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Checkers Artist Scott Moore

• He was educated in art at the following schools: John Pike Watercolor School, Woodstock, New York; Cerritos College, Norwalk, California; California State University, Long Beach.
  

• Moore presently lives in Laguna Beach, California, and this is also where he operates a studio and teaches small watercolor workshops.
  
  
• During military service, he was an illustrator for the U.S. Marine Corps and since that time has had a number of publications in magazines and several books on painting.
  
  
• His gallery of artwork is primarily a blend of interesting and unique themes created in watercolor in the Giclée printing process or Offset Lithographs.
  
  
• At first glance his work resembles a form of poster art but the imagery within each theme is far more subtle and needs to be viewed carefully for individual interpretation.
  
  
• Moore represents individuals as his subject matter in numerous different genre settings such as work, recreation or travel; his depictions are very realistic representations of diminutive people set within still life motifs that carry a subtle symbolism behind the imagery of each scene.
  
  
• Throughout his compositions his figures are depicted in a variety of poses and postures surrounded by enormous common place objects that befit the title of the piece and the inherent theme within.
  
  
• Moore uses strong lighting and shadows that focus on the main scene as well as soft hues that are balanced and contrasted by bright, bold colors.

Ice Cream and Candy	Apples and Oranges	Travel Around the Globe
Wall Street		Stockholders

• In the Grocery Checkers Giclée print, the artist’s motif is based on three figures seated at an elongated picnic table where four checkerboards have been placed on the surface, but only one is being used by two checkers players, while a spectator is watching the checker game.
  
  
• The checkered pattern in the flooring matches the color and design of the checkerboards.
  
  
• Realistically depicted yet overly sized grocery objects surround the checker opponents, but a strong light source highlights the figures and draws attention to their postures typical of the focus required in a traditional game of checkers.
  
  
• The composition is an interesting blend of balance and contrast in the size of the food item shapes and the human forms as well as bold and muted colors and tonal shadows.
  
  
• One interpretation is that checkers can be played anywhere, but that the game also has traditional roots in the good old general store.

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