Doug bloodworth biography
Doug Bloodworth (Born ) is..
Buses & Billboards
Doug's Story
After getting a degree in Commercial Art & Advertising my first job was designing outdoor bulletins for Lamar Outdoor.
I left there on whim to do caricatures at Six Flags and Bush Gardens but after a season, returned to Outdoor.
In , Doug earned a degree in Commercial Arts and went on during the early stages of his career to work in several genres of the art world.
This time trying my hand at painting the huge pictorials. This lead me on a 15 year quest to master the art of Photorealism. I painted the billboards and even illustrated buses for about 25 years always doing a few paintings on canvas every year with my goal always being to pursue fine art.
On my 50th birthday I realized that time was slipping away and after talking with my wife Karen decided to focus more on paintings.
I had no idea what I would paint! Karen had a background in children’s photography and helped me set up and light the still life’s that I use for reference in my paintings. I loved the dramatic lighting and used comic books and snacks…..a lot of them being the products that I had painted all