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<p
align="justify">Born in the
small
Midwestern
town of
Olney, Illinois in 1940, Dooley is an artist with a variety of
professional training. After graduating from Eastern
Illinois University
at
Charleston, Illinois where he received his Bachelor's and Master's degree, he
studied
painting under Billy Morrow Jackson at the University of Illinois, and
Life Drawing at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. An artist and
educator for more than fourty years, Dooley has
been a
professor of commercial art at Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana,
for more
than eighteen years. Dooley's work has been widely published in a
variety of
magazines including Step by Step
Graphics, American Artist, and The Artist's Magazine. His step by step lessons
on
drawing metal
and glass were published by Walter Foster in Colored Pencil
Basics, a book by Sandra Angelo, Special Effects with Colored Pencils, a
video produced by Discover Art, and
Creative Living, a nationally
syndicated television show. Several of his drawings and
techniques can
also be seen in Sandra Angelo's new book,
Exploring Colored
Pencil. David's work has won numerous local,
regional, and national
awards
including Realism Today, the Border to Border National Drawing
Competition, Masters of Colored Pencil show, The
Artist's Magazine's Still Life
Competition, Lana International
Water Media Competition and many others.
His works are also included in many prestigious
private and corporate
collections around
the country. As a result of the wide recognition of his
work,
Dooley has been commissioned by many corporations including Empire Berol,
Heath Candy, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, to name a
few.<br>
Now that David is retired, he travels the nation
teaching a variety of workshops
on
colored pencil techniques. He has been a
featured
speaker at Art
in Action sponsored by NAMTA (National Art Materials and Trades
Association), the Annual National Colored Pencil
Symposiums sponsored by
Discover Art in San Diego, Memphis Art League in
Memphis, Tennessee, and many
others.<br>
David has a studio at his small farm northwest of
Lawrenceville,
Illinois along the Embarras
River. For forty
years he has been married to Debra Ann Dooley, an avid horserider,
and artist in her own right. They have two children, David Edwards Dooley, and Dara Lynn Dooley.</p>
<P><B>E-</B>mail:<A
HREF=mailto:dddooley@ymail.com>dddooley@ymail.com</A></P>
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