Bradley Hoback is a Colorado native who lives with his wife, Deborah, and his two dogs, Tara and Dakota, in Conifer, Colorado just outside Denver. Brad, who works exclusively in watercolor from his hilltop studio nestled in the Rocky Mountains, has re-kindled his love for painting after a twenty-year hiatus and has recently emerged as a new and up-and-coming artist in 2002. He is a self-taught artist who was inspired by artists such as Remington, Russell, RC Gorman, JD Challenger, O’Keefe and others.
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Bradley Hoback is a Colorado native who lives with his wife, Deborah, and his two dogs, Tara and Dakota, in Conifer, Colorado just outside Denver. Brad, who works exclusively in watercolor from his hilltop studio nestled in the Rocky Mountains, has re-kindled his love for painting after a twenty-year hiatus and has recently emerged as a new and up-and-coming artist in 2002. He is a self-taught artist who was inspired by artists such as Remington, Russell, RC Gorman, JD Challenger, O’Keefe and others.
Brad’s love for the Southwest and its lifestyles are represented in much of his work. He especially enjoys the warmth and feel of adobe colors and surfaces and concentrates on subjects that have an emotional appeal to him. Painting primarily from photographs captured while traveling, his images record a moment in time through his use of color, light, texture and unique angles . He generally works wet-into-dry, patiently waiting for one wash to dry before applying the other. Using large brushes and sponges to achieve color and texture and 5/0 round tip brushes to achieve the tight detail work as seen in many of his images, he works on only one painting at a time so as not to lose the feel and energy of that piece. Each piece begins with a good balanced drawing and proceeds from there, utilizing burnt umber, yellow ochre, and burnt sienna for base color foundations.
In 2002 Brad started showing in fine art events throughout Colorado and New Mexico. He won an award in the watercolor painting category in the Evergreen Colorado Art Festival for “Ladder to the Sky,” the artist’s rendition of an adobe building featuring a wooden ladder that reached upward towards the heavens. In 2004 he was selected as one of seventy-five artists out of nearly 500 entrants to show in the Transparent Watercolor Society of America’s 28th annual Elmhurst Art Museum exhibit juried by Mr. Mel Stabin. His winning entry was a finely-detailed architectural presentation of the famous white house ruins in Canyon De Chelly in Arizona.
Also in 2004 he was selected to exhibit in the Taos Watercolor Museum’s
National Exhibit held at the Nicolai Fechin House in Taos New Mexico.
This exhibit selected a beautiful portrait rendering of an old Indian chief called “The Majestic”. It took three years on a waiting list to enter this exhibit.
Brad’s art can be seen around the world. [
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