CREESE-----PAIR OF KOIS ON CANVAS Start Price USD 225.00 Current Price USD 225.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, September 04, 2008 End Time Sunday, September 07, 2008 Location Miami, FL See more about 'CREESE-----PAIR OF KOIS ON CANVAS ' Description VIBRANT PAIR OF ACRYLIC KOI's dimensions: 10 3/4" X 14" L   each (THIS IS A SET OF TWO)  Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated.   MICHAEL CREESE BIOGRAPHY   Born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved with family to the Pittsburgh area at age seven. While in school, I developed a keen interest in art and drawing, and was greatly encouraged by my high school art teachers to pursue my passions. My interest in drawing quickly progressed to a fascination with painting. I discovered that with oil paints I could take just about anything I could imagine and translate it onto canvas.   After being accepted at several different universities, including the Pratt Institute of New York, I decided to study art at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, where I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.   I paint in the oil impasto style, a technique used in art where paint is laid thickly on canvas, leaving visible brush (or palette knife) strokes. When dry, impasto provides a great deal of texture to the finished painting. I also work with several other mediums in addition to oils, most notably watercolors. Only high quality artist's materials, permanent lightfast pigments, archival canvas mounted on solid wood stretcher bars, and acid-free watercolor papers are used in the creation of my work.   I have been fortunate to receive several first-place awards in national competitions, and my paintings have been purchased by collectors throughout the United States, as well as internationally. I am currently a member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society.   Please see the Exhibits page for a list of my current exhibit locations.   Past Exhibits Citizens Bank, Sewickley, PA The Open Mind Bookstore, Sewickley, PA Group Show, The Inn at Glen Echo, Glen Echo, MD Group Show, Flutes of Georgetown, Washington, DC One-Person Show, Wiebe-Bonwell Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA National On-Paper Show, Terrance Gallery, Palenville, NY National Juried Art Show, George Washington University, Washington, DC Group Show, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Group Show, CMU Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA    Professional Associations National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society   Grants & Awards Multiple Today’s Best Awards, Zazzle.com Koi Fish prints selected for publication by AllPosters.com First Place, Purchase Award, charcoal drawing, Terrance Gallery First Place, acrylic painting, CMU Art Gallery Second Place, silk-screen, George Washington University Partial Scholarship, Carnegie-Mellon University   Selected Bibliography Wiebe-Bonwell Gallery Show, Sewickley Herald Macbeth Poster, Sewickley Herald Paintings, Bittersweet Magazine   Commissions “Fisherman, Quebec” 2008, Private Collection, KS "Field of Red Poppies" 2008, Private Collection, CA "Kohaku Koi and Water Lily" 2008, Private Collection, TX "Kitten Portrait, Stormy" 2007, Private Collection, OR "Pennsylvania Farm" 2007, Private Collection, PA "Wild Rose" 2006, Private Collection, PA "Ballerina" 2007, Private Collection, PA "Childhood Barn" 2007, Private Collection, PA "Girl with Dog, Nova Scotia" 2007, Private Collection, PA "Koi Fish" 2007, Upper Midwest Koi Society, MI "Pear Still-life" 2007, Private Collection, PA "Sewickley Village" 2007, Private Collection, PA "Wildflowers" 2007, Private Collection, IL "Maine Coastline" 2006, Private Collection, MA "Lighthouse, Portland Head Light" 2006, Private Collection, MA "Poppies and Storm Clouds" 2006, Private Collection, NY "Backyard, South Carolina" 2006, Private Collection, PA "Red-eyed Tree Frog" 2006, Private Collection, MA "Sewickley Village" 2006, Private Collection, PA "Provence Poppy Field" 2006, Private Collection, PA "Sulphur-wing Butterfly" 2005, Private Collection, PA "Golfing Portrait" 2005, Private Collection, PA "Golf Scotland" 2005, Private Collection, PA     Place a Bid!