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Hello, I am Les E. Smutz. Welcome to my artist's site on ArtWanted.com!

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Please browse, comment, get to know me. A little glimpse:

Career and Art: I am a professional artist, muralist, and an architectural embellishment artisan and owner of an interior design business. I am also a writer, musician and songwriter. I'm a quiet guy, like to listen rather than talk, unless it is to inject a bit of humor. I have written 2 fantasy novellas and numerous short stories. I enjoy the outdoors, flyfishing and capturing the beauty I see or imagine in my paintings and drawings. My art is mostly about beauty and romance and usually includes one or more of the following: clouds, water, female figure(s). I'm not about making statements, just about appreciation of having the gift of sight and the images to which my eye is drawn or my imagination wanders. My mentoring began with a couple of talented high school friends and was further nurtured by studying the works of the great Victorian romanticists: WJ Waterhouse, WA Bouguereau, Sir Francis Dicksee, Godward and many others. My great dream is to illustrate and publish my own book(s) and to make a decent living selling my creations.

Personal: I am married (2nd) to my best friend and first love whom I went with in high school as a sophomore, and found again after 34 years apart on Classmates.com, five children of my own, 4 surviving: all grown, and one stepson.

Interests: Art (of course), architecture, music, science, literature, theater, astronomy, engineering, socializing, studying great artworks by my favorite artists. Playing guitar, bagpipes & keyboard, writing songs...searching for beauty in this world while preparing for the next.

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