El Pescador Beach Storm Coming In #1 Metal Print

9X12 Acrylic Sketch on Canvas: Quick 45 minutes sketch before the winds came in and blew sand all over everything. This was my first plein air outing this summer and I was please to see summer colors again, I will probably go back to this later & larger. I was surprised to see how close Catalina Island appeared, as it's 18 miles away at this point, but that was how it was as the storm came in.

Randy Sprout began his art career in 1964 at the University of Iowa, with printmaking and studying with Mauricio Lasansky and Dr. John Schultz. He graduated with a BA in fine arts. In 1968 Army service in Korea interrupted his art for two years, after which he studied with Robert Heineken, Jan Stussy, Ray Brown, Sam Amato, Richard Diebenkorn and Stanton MacDonald-Wright, at the UCLA Graduate School of Fine Arts. He was awarded an MA in 1972 and an MFA in 1973. He had many shows during that time, including a One Man show at the Santa Barbara Art Museum. He also worked for LA County Museum of Art, with Ben Johnson, and restored many priceless prints for the Norton Simon Museum. In 1973, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to restore some...