josh: "I felt that my dream of turning into a sprite with a pencil could no longer be realized in the field of animation, so I started looking for other directions."

The next year Josh decided to study oil painting

He never goes to an art museum

Yitang Art Gallery Visiting Class Changed all his minds

In addition to the amazing feeling brought by painting

He even sneaked a look at the price tag of the work

I thought hobbies could actually make wealth

Josh: "At that moment, I suddenly realized, as if clearing the clouds, a light from heaven shone on me, and I realized that it was possible Make a living by oil painting! ”

Josh Clare and his wife

Josh got married in his junior year

Although I didn't graduate

But Marriage brings him an inexplicable feeling Sense of urgency

That's a ruthless painting

It took him two years

He won the first campus award by his own efforts

(Won the first prize in oil painting category in the annual judging exhibition of the Art Department of the school)

College life is too full for him

In 2007, he graduated from the Scholarship of the School of Artists and stayed on to teach

This is an affirmation from the school

I just graduated and was invited to participate in the art exhibition of the gallery

A seemingly simple activity

Josh began the rest of his life as an artist

△ Portrait sketch while traveling in China

△ Josh enjoys the smoke of people in small Chinese towns

A corner of a riverside town

This made him stick to the way he came from

By this door "Art Activity"

So far he has supported a large family

In 18 years of creative career

Painting is the only thing he can stick to

In the whole network, it is even more obtained Over 500,000 followers' follow and like

In Josh's painting

It's a very traditional artist's performance

Simple landscape paintings or figures or still life

Besides the basic composition expression of landscape painting, Josh

The most delicate is His creativity in capturing light

Because the light in the painting activates the life of the whole landscape

Of course this also depends on Josh's excellent color expression ability

Simple landscape through color warmth and coldness and picture composition

Make the scenery seem not so simple

So beautiful that people feel amazing

△ Josh of outdoor sketching and painting

Joe, who likes outdoor sketching Shi took part in many competitions after graduation

In Gold medals in two national outdoor painting competitions

Covered by countless media magazines

Call him "Artists to Watch"

Josh, 32, made his mark on the national arts scene

Featured in several top art magazines in the United States for three consecutive months

Josh has won national acclaim at the age of 37

△ Josh's father's 30-acre farm

Josh's love for landscape painting stems from Father's 30-acre farm

The farm at your doorstep is comparable to a "small plain"

There are animals, trees, mountains, scenery

Varies with seasons

Josh appreciated it for 21 years

Have strong memories of the farm after he left his hometown

The landscape of childhood It will really accompany people all their lives

Progress in painting is to gain experience in failure

Josh also has hundreds of terrible sketches

But that did not discourage him

Instead In front of a failed painting

He will still feel great joy

Because at the moment Beauty is more important than the success or failure of his paintings

△ Josh's parent-child teaching time

In Josh's work

More than just material wealth

More and spiritual wealth

He is more inclined to have someone understand him

The beautiful feelings he expressed in his painting

No matter how good a painting is

Josh isn't going to be complacent

He believes in the existence of God

So all the beauty in his paintings

It's all a gift of God

Understand from a scientific perspective

Isn't this exactly The fruitful fruits of nature Is it