Steve Shear

Much of my work (including many of my drawings and sculptures as well as my paintings) can be viewed at my website.

In the past I was represented by the Z-Wolf Gallery in Denver, Colorado and The Boulder Art Gallery in Boulder, Colorado as well as galleries in Tucson, Arizona and Brentwood, California. I spent five years painting under the watchful eyes of Jean Packard, a graduate of the Chicago Art Institute, two summers at the Charles Cecil Art Studio in Florence, Italy, and several years at the Boulder Art Academy in Boulder, Colorado. I also trained in sculpting under Valentin Okorokov, an accomplished Russian trained painter and sculptor. During my two summers with Charles Cecil, I concentrated on the figure and portraiture using the “sight-size” method made popular by John Singer Sargent and before him Titian, Van Dyck and Velazquez. In the Boulder Art Academy, we focused on the art of anatomy and the anatomy of art.

I have been painting since 1986. My early paintings (1986 - 2013) can best be described as expressionistic and/or surreal portraiture/figure, often larger than life. Most are from live models and from my sculptures. See for example Lindsay in Reds and Blues and The Music Student at my website. Others come fro...

BS Electrical Engineering
JD Law

I've exhibited in Denver and Boulder Colorado, Tucson Arizona, and Brentwood California