WATERCOLORS

For fifty years or more, I have been placing images on flat pieces of paper. By a conservative estimate, I have covered fifty acres of white paper and in some instances, on canvas, with literally as many pints of paint and ink.
The greatest amount of this output has been as a cartoonist. However, as an extension and overflow of this creative energy and as a lovely recreational activity, I have painted oils and watercolors. The tip of the iceberg can be seen in this current watercolor exhibit. The subject of the paintings range from Plein Air to non-objective. The more inventive non-objective paintings have become my love in recent years. My name is included in Who's Who in American Art, and Who's Who in America.

Increasingly in recent years since my retirement from the Disney Company where I was a staff artist for many years, I have devoted my creative energies to the art of watercolor painting. Besides the non-objective abstract work, I have addressed the knotty problems such as, the war in Vietnam, crime in the streets, the Laguna fire, etc., in a series of subjects which are usually the province of editorial cartoonists. Many artists in history have done the same. Some role models are Goya, (Disasters de la Guerra), Daumier, Picasso, and more recently, Jack Levine, Robert Gwathmey and William Gropper. To quote Rico LeBrun, "The artist must be a scribe of his time." Hence, the events of the historical period must be filtered through the sensibilities and experience of the artist.

 

Studio:
"The Roger Armstrong Collection"
Laguna Hills Business Park
23011 Moulton Parkway Suite H-5
Laguna Hills, California,

Contact: 5253 Duenas
Laguna Woods, California
Call for appointment: (949) 837-2551

Email: rogersart@comline.com

www.RogerArmstrong.com

 

 

 

 

 

Affiliations:
The California Plein Air Artists
Laguna Plein-Air Painter's Association
National Watercolor Society (President 1984-'85) (Life Member)
Artists Equity, Inc.
Laguna Beach Art Assosciation (Life Member)
Niguel Art Association (Life Member)

We regret to inform you our dear and wonderful Roger passed from this life on Thursday, June 7. His heart simply weakened and decided the time came for a rest. He left his body peacefully with Alice and family by his side. Roger went on (to quote Roger) "to his greater rewards" in the marvelous, sweet, calm, benevolent fashion that sums up Roger. Roger often said, "Artists are scribes of the times." He created a vast, prolific and illustrious legacy for present and future generations to experience the world as he saw it. Roger will remain and live on because of his dedication and commitment to his paintings, drawings, sketches, tutorials and the enormous, varied collection of people he loved and gathered around him.

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