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TOM ROOTPaintings and Drawings from Life. TOM ROOT. The work on these pages is painted solely from life, from live sittings with real people or out in the open-air landscape. For better or worse, this is the way it pleases me to work. While the main purpose of this site is to show my wares as a portraitist, I wish to point out that I paint ...
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amy in black: virginia: heather in black: on the beach:...
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tom root paintings : holiday: red guitar: autoharp:...
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janna: toby birr: gwynn study: charles: self - portrait: tbr...
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creek at emerson point: hills and goldenrod: young possum:...
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TOM ROOT Paintings and Drawings from Life : Portraits...
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By Tom Root, alkyd on board, 24” x 24” Collection of the...
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Primarily a figure painter, Tom Root studied drawing and painting at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts and at Ringling School of Art and Design. He works in the traditional style, painting from life. The immediacy produces beautiful portraits that capture a physical likeness animated by a rich inner life.
BIOGRAPHY. In addition to being a painter, Tom Root is also a songwriter, musician, and a writer of children's stories. He studied drawing and painting at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut, under Aaron Shikler N.A. and Deane G. Keller, and at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida.
Tom Root is a portrait artist who works in the Old World style of painting a portrait from life, and having his subject “sit” for their painting. Rather than paint from a photography session, Tom believes he can better depict his subjects if he learns who they are during the typical week-long portrait session.
Tom Root. Tom Root has been a full-time artist for almost 30 years. He is primarily a figure and portrait painter, but also paints landscape, still life and imaginary scenes. Early in his career he also did illustration work, mainly for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the St. Petersburg Times.
Tom Root is a portrait artist who works in the Old World style of painting a portrait from life, and having his subject "sit" for their painting. Rather than paint from a photography session, Tom believes he can better depict his subjects if he learns who they are during the typical week-long portrait session.
Tom Root. Works. Located in picturesque Old Lyme, practically perfectly equidistant from Boston and New York, you'll find The Cooley Gallery.