My profile

   My father graduated from the University of California with a Masters in Fine Art. He was an art instructor for over thirty years. He inspired me to learn to draw at an early age, about 5ive years old. He pushed, stressed the importants of understanding human anatomy. He felt the discipline it would take would be key to opening up my mind to all directions in art. The human body being so recognizable, so diverse from one subject to the next, it seemed that if I was to get sidetracked I might not come at all close to mastering it in a lifetime...
    I am basically a self taught artist. I had achieved eye hand coordination by the time I was eleven years old. My dream in life in part, is to master painting. To be able to express a feeling, message that is universal through art that all people will understand, relate too. In the hearts own image...
    I studied the anatomy of Michelangelo, the way his human figures gave feeling to his story by his complete control, manipulation, exaggeration of the human figure. I love the complexity of the Renaissance art. I spent countless hours, weeks, years studying the hard demanding art form of the Renaissance. To be able to control the figure to express feeling, to develop the patience it took for the strategies of design, the sense of timing in my application of pigment and individual mixes of my mediums to push that pigment. To understand color and its possibilities of illusion, the uses of extreme lights and darks to compensate for the flat plane. How to protect my white pigments, my gesso. And all the while, staying with the complete rules of permanency...
    I thought I had learned a little about art, when Rembrandt, Renoir, Van Dyke caught my eye. At this time I had achieved some sort of grasp on the human figure, but painting ? These guys's were awesome. I went into a think tank mode and tried to gather all the information I could about there approach to art. To mostly find that there was little written about them, just basic, allot of gaps. What I did learn was that you must know your materials so well that they become instinctive. To push your paint freely while being on auto-pilot as far as your materials are concerned. I learned the technique of collecting and holding light, to achieve jewel quality effects. How to use my gesso correctly, protecting it all the way to the finished painting, the use of modeling to further collect light and cast natural shadows. How to mix and control my mediums to push paint, fuse colors in numerous techniques in the same painting. The use of optical gray's. With up-most respect for the rules of permanancy. Rembrandt painted with such permanency in mind that his paintings didn't mature for sixty years, that he used removable varnishes that could be removed a thousand years later and re-varnished to keep the painting at 100% indefinitely...
   In all, I have ventured in all periods and styles of art in concentrated years that overlap one another to make up my forty-5ive years on the planet. I have listed these in; ( My Areas of Concentration...). My goal as an artist is to one day have one of my paintings make it to the Vatican, mostly to just have the honor of hanging out with some pretty cool dead artists... Peace...
                                                                                                                                  Devon H.C. Crutcher
                                                                                                                                                          2005

The When,Where and How of Me...
Art Locations, Exhibits, Commissions...
Areas of Concentration...
Inspirations...

The When,Where and How of Me...

Art Locations, Exhibits and Commissions...

Arseno Hall Show
Show # 485 Magic Johnson
36"x 48" acrylic on canvas

Mauna Lani Bay Hotel
Big Island of Hawaii, Gallery of the Pacific
Herman F. Miller

University of Hawaii at Hilo
One man show - approx. 25 paintings

Fresco God
St. Maria Gorretti Church, Lakewood, Ca.
In Memory of My Mother

Whitney E. Houston
36"x 48" acrylic on canvas
Mr. Clive Davis, Arista Records

Tom & Jerry's Famous Photographers
Hollywood Ca.

Magic Johnson
36"x 48" acrylic on canvas, Los Angeles Forum

Kona Gallerie
Big Island of Hawaii

Kealloha Magazine
Hilo, Hawaii

Janet Jackson
36"x 48" acrylic on canvas , with Ms. Jackson

Night Moves
Big Island of Hawaii late night television
One man show and interview

California State Long Beach
Coach Dave Snow

Kim Gennaula
Anchor KGMB #9 News
Honolulu, Hawaii

Darrel Lupenui, Merry Monarch Festival
Hawaii Naniloa Hotel
With Ms. Dottie Thompson

Hawaii Art Gallery
Director Wilbur Won
In house artist, Kaila-Kona, Hawaii

KAPA Radio Station
Brudda Lyman Medeiros
"ALL HAWAIIAN ALL THE TIME"

The Beautiful Talented Ms. Tyra Banks
36"x 54" acrylic on canvas
With Ms. Banks

Whitney E. Houston #2
32"x 40" oil, resin on canvas
With Mr. Clive Davis, Arista Records

The Orchid at the Mauna Lani
Mrs. Carolyn Chase
One man show, Big Island of Hawaii

Pacific Gold, Bo and Marta
Keahou Resort, Kailua-Kona,Hawaii

KA'U Landing Magazine
Cover, March 1998
"Most Stolen Magazine In Hawaii"

"Jewel" KIlcher
30"x 36" acrylic on canvas
Jewels corporate office for two years

"Good Morning Central Oregon"
With Kristi Miller
9-11 Fireman, 32" x 42" acrylic on canvas

The Wall Memorial
Fireman prints in Memory of 9-11
Coney Island, NY.

Areas of Concentration...

Pencil, Charcoal, Conte Crayon Drawing
Oil Painting
Acrylic Painting
Fresco Painting
Brush, Pen and ink Drawing, Illustration
Italian Printmaking, Etching, Dry-point
Watercolor Painting, (dye-ing )
Portrait Painting, Drawing
Furniture Restoration
Painting Restoration
Stained glass

Commercial Art
Graphic Design, Logo, Paste-up, Display,
Showcard, Silk-screen, Airbrush, Printing Press,
Photography, Photo Re-touch, Lettering,
Sign Painting, Gold Leafing, Pin-striping
Fashion, Clothing Design,
Metal Working, Machine Shop, Air Craft Parts
Military weapons

             Michelangelo, Fresco, Figure Drawing,
Figure Invention

Andrea Del Sarto, Oil Painting, Figure Drawing

Van Gogh, (The Insanity, Genius of Perspective)
Impressionism
                                                                                     Rembrandt, Resin Oil Painting, Optical Grays,
   Modeling, Permanency, Fusing Color,,
Foundation, Suspending Color

Monet, Inspired me to see color, Impressionism

   Raphael, The Beauty of Love, The Soul

   Van Dyke, Resin Oil Painting,
The Three Step Painting System
                                                                                  Patricia Lee And Charles E. M. Crutcher

Susan Yugawa, UH Hilo Hawaii

Lauren Green, Artist, Fox News

Pope John Paul II

New York Fire Department

Inspirations...