Mitchell Scott
was a teenage staff artist for the Savannah Morning News in 1967. On lunch breaks, he took his student paint box onto the piers of the Savannah River, to paint ships docked at Hutchinson Island terminals before they sailed away.

His passion for painting has not diminished.

He is a native of Savannah, Georgia, who received his formal art training at Ringling School Of Art, in Sarasota, Florida. Commercial art and design was his profession for three decades. For two of those decades he owned an advertising and printing business in Texas. In 2002, Mitchell sold their home and business. He and his wife are now living in their R.V., traveling and painting full time.

Mitchell returned to fine art painting in 1999.

In 2001 his work found artistic acceptance on a national level when he was juried into the membership of the Oil Painters Of America. His art has already been juried into their National exhibition.

His passion is to make canvases for collectors, built on simplified compositions, accurate drawing and thick rich color, imbued with the true Spirit of Joy he experiences while painting.

He married Diane in 1969 and they have one grown daughter,
kandra.

As an aside...Kandra is a web designer and singer of classic songs.

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Artist Statement: "My painting methods are the result of an appreciation for the color genius of Europe's landscape artists, combined with the drawing and compositional skills of noted American painters, past and present. I work to jot down on canvas the most simplified and essential images that my God given observation skills and acquired knowledge of the craft of painting will allow me to produce.

I appreciate the beauty of His creation and His plan for the ages that gives life supreme value and purpose."

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