The Art of Gil Garcia

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Pencil sketch by Gil Garcia

In the early years, my mother began to teach all five of her children to draw. I took to portraits and have been enjoying my craft for the past sixty-four years. I have been surrounded by artist my entire life; my father being a sculptor of metal, my brother Paul a sculptor in bronze and silver and a painter of modern art, my brother Ben an acrylic painter, my mother (our mentor) a watercolorist, and my oldest sister (a late bloomer) has taken to watercolors.

Please email me at gilgarcia40@gmail.com if you wish to have a portrait of a loved one or a memorial portrait please don't be shy, don't be shy, I do work from photos.
As you can see below I also do historical reproductions in oils. Standard oil portraits such as Tonja Gauthier and Kerri Halstead on a 16" x 20" canvas $650 plus shipping.

Portraits
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Farm Boy

Marilyn Monroe oil on board

This painting is a bit unusual for me, only because
it incorporates two different styles. I did not take
a very good picture as you can tell in the lower
left there is a washout. I call it, 'Old Field Slave.'
this man really did existed. I used a picture that was
taken in the early days of cameras. I just felt that by
doing his portrait in oils, he would live on forever.

Grandpa Rodolfo Ortega (1909)