Craig Amaral

A ‘self taught’ professional oil painter for over two decades, Craig Amaral has taught other beginning, intermediate, and advanced painters, privately and commercially, for over a decade. He is an award winning published artist, including online media such as Streamline Publishing’s Salon competition, numerous solo, group, and fundraising shows at various venues and galleries, and has works held in private collections. He is a member of the plein air painting community, paints with local art society’s like MAPAPA and WSLP paint outs, and participates in the MFA Paint Annapolis and the Solomon Island Plein Air Festivals, publicly. He holds an Associate of Arts from Montgomery College in Architectural Technology; majored in undergraduate art at UMD; studied at the Schuler School of Fine Art; pursued years of Yellow Barn Studio, Chesapeake Fine Art Studio, and Maryland Hall classes and workshops both here and abroad; and other online programs like proko.com’s anatomy for artists. He has led social painting activities with the Kent Island Federation of Painting, coordinates the Oatland’s Greenhouse Studio gallery and 

paint outs, hosts group life drawing sessions, and teaches painting methods and materials at the Yellow Barn Studio. His painting style is a representational contemporary realism with an interest in ideas, symbolism, deeper meaning, and explores the question of motivation for painting a particular subject through the design, composition, handling of light and shadow, line and edge, and the shape and color of paint in a way that invites or intrigues the viewers conscious, and subconscious. ​

Medium: ​oil

​To see more of Craig's work visit his website or follow him on FaceBook and Instagram.

Craig has generously donated this framed oil painting on canvas titled "Pink Floyd, Fluffy's Stuffie or Winter's End" to be raffled to raise funds to support Senior Dog Sanctuary. This oil painting measures 12x24 and is valued at $400.

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