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FASO Collector Recommends: Andrew Pelster
Biography
Authentic Western Art has always held a special place in my heart. I grew up on a family-run cow-calf operation in Southeastern Colorado and my family has been involved in agriculture in the area since the beginning of the Twentieth Century. My art is intended to document, preserve, and honor the culture and values of ranch life in the American West. I convey this through authentically captured snapshots of my family and friends, who continue to preserve Colorado’s shortgrass prairies, and put in long, hard workdays to provide food for the world. Hollywood, and even much of the current Western Art World itself, often portrays a romanticized, fantastical version of ranch life, and the American West in general. To counter the overabundance of inaccurate portrayals of current and past ranch life, I endeavor to authentically portray real cattlemen and women and the animals in their care.
I strive for realism, not only in my subjects, but also through meticulous rendering. Working in dry media allows me to have the control necessary to achieve fine detail. While my primary medium is graphite, I also integrate charcoal and carbon pencils as a means of extending my value range. The physical characteristics of each of these media cause them to reflect light differently, which I manipulate to convey texture, atmosphere, and light. Combining multiple media in this way results in an image that is not simply black and white, but includes a range of warm and cool tones. My process is both additive and reductive, and utilizes a variety of layering, blending, and erasing techniques to create depth and replicate realistic textures. The result I strive for is an image reminiscent of a gelatin silver photographic print, with a nostalgic, yet timeless, feel.
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