Per-Eric Westhagen, Artist, Illustrator, and Photographer

(in the media of pastel, charcoal, pencil, Conte crayon, ink, tempera, oil paint, and photographic imagery)

Per-Eric Westhagen is conversant in this array of media through his lifetime of art creativity. He can prepare quick works in pencil, charcoal, Conte, or pastels, but he can also create heirloom works in either pastels or oils in a traditional treatment.

Per-Eric Westhagen has also been active in photography since childhood and has photographic equipment and skills to tackle nearly any assignment. His film cameras range in sizes to 5x7 in cut film and have swings and tilts for architectural corrections. And he can shoot digitally in the SLR capabilities of the former 35mm film size.

With such a range of creative artistic capabilities, Per-Eric Westhagen is reluctant to display a gallery online as that might "typecast" his diverse talents. He believes that the emphasis should be on what a client wants rather than what has satisfied previous client needs.

Now retired, Eric Westhagen won his first major art award at age eleven as fourth place in the 1953 Chicago Tribune Art Competition which attracted over sixteen hundred entries. Eric's painting received special praise from the Tribune's Art Critic, Eleanor Jewett in her column. The Chicago Galleries Association Conducted an exhibition of winning entries on Michigan Avenue.

Per-Eric Westhagen's "mentor" in art was Lester O. Schwartz, the famed Wisconsin artist who served as Artist in Residence at Ripon College.

Although Per-Eric Westhagen developed his own style of expression in fine art, this solicitation is aimed toward commercial illustration and portrait drawing, pastel work and oil painting.

Per-Eric Westhagen's illustrations and his commissioned portaits exhibit life which Per-Eric has observed with a "constructionist's eye" having made a lifelong study of superficial anatomy of people and animals. Such methods of observation and art training have come and gone throughout the history of art, but Per-Eric believes such fundamental understanding of movement is essential to dynamic representational art and illustration.


Discuss your art need with Per-Eric Westhagen at:

920-332-4330 or email at mktquant@charter.net