The art works of Steve Ackerman feature fine and figurative oil paintings of imagination in which classical techniques combine with an academic formula and converge with surrealist concepts of time and logic in colour saturated compositions of imaginative invention influenced by surrealism, realism, fantasy and visionary art, pre-Raphaelite and colourist theories

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I like to sketch and draw with a combination of pencil and charcoal. I keep a large selection of different grades of pencils and use three different grades of charcoal to achieve deep black backgrounds and dark shadows.

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