“The Lost” | Richard A Johnson Art

Title: The Lost
Size: 16″ x 20″
Price: $1800.00

These three birds (a gold finch and two house finches) are usually found in populated areas. I see house finches around our bird feeders a lot. The narrative for the three birds in my painting is they have flown into the forest and are lost in the woods. I used a different painting process to do the trees in the background, in this painting I used very wet acrylic paint over a dried layer of darker paint. I absorbed some of the wet paint with a towel, then went back into it with a brush to get more defined shapes. I really like the way the background turned out in this painting.

About Artist

About Richard

Richard developed an interest in nature at an early age by going camping and fishing with his family. His mother was an avid bird watcher, and his father took him fishing often. Fishing helped him develop patience and an eye for doing landscapes. Richard attended The Ringling School of Art and Design, where he fine tuned his eye for landscapes and developed the ability to put what he saw on canvas. He did well in his landscape and drawing classes. Richard is also known for his Tronpe-loeil paintings which he started in 1977. Trompe-loeil roughly translates "To Fool the Eye". His paintings are so realistic that people go up and touch them. Most people are surprised when they find them to be only paint on canvas. People find Richard's landscapes to be relaxing and his Trompe-loiel pieces thought provoking and fun.