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From the artist<br />
My passion for art is a precious gift from God.<br />
As a child, I copied cartoons from comic books<br />
and I drew pictures of everything that interested<br />
me-airplanes, animals, birds, people, and<br />
landscapes.<br />
I continued to draw all through my school<br />
years. After high school, I enrolled in Oregon<br />
Technical Institute's two-year program<br />
combining commercial illustration and technical<br />
illustration. At age 20, I married and we headed<br />
for California where the aerospace industry was<br />
advertising for technical illustrators.<br />
My first job was with Westinghouse Electric<br />
doing ink--line drawings. A couple of senior<br />
illustrators taught me how to airbrush and<br />
introduced me to oil painting. In my afterwork<br />
hours, I began easel painting. Within two<br />
years I started selling in San Francisco Bay Area<br />
galleries -a very exciting and rewarding time in<br />
my art career.<br />
BILL HAMILTON<br />
PHOTOS COURTESY FREED GALLERY<br />
My next day job was drawing and painting for<br />
various aerospace and research companies. My<br />
ability as an easel painter continued to improve.<br />
By that time I was painting in oil, watercolor,<br />
and acrylic, both at work and for the galleries.<br />
My next day job took me to Lawrence Livermore<br />
Research Laboratory. I spent the next twentyseven<br />
years as an airbrush artist, painter, and art<br />
director. Throughout these years I continued<br />
easel painting in my home studio and selling<br />
through California galleries.<br />
In 1993 our family of four moved back to Oregon.<br />
I have painted full-time since then, showing in<br />
several Oregon galleries and continuing to show<br />
in California galleries. To sum it all up-what a<br />
gift! I am a grateful man.<br />
FREED GALLERY<br />
6119 SW Hwy IOI<br />
Lincoln City, OR 97367 541-994-5600<br />
E-mail: info@freedgallery.com<br />
www.freedgallery.com<br />
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