Douglas Drenkow | Designer · Developer

Portrait Painting

Works

Portraits of Young People
Portraits of Ladies
Portraits of Gentlemen
Portraits of Couples
My Color Palette

“Drenkow demonstrates that the art of portraiture is in the interpretation of souls, achieving a final composition that is pleasing to the eyes, for aesthetic effect, and to the heart, for success in the arduous challenge of transmitting, on the flat dimension of the canvas, the most varied states of the soul of the one portrayed.”

— Translated from the article Estados da Alma [States of the Soul] by Oscar D’Ambrosio, Member of the International Association of Art Critics (Brazilian Section)

Learned and Applied Concepts of Design and Techniques of the Masters

In 1996, my mother suddenly, quite unexpectedly died. It was a terrible shock to my elderly father and me; we took stock of our lives. One thing that particularly affected me was how precious and irreplaceable the images of our loved ones were. With my software publishing coming to a close, I answered the innate call to develop my latent talents for art; my “right brain” instinctively needed to mature, to balance out my much-exercised “left brain.”

I studied the works of the Old Masters, learned the timeless concepts of design as well as the newest media and techniques of painting, and created a portfolio of portraits in acrylic and oil that were well-received by my subjects, patrons, fellow artists, and international art critics.

Ultimately, I discovered that the key to “good taste” in art is balance.