Brian Hendrickson was born in Florida, but raised in the rural areas around Crawfordsville, Indiana. He started drawing at a very young age and continued to do so despite all attempts to interest him in other activities. He inevitably went to art school and subsequently to arts-related jobs.
He has worked as an illustrator for The Indianapolis Star, a courtroom artist for WISH TV, an animator for the video game industry, a writer and cartoonist for Fishheads Magazine, and in various roles in web applications development.
His focus on landscape painting draws heavily on his childhood memories of wandering the wooded areas of Indiana's Montgomery County and his love for traveling into other untamed regions. His aim is to capture and communicate the mystery and beauty that he finds in the wild while always exploring ever farther.
Brian, his wife, and daughter are currently traveling around the United States. They were last seen roaming the Pacific Northwest with a couple of overweight cats and a buggy-eyed dog.
Egg Tempera Painting
Brian works primarily in egg tempera, an ancient painting medium in which raw powdered pigments are mixed with water and the yolk of an egg. The paint is then applied to gesso-coated panels or watercolor paper in thin translucent layers. The nearly instantaneous drying of the paint facilitates multiple washes of color while making other techniques, like the blending of colors on the painting surface, more problematic. It is perhaps for this reason that the egg tempera medium has had comparatively few practitioners since the introduction of oil paints in the sixteenth century.
Egg tempera is especially suited to fine detail work, however, and has a luminous quality to the finished painting that is entirely unique. In addition, egg tempera paintings are noted for their durability. The surface of the painting hardens as it ages, the colors are not prone to fading, nor is the painting surface covered with a layer of varnish that darkens over time.
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Gallery Representation
Franklin Barry Gallery
617 Massachusetts Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Artistic Designs Gallery
817 N Green Street
Brownsburg, IN 46112
Edmund Craig Gallery
3550 West 7th
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
River Run Gallery
42837 McKenzie Hwy.
Leaburg, Oregon 97489
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