THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1980
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Local
Local artist likes to paint nature
By SUZIE HEMBY
, Battalion Reporter
The museum-like room is filled
-—-with plants, skulls, shells and paint-
j$s. Harlan Shoulders’ latest paint-
ig is a butterfly landing on a flower
pr a white fence.
A self-taught artist, Shoulders
feed painting in the Navy about
fen years ago with a watercolor
i, and has now progressed to acry-
cs and air brush work.
Shoulders said that he uses acry-
7 VI cs because they dry faster, mix
' ,ell, are water soluble, have no odor
nd the colors are more vivid. He
H he recently started air brush
mrk which gives his paintings a
fashion, a ieau tiful background.
icouthpeo;|#ji ( . uses nature in most of his
2r their oil iaintings, and enjoys learning about
ped by in' lature and teaching it to others,
t New Diarj"! am an Eagle Scout and I really
, to desiaU t0 teac ^ t ^ ie y° un 8 P e °pl e about
emarlf tI« P ire -” he said ' 1 als ° Iove to paint
, ' Hngs of nature. I am not the type of
nv t jj at 1^5 to p a i n t man-made
'‘i Bcts, although I’ve done a few
rugh, soonfedings and other subjects, but 1
•om wearinMly love to paint birds, butterflies,
irned. Somfls, and other objects of nature,”
ly a week ie, said-
across mi flhoulders said he chose to come to
I s tjH caji® 35 A& ^ University because he
1 ■ interested in landscape architec-
! ' ait', and said it was only offered
11 jert Shoulders has since changed
oi my on ^j ors to Horticulture and says that
nay becor if thinks Texas A&M is the best
iderstand ehool for this major,
my label |8houlders said he collects arrow-
)t get me ieads, books, shells, plants, butterf-
v Mine- * es and sometimes skulls of small
animals, which are used for his
tudy of nature and for reference in
lis artwork.
Serving six years in the Navy, he
■yelled to many countries around
he world, including: the Philip-
rfnes, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Guam,
apan, Korea, Singapore, Africa,
liwan and other countries in South-
st Asia. He said his favorite place is
Kuai, Hawaii, which is called the
“Garden Isle.” He said that he likes
Kuai because of the friendly people,
fabulous scenery and great scuba di
ving.
Shoulders said that his moods
affect his drawing, and he is “the
world’s moodiest person.” He said,
“Sometimes I go on for months with
out painting, and then it (an idea) will
hit me, and I will lock the door, not
answer the phone or leave for a cou
ple of days until I have started my
next project.”
After transferring from Hender
son County Junior College in 1979,
Shoulders is now classified as a junior
at Texas A&M, but said, “I still have
about two years of school left before I
graduate.”
He grew up in East Texas and
claims Palestine as his hometown.
Palestine is a fairly small town, he
said, but it is very beautiful.
Shoulders said he has won a few
art contests. “I’ve got a drawer full of
ribbons,” he said. He won those rib
bons from the Anderson County
Fair, the Honolulu Fair, and Texas
A&M.
In 1977, he took “Best Show” at
the Anderson County fair for his
“Red-Tailed Hawk” and in 1979, he
placed in everything he entered. He
has shown his art in several shows,
but admits that he needs a manager
to sell his work.
All of his work is thoroughly re
searched, he said. “Everything that I
do is accurate, I don’t want any incor
rect data in my work, and I strive for
great detail, too.
“My paintings are my way of ex
pressing my interpretation of things.
If I can bring this feeling out of my
heart and have it on paper or some
thing for somebody to see, then I feel
like I’ve accomplished my mission.
When a viewer gets a feeling about
a painting that I have done, then I
know that I’ve come across with my
idea,” he said.
Staff photo by Pat O’Malley
Harlan Shoulders, a horticulture major from
Palestine, paints at his desk. Shoulders prefers
to paint scenes from nature, such as “birds,
butterflies, trees and other objects of nature.
Shoulders says he works with acrylic paints
because they have more vivid colors.
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