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Paul Mullally Venice Daydream Oil on Board

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Paul Mullally Venice Daydream Oil on Board
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Very nice piece. Exceptionally pretty. Artist is Paul Mullally. 15" by 17" framed. Based in Seattle, Washington, Paul Mullally became a realist figure and landscape painter, who travelled world wide for subject matter including the Far East and Europe. Of himself, he says he was a terrible student, struggling through Catholic elementary school as a child growing up in a large Irish Catholic family of twelve children. He was not interested in college, but his father persuaded him to enter Seattle University where he took many art classes. He spent several years working as a "ski bum" in Jackson, Wyoming and then travelled the world for nine months. He was frustrated at not being able to paint as well as he wanted, so he went to New York for three years to the Art Students League where he learned a controlled palette technique. He also studied at the Salmagundi Club and supported himself during this time by waiting tables and doing commercial illustration. In 1988, he moved to Chicago and studied with Richard Schmid at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art and from Schmid learned how to open up his palette from cool to warm hues. In the 1990s, he continued to travel, returning to India and Nepal and visiting Vietnam. He was much impressed by the Hindu pilgrimages to the Ganges River and spent weeks in the Holy City of Benares, from which he did some major paintings. Going back to Seattle, he became a student at Puget Sound Art League in Bellevue until it closed and then began working with another Seattle artist for life drawing lessons. He moved to an area several blocks from where he was raised and lived there with his wife and several cats and dogs. His subject matter is diverse ranging from portraits to Biblical stories. In 1989, he was elected a member of the prestigious Northwest Rendezvous Group and from 1995, a member of the Artists of America. Painting from a studio with objects collected from around the world, he paints whatever seems right for that day, often working from a thumbnail sketch.