David Dooley
Colored Pencil Artist

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.
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.
David has a studio at his small farm northwest of Lawrenceville, Illinois along the Embarras River.  For 31 years he has been married to Debra Ann Dooley. They have two children, David Edwards Dooley, a policeman in Bridgeport Illinois, and Dara Lynn Dooley, an avid horserider, and artist in her own right.

E-mail:dddooley@ymail.com