I was born in the small town of Rosetown Saskatchewan and lived there till I finished High School. Rosetown is about an hour west of Saskatoon. I moved to S'toon for University and studied music composition under Murray Adaskin. I found I was a good learner but a lousy student. I left after two years and went into sales jobs. After selling everything from cars to real estate to TVs and photography until I found my niche. I then found that I was a good artist and made a good living as a freelance photographer.
When I was getting really well known I was hit by a stroke, and, six months later, cancer. I was forced to retire in my early 50's. I sold my heavy film equipment and my business. Stafford Studios still exsists under new ownership.
After a few years I found light weight digital cameras and got back into photo art. I now take portraits of anyone and their animal(s) then turn it into an oil or watercolour painting. I can do the same with exsisting photos by scanning. I also now paint originals. The files in this site are small to allow more files in the site. The prints are from files large enough for sizes up to the size of a billboard unless they are noted otherwise. The large files can be printed on canvas and gallery mounted if you like.This method is usually a little more expensive than the art paper on which I print the best images.
My work is separated into "pages" listed at the top of this column. These are general pages and often images appear on more than one, I'm trying to get them easier to view and find but it will take time.
View my work and if you have questions, want to buy something, or to contact me please write me at Stew@artbystew.com or phone me at 204-452-8746.
Thank you; Stew
When I was getting really well known I was hit by a stroke, and, six months later, cancer. I was forced to retire in my early 50's. I sold my heavy film equipment and my business. Stafford Studios still exsists under new ownership.
After a few years I found light weight digital cameras and got back into photo art. I now take portraits of anyone and their animal(s) then turn it into an oil or watercolour painting. I can do the same with exsisting photos by scanning. I also now paint originals. The files in this site are small to allow more files in the site. The prints are from files large enough for sizes up to the size of a billboard unless they are noted otherwise. The large files can be printed on canvas and gallery mounted if you like.This method is usually a little more expensive than the art paper on which I print the best images.
My work is separated into "pages" listed at the top of this column. These are general pages and often images appear on more than one, I'm trying to get them easier to view and find but it will take time.
View my work and if you have questions, want to buy something, or to contact me please write me at Stew@artbystew.com or phone me at 204-452-8746.
Thank you; Stew
