As a young person Arlon Gilliland enjoyed drawing and painting from nature and small man-made items. This has been his main focus over many years, experimenting with a variety of techniques using watercolors, acrylics, gouache and oils.
After employment with a sign shop, he entered the Air Force and worked as a graphic artist for four years. Then he moved to Portland, Oregon, and worke...d as a graphic and illustration artist for eight years. In 1975 he became a freelance artist to continue his mix of fine art and graphic design -- a focus which continues to the present. He has been teaching art for more than twenty-two years, serving as president of the Artists' Studio Association in Lincoln City until this past year.
All a Tangle
Fine Art by artist Arlon Gilliland - Description: The inspiration for my art is seeing everything around me in the middle of my environment. Seeing colors, textures and shapes, realistic or sometimes abstract. Then sometimes just playing in the medium, finding things with spontaneous painting. Everything around me is a source of fascination and delight, being alive to see it and creating art and appreciating it all.
Blue Radiance
Fine Art by artist Arlon Gilliland - Description: Part of the series of industrial abstracts. My love of creating abstract art finds me specifically creating industrial-abstract art.
Broken Remnants
Fine Art by artist Arlon Gilliland - Description: The inspiration for my art is seeing everything around me in the middle of my environment. Seeing colors, textures and shapes, realistic or sometimes abstract. Then sometimes just playing in the medium, finding things with spontaneous painting. Everything around me is a source of fascination and delight, being alive to see it and creating art and appreciating it all.
This piece is currently being displayed at Hawks View Winery in Sherwood, OR.
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Crackled #1
Fine Art by artist Arlon Gilliland - Description: The inspiration for my art is seeing everything around me in the middle of my environment. Seeing colors, textures and shapes, realistic or sometimes abstract. Then sometimes just playing in the medium, finding things with spontaneous painting. Everything around me is a source of fascination and delight, being alive to see it and creating art and appreciating it all.
This piece is currently being displayed at Hawks View Winery in Sherwood, OR.
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Crystal Blue Falls
Fine Art by artist Arlon Gilliland - Description: The inspiration for my art is seeing everything around me in the middle of my environment. Seeing colors, textures and shapes, realistic or sometimes abstract. Then sometimes just playing in the medium, finding things with spontaneous painting. Everything around me is a source of fascination and delight, being alive to see it and creating art and appreciating it all.
Exposed Underlayers
Fine Art by artist Arlon Gilliland - Description: The inspiration for my art is seeing everything around me in the middle of my environment. Seeing colors, textures and shapes, realistic or sometimes abstract. Then sometimes just playing in the medium, finding things with spontaneous painting. Everything around me is a source of fascination and delight, being alive to see it and creating art and appreciating it all.
Forming Patterns
Fine Art by artist Arlon Gilliland - Description: The inspiration for my art is seeing everything around me in the middle of my environment. Seeing colors, textures and shapes, realistic or sometimes abstract. Then sometimes just playing in the medium, finding things with spontaneous painting. Everything around me is a source of fascination and delight, being alive to see it and creating art and appreciating it all.
This piece is currently being displayed at Hawks View Winery in Sherwood, OR.
$450 + Free Shipping
Pale Moon
Fine Art by artist Arlon Gilliland - Description: The inspiration for my art is seeing everything around me in the middle of my environment. Seeing colors, textures and shapes, realistic or sometimes abstract. Then sometimes just playing in the medium, finding things with spontaneous painting. Everything around me is a source of fascination and delight, being alive to see it and creating art and appreciating it all.
Soaring
Fine Art by artist Arlon Gilliland - Description: The inspiration for my art is seeing everything around me in the middle of my environment. Seeing colors, textures and shapes, realistic or sometimes abstract. Then sometimes just playing in the medium, finding things with spontaneous painting. Everything around me is a source of fascination and delight, being alive to see it and creating art and appreciating it all.