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Tate Hamilton participates in the top Art Festivals through out the U.S. Including the number
one rated art festival in America which is located in Southern California, The La Quinta Arts
Festival. Other Arts Festivals include The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival (rated 3rd in the
nation)Texas, Main Street Fort Worth arts festival, Downtown Denver Arts Festival, The Bruce
Museum in Greenwich Connecticut, Rittenhouse Square arts festival Philadelphia Pa,
Williamsburg Va An Occasion for the Arts, Armonk Arts festival Armonk New York and many
more through out the U.S. He has won many awards and honorable mentions.
Tate follows a very simple painting philosophy: Paint the scene but leave enough out of the
painting to encourage the viewers imagination. He believes that the viewer and the artist
are co-authors of the painting, “I start the painting and the viewer finishes it with their own
story line.”
He enjoys using a limited palette of five colors and has used these same five colors for over
a decade; Cadmium yellow medium, Cadmium red light, Alizarin Crimson, Sap green and
Ultramarine blue. As Tate also explains,” I like to use big brushes because it keeps me from
doing too much detail. I work from photographs that I and my wife take in various places
such as Manhattan, Paris, Denver, etc. and as I’m looking at the photograph I squint and
observe shapes and paint those shapes starting with dark shapes first and moving in a
direction from dark to light.”
Tate has honed his craft under the instruction of many big name artists such as Ken Valastro,
Michelle Torrez, Kim English, Jeremy Lipking, David Shevlino, etc. and continues to study
and learn, believing that we are never done learning or fully mastering our craft. As Fredrick
Remington wrote in his diary a few months before his death and after he had painted over
3000 paintings “I have always wanted to be able to paint running horses so you could feel
the details and not see them. I am getting so I can stagger at it.”
Continue learning and stagger on!
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