Mike Daley aka: golfpaintr. I am a retired artist now living in central Florida. I love to paint pleine air in mutiple mediums and this is a small portfolio of some of my current work and styles.
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Member of Florida Plein Air Painters and Ocala Plein Air Painters, study at the Cleveland Institute of Art and The University of Toledo School of Design. He traveled on the World Art Tour from 70-74 until the first oil embargo. Past owner of Studio Arts and Frames and Award Art, in Toledo. He spent the last 20 years of his career doing paintings and illustrations of golf courses in the US, having painted over 80 golf courses. I did illustrations for Golf Illustrated and Golf Magazine. I was called on to paint concept drawings of courses for developers and course architects as well as oil paintings of featured holes. I moved to The Villages in 2004 and have enjoyed doing plein air paintings around the state.
Some of my favorite paintings.
My favorite painting and my first gouache.
Mikes Garage, my first gouache painting when I was 16. The influence for this painting was my cousin, mentor and idol, Bill Kuhlman. I worked part time for Bill in his studio in downtown Toledo. Bill was a commercial artist doing ads for Ford and GM for magazines and fliers in gouache. I also worked part time at a Shell gas station, pumping gas and cleaning customers windows, to get gas money for the weekends. Gas was a whole 25 cents and my allowance from my parents was only $1.00 a week.
That is Bill working on the engine and the little red haired boy sitting on his heals is me. The man standing at the gas pump was the mechanic at University Shell. Bill was into racing 3/4 midgets at the time. Great old days and fond memories.
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