Randal Spangler

My artwork is created by using layers of colored pencil over a watercolor wash on brown colored museum board. This allows me to start my values in mid range and work towards both light and dark. The brown paper helps me achieve rich, but muted, colors. I began my art training in second grade in a one room school house (with outhouses) in Kirksville, Missouri. I attended high school in St. Louis, Missouri and after time in the navy, I ended up at the Kansas City Art Institute. My subject matter is totally from my imagination, but is inspired from real life. I began with 2 housedragon characters and have built a world around them. Their world is based on my childhood on my grandparents’ farm, where my grandfather would smoke a pipe and tell us stories by the fire. From a child’s point of view, it was an ideal world, full of adventure. My reproductions are produced by the offset printing process and giclee’ digital printing process on high quality paper with lightfast inks.