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Painting Through A Pandemic
ARTIST TOM EVERHART ON CREATING DURING COVID AND HIS LATEST SERIES ‘COCONUT RADIO’ “I’ve probably completed about two to three years’ worth of work since the beginning of the year,” Everhart says. “I’ve never had so much uninterrupted time. (more) |
MEET AN ARTIST: TOM EVERHART Everhart’s wry commentary on issues from politics to the environment, culture wars, and the art world have been suffused into often monumentally-scaled paintings based on the iconic comic strip characters, combining confident lines and vibrant color to create surreal, expressive, hilarious, and absolutely joyful experiences. (more) |
The Fine Art of Snoopy
"My dad said to him, 'You need to do your own thing,' " Craig Schulz recalls. "Dad loved his concept and his design. He wanted to make it Tom's work and encourage him to bring in his own direction (more) |
Everhart's Case Artist Tom Everhart is on a mission to make the case that his friend Charles Schulz was self-aware artist of the highest degree. Here's an abbreviated version of his lecture. - See more at: (more) |
Working for 'Peanuts' "He looked at me and said, 'Did you do these?'" Everhart, 61, recounted. "And I said, 'Yes,' but then I got nervous and said, 'I did them in the last week really quickly.'" (more) |
the insider: tom everhart: Let's be real, we're suckers for a Coolio/Clueless reference. But regardless of what drew us in, it's safe to say what was first a curiosity has turned into a full-fledged fascination. (more) |
Q&A With Everhart: “To see a fine artist in a cartoonist is very strange. When I met him I found a person that was a fine artist of cartoons.” (more) |
Rollin With the Homies: Everhart painted alongside legendary Peanuts creator Charles Schulz and is the only fine artist educated by Schulz. In 1988, Schultz encouraged Everhart to carry forward his comic strip creations to the fine art form. (more) |
Peanuts Paean: "You can either face your emotions honestly or be scared to death of what the art world may think," he says of Schulz's trust and encouragement to balance the "Peanuts" characters within his own artistic direction (more) |
Peanuts In Oil: “Schulz told me I was committing suicide, recalls Everhart. Who lives in Venice, “he loved it, but he thought I was nuts. I was scared to death at first as well, but he was supportive”.(more) |
Peanuts Gallery:Peanuts certainly qualified as fun. But rather than approach the characters literally, he chose a style closer to expressionism. He plans to paint two dozen works altogether, including – good grief!(more) |
Man About Town Tom Everhart: Everhart explodes into dervish of frenetic motion, cranking up Brahms’s Symphony No.4 to a deafening decibel and attacking the canvas. He whuumps it with a hardware-store paint roller, as if he were beating a rug;(more) |
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Coconut Radio
Tom Everhart introduces his 2020 collection of paintings from the studio. |
Coup D'état "When I first saw Sparky (Charles M. Schulz) draw, roughly in pencil and then finally in India ink, that beautiful struggle between his characters of Snoopy and Linus over his security blanket, I told him that it had a quality and meaningful expression through which the personality felt like some kind of a coup d’état event". ... (more) |
Bubble Baths "It seems very much like the world is one big round bubble bath comprised of an endless amount of smaller bubbles that we each all live in. Within these bubbles, a meaningful expression through which the personality of the person and the broad outlook of a group are visibly similar"... (more) |
Waves of influence:
Each work in the Waves of Influence body of work is meant to reference a particular influence from my own life experiences that mixed with Schulz’s unique influence, articulates the conditions and reasons for the visual constructions of the last twenty-nine years of my work. (more) |
Dogg E Paddles: As I have watched Jenny (my wife) swim from motu to motu in our lagoon (as all of the poses in each of the Dogg E Paddles are based on) I have realized that I have, as well, been swimming from one stylistic direction to another in order to maintain the growth of the work so that it feels alive. - Tom Everhart (more) |
Puff Doggy Dog: The relationships we see in Everhart's paintings are of course entirely different from those of Sparky (Schulz.) These are the relationships that are from Everhart's own life. (more) |
Starry Starry Light: The relationships we see in Everhart's paintings are of course entirely different from those of Sparky (Schulz.) These are the relationships that are from Everhart's own life. (more) |
Big Popa: Everhart walks through with a group of art dealers on the eve of his highly anticipated New York art opening in May. He was presenting, for the first time one of the key pieces: Big Poppa.(more) |
TODAY Show: Tom Everhart interviewed on NBC's TODAY show by Jamie Gangel. This was a major production involving two full days of shooting on both coasts. (more) |
Homie Dreams: From his studio, Tom Everhart speakes about Homie Dreams. A seriers of paintings that celebrate the people who inspired his own dreams. (more) |
Superfly:Tom speaks from his Venice stuido about the creaion of his series of paintings and prints Superfly. A body of work isspired by a favorite painting by Schulz, Tom's life in Tahiti and his wife Jennifer (more) |
Channel 9 News Denver: While in Denver for the opneing of his exhibit at Fascintion Street Fine Art, Tom stops by NBC Denver to speak about his art (more) |
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