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| As a home owner, I spent countless hours looking for decorative design tile and tile murals with images of Western, Wildlife, Native American and Fly Fishing subjects. I have ongoing home improvement project. I want my home to reflect my personality. In several rooms I have created themes. For example in one of the bathrooms I have created a Western or Cowboy theme, a second bathroom a North American Wildlife theme, the kitchen a mix of Western, and Native American subjects. I wasn’t interested in the traditional, repetitive design tile images that were merely a repeat of the same image. I never did find what I was looking for. So, as a forty-year veteran graphic designer, I went to work and created what I call “Story Tiles.” The new Western, Wildlife, Native American and Fly-Fishing story tiles will play a big part in accomplishing a unique atmosphere for my home. |
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| Rich, powerful, soft, tender and heart stimulating describe the artwork of artist Dick L. Sizemore. Sizemore’s artwork reflects his love of the Great Outdoors, Authenticity is the magnet that draws people to Sizemore’s paintings and sculptures. His watercolor scenes reflect a reality that rings true.Nationally acclaimed as an artist of talent and distinction. Sizemore has his artwork displayed in businesses and homes across the USA, Canada, Australia and Japan.Sizemore’s interest in painting and early frontier life began when he was just a young boy growing up in the Rock Mountains.He remembers sitting on a board stretched across the barber chair arms and staring with fascination at scenes of Indian life and artifacts that hung on the barbershop wall. His first taste of artistic success came at the age of six years, when his drawing of a horse was published in a magazine. As an adult, Sizemore began to seriously pursue a career as an artist, completing a four-year course at Utah State University and going from there to a successful stint in Seattle, Washington as a commercial artist. But fascination for the frontier life still had Sizemore in its grip and he becames dedicated to putting the reality of that life into his artwork. Electing to “live his art” Sizemore and his family left Seattle and made their home in three 18-foot canvas tipis on Day Creek in Skagit County Washington, for eight years. Keeping warm with wood heat and hauling water from a spring, they learned first hand the subtle shades of an earlier way of life. “I was looking for a place to live that would be complimentary to my work,” explained Sizemore. “I wanted to be part of my work. I lived my research. It was my laboratory. It was pure survival, but I loved every minute of it.”Sizemore’s favorite medium is transparent watercolor. “I am fascinated with the challenge it gives to me,” he said. “It’s exciting to watch the action of the paint upon the paper, of trying to let the medium carry out its own natural story and then FEATURED BY |
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Designers Choice Tile © Copyright by Dick L. Sizemore, 2004
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