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I have been painting since I was 10 years old, working initially in oils and later using watercolor and pastel. I have no favorite medium since I enjoy each for different reasons. I find that switching from one medium to another will help me stay fresh and not have any lengthy dry spells. I enjoy oils for their scale and formal presentation. Watercolors can be done in a very short time and they lend themselves well to working outside on location. Pastels have a quality of combining two aspects of oil and watercolor together, that being that you can use the paper color as a tone in the piece as in watercolor, and you can work light on dark as in oils, something that is impossible in watercolor. Also, the colors tend to be much brighter in pastel, which I like.

My idea of a good time is traveling to a beautiful natural location and painting. In my 50 plus years as an artist, I have traveled to all but three states and painted in nearly all of them. National parks are my most frequented locations, and the Navajo Tribal Parks of Arizona are my favorite. I love the rugged landscape of the west. I am from the east, where green is dominant. In the southwest, red is dominant. Green and red are opposites on the color wheel, so the contrast between east and west is what I enjoy most.

I now live in Marietta, Georgia and love the change of season and the mild winters here, allowing me to work outdoor year round. My wife, Suzie, also a fine artist, and I work out of our home studio and enjoy the artistic community here in North Georgia. We have been members of Gallery 4463 since its founding.]]> en-us Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.7 Sun, 19 May 2013 07:43:39 -0400 120 http://gallery4463.com/gallery/d/342-4/Maier_Don.jpg http://gallery4463.com/gallery/v/A/Maier_Don/ http://gallery4463.com/gallery/v/A/Maier_Don/Don_Maier_EveningParking.jpg.html http://gallery4463.com/gallery/v/A/Maier_Don/Don_Maier_EveningParking.jpg.html
Pastel on Canson paper
11.5" x 8.5"
$400

This plein air pastel was done at night while the Mrs. did our grocery shopping for the week. I have special glasses with lights on both sides that really work well for this.

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Oil on canvas
20" x 20"
$1,400

This oil was painted from a photo shot in the Florida Everglades and was one of a series of animals done for a Wildlife show I had in 2012.

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Oil on canvas
40" x 30"
$2,500

This large oil was done from one of many photographs shot in 2006, while climbing a mountain in Alaska on the White Pass Railroad. The railway traveled along the gold miners' route from Skagway up to the Canadian Boarder and would continue to the gold mines.

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Watercolor on D'Arches 140lb cold press paper
10" x 7"
$600

This plein air watercolor was done in the early morning light while I was taking my coffee. We were on another camping/fishing/painting trip, this time with Louie and the boys to the Carson River in the Sierra Nevadas.]]> Gallery Administrator photo Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:13:22 -0500 http://gallery4463.com/gallery/v/A/Maier_Don/Purple+Door+lr.jpg.html http://gallery4463.com/gallery/v/A/Maier_Don/Purple+Door+lr.jpg.html
Watercolor on D'Arches 140-lb. cold press paper
7" x 10"
$500

This small group of buildings is a few steps from the beach across the Pacific Coast Highway near Pescadero, California.

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Pastel on Canson paper
9" x 6"
$400

This large mouth bass died looking at me as I drew it on the picnic table. It was just caught by my good friend Louie Sanchez while fishing in Northern California.

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Oil on canvas
16" x 16"
$900

This moose was done from a photo shot while on our 2006 Alaskan trip. Here I was trying for a more abstracted look.

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Pastel on Canson paper
19" x 25"
$1,800

Long shadows from the mesa make a great backdrop for the brightly lit sagebrush on the hill and foreground here in Monument Valley, Arizona.

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