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- Sumi-e Painting
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- Waterfall
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- Carter’s Pond
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- Sumi-e ink painting
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- Sumi-e Ink Painting
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- Oil on Canvas
Born on Long Island, NY in 1932, Bob began painting at an early age. He attended Pratt Institute for a semester after high school. He entered the United States Army in 1952 as an illustrator for the 6th Army training aides at Fort Ord, California and at the headquarters of the Army Language School, Monterey, California.
Following discharge from the Army in 1954, he worked as an apprentice for an architectural illustration firm for six months in Los Angeles and left to freelance in architectural rendering, which skill he continues to practice.
His public work, still extant, includes a fresco secco mural for the Church of Religious Science, Las Vegas. He illustrated the book “The Voice Celestial” by Dr. Ernest Holmes, Dodd-Mead, publisher, in 1960.
He worked as an illustrator for Bob Jones University for 10 years (1974-1984), continuing in the architectural work as well.Bob has five children, six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren and now lives in Candler, NC with his wife, Betty Carlson. He continues his painting in palette knife oils, sumi-e and sumi-e with watercolor.
Bob teaches Sumi-e painting and Palette Knife techniques at River’s Edge Studio.
