About the Artist Lynn Culp
I have raised over 900 colorful dogs from blank canvases.
The no–maintenance dog that will make you smile.
I received my BFA degree in painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey, pursuing a career in graphic design. I returned to painting in 1999 as a hobby, restudied the Impressionists, experimented with bright paint colors directly from the tube, using complementary colors and underpainting.
After 7 years of painting landscapes, figures, still life, and animals in oils, I experimented painting dogs in late 2006. I tried acrylics, a difficult medium to master for an oil painter, but the quick drying time allowed me to have a shipable finished painting immediately. I also challenged myself to do a painting a day, enthused by the large variety of dog breeds and colors.
Within a few months I developed a technique using bright colors painted over a red background, composed with a very graphic style and the image wrapping around the sides of a deep canvas. The final product is a dimensional modern painting, ready to hang, that needs no frame and can even stand on a shelf.
I received two awards at the 2009 Art Show at the Dog Show for Best Entry Depicting a Sighthound and Best Entry Depicting a Poodle, and have twice exhibited at the International Exhibition on Animals in Art at Louisiana State University. My dog paintings are purchased worldwide.
Lynn Culp
Denver, Colorado
Examples of my earlier works, including dogs. Paintings through 2007 are signed Sulpy.
