Oil
on canvas portrait paintings by Ron Keas
Ron takes commissions
for oil portrait paintings.
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Ron for details
Jack London and his 45-foot yacht the
"Snark".
Oil on canvas painting by Ron Keas
"Candle in the wind"
oil painting of Marilyn Monroe by Ron Keas
Oil painting of President Lincoln that hangs
at the Ayres Manson in Jacksonville,
Illinois.- by Ron Keas
3 year old Pomo dancer
Hunter S. Thompson
with Johnny Depp
"Ballerina"
Click links below to see more oil paintings
by Ron Keas
I first gained national attention for my
artwork in 1983, when local Channel 8
News, in Salinas, did a story about me
painting oil portraits of children's
Cabbage Patch dolls. The story was
passed on to the NBC Today Show. I
continued to paint pictures inspired by
the daily events in the World News.
For example, when Pope John Paul II
visited Carmel Ca, Mayor Clint Eastwood
greeted him at the Carmel Mission I was
inspired to do an oil painting of Clint
dressed as an ice-cream man, pushing a
cart, and handing the Pope three ice-cream
cones- Vanilla, Strawberry, and
Chocolate. In the background was
pictured the Carmel Mission. This
light hearted fantasy painting was
published in magazines and newspapers
across America and around the World.
Riding on this wave of this notoriety, I
sold lithograph posters of his oil
painting of Clint Eastwood dressed as a
cowboy riding on a hog. He titled
it,
High on the Hog," or "Dirty Hairy
Pig".
In 1985 I
invented an optical illusion he called Echo-Vision.
I had also developed and built a folding
stereoscopic viewer that he used to view
3-D stereographs that I photographed with
my own techniques. I set up a prehistoric
terrarium on my porch, complete with a sky
with Moon, a volcano with black light, and
vegetation lit by white and colored
lights. I used this set-up as a set to
photograph Dinosaur models in color
stereo-3D. The stereographs I made from
these photo-shoots were sold with my stereo-viewer
on the internet. In 1986 these
stereographs drew the attention of Sir
Arthur C. Clarke online. He emailed me and
told me he attributed his study of science
to a set of black and white stereographs
his father gave him when he was a
boy. He and I became friends over
the internet, and I sent 50 stereo-viewers
and Dinosaurs sets to Arthur as gifts to
the children he cared for at Shri
Lanka. During this time, Ron
traveled to the most popular National
Parks to photograph them in 3-D in order
to produce stereographs that he would sell
with stereo-viewers on the internet.
In 1997, the first Mar's Rover landed on
Mars. NASA put photos taken by the
Rover camera on the internet. I
downloaded these 2-D images and selected
the ones with the angles that would allow
for 3-D stereo-graphs to be made. I
then published these images to the
internet, days before NASA did the same,
making me the first to publish 3-D images
of the surface of Mars. These stereograph
sets were also sold on the internet.
From 1986 until
2004 I lived in Ben Lomond, a small town
in the Santa Cruz Redwoods
mountains. There I photographed the
Redwood's State Parks and supplied their
Visitor Centers with stereo-images and
slideshows of the Parks.
For the next 20
years, I lived in Lake County, Ca. where
he photographed the beauty of nature with
Clear Lake as background. Today the
local hospitals, County buildings,
businesses, and homes have my large,
mounted photographs of beauty of Lake
County displayed on their walls.
In 2006,
Presidential candidate Obama drew my
attention. I began painting oil
portraits of Obama that were
inspired by current events, and for the
next 8 years I painted his portraits and
sold prints of them on the internet. Four
of my Obama paintings were featured at the
Democratic National Convention in
Denver. my painting of the First
Family was featured in the Diversity
Calendar, handed out at Obama's first
inauguration. The HuffingtonPost
wrote, Ron Keas' Obama Paintings Make Us
Proud To Be American. My oil portrait of
Hillary sitting in the Oval Office was
responded to with a heart warming letter
from her. Most recently I was
commissioned to do a painting of President
Lincoln by the owner of Ayers Mansion in
Illinois, where President Lincoln used to
visit his friend, Augustus Ayers. My
painting of President Lincoln now hangs at
the Ayers Estate in Jacksonville,
Illinois. The Mansion owner tells me that
the portrait brings tears to the eyes of
visitors.
I am also
Nationally known for my oil paintings that
appeared on the front page of the New York
Times, magazines, newspapers, and in books
including
"Art
for Marilyn," and "Art
for Princess Diana".
This year I moved
to San Francisco, eager to photograph the
iconic views of the City.
Photographic prints of my art and
photography are considered to be
collectibles. I will also be producing
mounted photo prints, and panoramic images
including anaglyphic 3-D panoramic images
to be viewed with red and blue glasses
supplied with the prints. I am also
still taking commissions for oil
portraits.
For 20
years, before recently moving to San
Francisco, I photographed the beauty of
Lake County, Ca. Here is a link
to my available mounted prints.
EMAIL
See Ron's
photography of San Francisco on
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