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I have always had a fascination with how things look underwater and the impressionist quality of underwater photography. The way the water bends light and creates shadows and highlights on figures give the image a surreal quality; the reality of a snapshot in time.
For years I have tried to capture that quality on canvas with no satisfaction at the end result.
My work in digital painting led me to try to create this impressionistic feeling again.
This gives me the ability to paint in many many layers enables me to use each layer for every color and component. By moving or enhancing these layers I found the feeling I was trying to achieve; the freeing of colors and shapes in motion. Bending the colors involved enhances this feeling and creates an alternative reality.Each piece is a combination of many prior images combined, as well new shapes and colors that each piece demands.
I have always had a fascination with how things look underwater and the impressionist quality...

Leo Malboeuf is new to McKinney, having just moved from Naples Florida. He was born and raised in Worcester Massachusetts where he attended Worcester Academy and studied at the Worcester Art Museum. Leo majored in art at Rollins College in Florida, under Pete Peterson, a noted local realist. He transferred to the University of Miami where he received both his BFA and MFA. While in Miami, he taught undergraduate classes at the University of Miami and at the Lowe Museum School. He also exhibited at the Lowe Art Museum, as well as Galleries in Coconut Grove. In 1972, Leo and Pam moved to Duxbury Massachusetts where he resided for 36 years with his wife, Pam. They founded, taught, and directed Bay Farm Montessori Academy for 29 years....