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Show Lee Parkinson exhibit slated for Layton Arts open house Layton Council Arts is sponsoring sponsor-ing an exhibit of Lee K. Parkinson paintings. A reception and open house will be held Sunday, Jan. 10 at the Layton Heritage Museum from 2-5 p.m. Mr. Parkinson will lecture Jan. 10 at 4 p.m. Museum hours are Wednesday-Sunday from 1-5 p.m. He will be exhibiting some recent re-cent paintings including western and Egyptian work. Lee K. Parkinson, artist, teacher and lecturer, has spent all of his years in the west, receiving his art education in Los Angeles in the 1930's. After finishing his studies he joined the art and model department depart-ment at Universal Studios where he was influenced by Millard Sheets, the watercolorist. After a period of about five years in California, Cali-fornia, he returned to his native Utah where he has remained since. Through necessity as well as desire de-sire he found himself in the commercial com-mercial art field after he returned to Utah where he worked until 1970. Turning his thoughts to his early training in fine arts he launched into free lance oil and watercolor painting and teaching in the early 1960's. Because he has always been an innovator and tried many techniques and methods there has been decided change in his methods in the past 25 years. He has basically maintained a steady course however, in landscape and wildlife painting which has been his mainstay through his career. During his early years in school he was indelibly influenced by Joseph Packer, a roping cowboy artist, under whom he studied, and LeConte Stewart, the veteran western artist of sage, barns and mountains. These early days provided pro-vided many exciting experiences in the field with pencil, pen and ink, watercolor and oils which became the nucleus of his later training and study. Many of his early years were V ) M V ( j LEE K. PARKINSON spent studying techniques associated associ-ated with watercolors, the medium he primarily employed until about 1945. In 1965-he turned his attention atten-tion in full to oils finding it to be a consuming study in itself. Many of his present day methods are a carryover car-ryover from a rededicated study launched by him in about 1960, wherein he relied upon his early training to develop his present style and scope. For a period of about ten years, he dedicated a great deal of his attention to traveling art seminars, which were conducted on a three-day three-day basis from city to city. His development de-velopment of PGM, a drying and glazing medium used with oil colors, col-ors, greatly enhanced the success of the seminars. He soon found the student must be properly introduced intro-duced to the medium to effectively use it, and this required traveling and giving demonstrations and instruction, in-struction, so the student could become be-come acquainted with the exceptional excep-tional qualities of PGM. In 1978 he completed a "notebook," "note-book," designed to help the stu- dent and artist alike with problems encountered in oil painting. It deals with composition, color, value and marketing as well as many other facets of this fascinating field. His Notebook entitled "Anyone Can Paint" along with eight step-by step written lessons with color diagrams dia-grams are distributed nationwide through Artmaster Publications, Box 792, Layton, Utah 8404 1 . This is his second publication, his first being a book of his works and autobiography auto-biography entitled "Paintings with a Western Flavor" published in 1978. In 1986 he published six teaching videotapes showing his method of painting that complement the written writ-ten lesson materials that were prepared pre-pared earlier. These are also available avail-able through Artmaster Publications. Publica-tions. His career has been further enlarged en-larged by an extended tour of 16 months in Egypt (1985-86), where he was fascinated by the customs, dress and living conditions of the Arabic people. Through his association asso-ciation with Cairo Art guild and the American University at Cairo, he traveled throughout the land studying study-ing and painting the Egyptian scene and is presently writing his impressions im-pressions of the people and their customs. This time in this land and his association with the Egyptians had an overwhelming influence in many areas in his art approach. His time in Egypt found him extremely ex-tremely interested in the architectural architec-tural and historical aspects and the antiquated methods still employed by this culture in practically all phases of their economy. The people peo-ple are very superstitious and still maintain many customs developed over 3,000 years ago. "We found many of their ways made the Bible actually come to life," Mr. Parkinson Parkin-son explains. "It was like transporting trans-porting one's self back many generations to watch them live." Part of his busy schedule is occupied occu-pied at present with telling the Egyptian story through paintings of this very fascinating land. Mr. Parkinson presently resides with his wife, Dodie, in the foothills footh-ills of Layton where he maintains a studio and gallery. He travels extensively ex-tensively to his favorite places through America and enjoys painting paint-ing on location as much as possible. possi-ble. He is continually gathering new material from his excursions to pursue his art. He prepares several sev-eral pieces of work each year for the Leanin' Tree Publications, and keeps several galleries in paintings. TTpeTreRpmiTi7T Reproductions of his best works have been made over the past few years, and now form a substantial collection of graphic representation representa-tion in print and book form. He is the father of eight children, four of whom paint and-or teach art. His works hang in galleries in Taos, New Mexico; Kimberling, Missouri; Pinedale, Wyo., and Carmel, Calif. His paintings are found in public and private collections collec-tions throughout the world. ,l"'aik'ii'Wt' ' 1 |