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Rob Shorter – Back at The Truth Gallery
Artist and illustrator,
Robert E. Shorter, has brought his art back to The Truth
Gallery after a five-year absence an absence during which
his talent was sorely missed by Gallery visitors and art
lovers.
Shorter, a Toledoan since
the age of nine, started to show his talent for drawing at
an early age and began his formal art studies at the Toledo
Museum of Art. He attended Edward Drummond Libbey High
School, winning numerous state scholastic art awards and
then continued his studies at Bowling Green State
University.
Over the years, Shorter
has painted and drawn portraits for professional football
players, created numerous sports drawings of other various
pro athletes and of local high school and college athletes.
Shorter’s current preferred medium for his work is
Prismacolor pensils using Strathmore premium drawing paper
or illustration board.
“I’ve always loved to draw
and in the beginning I did quite a bit of oil paintings on
canvas, but clean up and space were always an issue. I found
over time that I was able to draw and achieve the results I
wanted without the clean-up problems using color pencils,”
says Shorter. “I eventually taught myself to ‘paint’ with
pencils.” He adds that “the richness of Prismacolor pencils
allows me to capture any subject in the vivid colors of oils
without the sometimes messy cleanup of using oil paints.”
Shorter has been absent
from the art scene such as art clubs and art shows, but has
consistently created numerous drawings over the years
through commissioned art. He reports that he enjoys working
out of a small studio in his home and has never given up his
passion for or stopped drawing.
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