Andrew Duclos Fine Arts Oil Paintings & Pencil Drawings Wildlife Art and Landscape Oil Paintings I enjoy wandering through wild places and sitting quietly along game trails and feeding or watering areas where a chance encounter with wildlife is most likely. I enjoy the peace and solitude as well as the awesome beauty of the mountains. I love spotting wild animals in their natural habitat. I also love to draw and paint. Combining these passions is the main reason I gravitated to landscape and nature art. Having been introduced to oil painting in the summer of 2009, I have been spending a great deal of my time since then working with this new medium, and have found a new love and exquisite challenge in landscape painting. I believe that successful art is an emotional experience, both for the artist and the viewer. It is not my goal, therefore, simply to create a realistic likeness, but rather to share with the viewer some of the excitement of a close encounter with wildlife or the lure of a beautiful scene. Each piece of art is my attempt to present to you, the viewer, a special place or moment in time that I felt compelled to preserve. Current Shows And Activities As a member of the Plein Air Painters of the Umpqua I take part in weekly paint-outs in Douglas Co. Oregon. While extremely challenging, plein air painting provides excellent opportunity for growth and feedback. September 16 - October 28, 2011 5th Annual Hundred Valleys NW Juried Show Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR Juror - Tom Browning My painting "A Quiet Stretch of River", and my drawing "A Look of Champions" were accepted into this show. I spent a day in September painting on location and taking photographs in Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA. I returned in late November to do more painting. Paintings from those visits have been added to my painting gallery. July 15 - September 9, 2011 Umpqua Plein Air 1st Annual Juried Competition Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR Juror - Mitch Baird My entry in this show, "North Umpqua Morning" has been sold. Now you can visit me on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/andrew.duclos.art Just copy and paste this link into your address.