About the Artist
Dave Earnest's art journey began in rural Idaho, in the beautiful Treasure Valley, near Boise. Dave remembers early on experimenting with painting and drawing. But music took hold the strongest and he has had a successful career as a full time musician, and eventually, after getting a degree in Music Composition, as a composer of orchestral, choral, and chamber works. He continues with that today, receiving a constant flow of commissions and awards. He also has a successful TV and radio audio production and composing business in Boise.
While attending music school near Chicago, Dave had the opportunity to take drawing and art history and visited the Art Institute many times. His eventual music tours and travels to Budapest, Venice, Verona, Ravenna, Florence, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paris, and Lisbon, among others, have given him amazing up close looks at some of the world’s great art.
The urge to paint started around 2000, using acrylics. Oils followed and he moved out of the studio into the countryside for awhile, painting plein air in the Idaho desert, and on the Oregon coast. Then there was a hiatus for a few years as the music commissions took over. But now he's back at it and is currently painting still lifes and landscapes using oils. Practicing this new art, Dave finds the directness of sharing a painting a welcome respite to the somewhat indirect process of composing, preparing score and parts, hiring the musicians, rehearsing and performing of music. With painting, you paint, people look. And, hopefully, there is an emotional connection.
Started painting watercolors February of 2021.
Watercolor shows
2022 IWS Rotunda “Going to Church in Idaho City”
2023 IWS Anything Goes Experimental Exhibit. Ruth Armatage, juror. “Refugee” Third place. $100
2023 IWS Rotunda “Cole had grossly misjudged his Path to Carnegie Hall”
2023 May IWS Membership Juried show. Robin Poteet, juror. “City Bridge”. Initial Point Gallery, Meridian.
2023 Fusion Exposition. Muffler shop. Garden City. “Refugee “, “Armored”, “Back Alley Conflagration “
2023 July Art Source Gallery Best of Northwest juried show. “Passersby”. Tilly Bubb, juror.
2023 September IWS Juried show. "Ash Fall" Best of Show $100
Instruction:
Various internet videos
Will Kemp School of Art - B & W portrait painting, and drawing courses (2015-16)
Baumgartner DVD course of portrait painting (2015)
Watercolor class with Susan Perin, Sun Valley, ID (2007)
Jerry Yarnell on PBS (2004-2006)
Drawing Classes - Wheaton College (1990)
Previous Shows:
2016
Crossroads Winery, Glenns Ferry, ID (March monthly artist)
Eagle Saturday Market, Eagle, ID May 7
Terrace Lakes Art and Wine Festival June 25-26
Eagle Saturday Market, Eagle, ID July 23
Nampa Festival of the Arts August 13-14
2015
Terrace Lakes Art and Wine Festival
Artisans Invitational, Ketchum, Idaho
Nampa Festival of the Arts, Lakeview Park, Nampa, Idaho
North By Northwest Productions, Boise, ID (monthly artist)
2005 Artist's Co-op show, Boise, ID
2005 8th Street Market, Boise, ID
2004 8th Street Market, Boise, ID - (SOLD: American Colloquial #1 $200)
Charity Auctions:
2023 Mennonite Relief Auction. Poppies. Winning bid $330.
2022 Mennonite Relief Auction. Going to Church in Idaho City. Winning bid $225. .
2016 Mennonite Relief Auction - (Winning Bids: Salmon Valley $275, Mountain Peaks $75)
2015 Youth Club silent auction - (Winning Bid: Sahara Picnic $50)
2006 Mennonite Relief Auction - (Winning Bids: Flower Market $350, Corner Wild $250)
If you're curious about my music, or my audio production business, click one of the buttons below.
Dave Earnest's art journey began in rural Idaho, in the beautiful Treasure Valley, near Boise. Dave remembers early on experimenting with painting and drawing. But music took hold the strongest and he has had a successful career as a full time musician, and eventually, after getting a degree in Music Composition, as a composer of orchestral, choral, and chamber works. He continues with that today, receiving a constant flow of commissions and awards. He also has a successful TV and radio audio production and composing business in Boise.
While attending music school near Chicago, Dave had the opportunity to take drawing and art history and visited the Art Institute many times. His eventual music tours and travels to Budapest, Venice, Verona, Ravenna, Florence, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paris, and Lisbon, among others, have given him amazing up close looks at some of the world’s great art.
The urge to paint started around 2000, using acrylics. Oils followed and he moved out of the studio into the countryside for awhile, painting plein air in the Idaho desert, and on the Oregon coast. Then there was a hiatus for a few years as the music commissions took over. But now he's back at it and is currently painting still lifes and landscapes using oils. Practicing this new art, Dave finds the directness of sharing a painting a welcome respite to the somewhat indirect process of composing, preparing score and parts, hiring the musicians, rehearsing and performing of music. With painting, you paint, people look. And, hopefully, there is an emotional connection.
Started painting watercolors February of 2021.
Watercolor shows
2022 IWS Rotunda “Going to Church in Idaho City”
2023 IWS Anything Goes Experimental Exhibit. Ruth Armatage, juror. “Refugee” Third place. $100
2023 IWS Rotunda “Cole had grossly misjudged his Path to Carnegie Hall”
2023 May IWS Membership Juried show. Robin Poteet, juror. “City Bridge”. Initial Point Gallery, Meridian.
2023 Fusion Exposition. Muffler shop. Garden City. “Refugee “, “Armored”, “Back Alley Conflagration “
2023 July Art Source Gallery Best of Northwest juried show. “Passersby”. Tilly Bubb, juror.
2023 September IWS Juried show. "Ash Fall" Best of Show $100
Instruction:
Various internet videos
Will Kemp School of Art - B & W portrait painting, and drawing courses (2015-16)
Baumgartner DVD course of portrait painting (2015)
Watercolor class with Susan Perin, Sun Valley, ID (2007)
Jerry Yarnell on PBS (2004-2006)
Drawing Classes - Wheaton College (1990)
Previous Shows:
2016
Crossroads Winery, Glenns Ferry, ID (March monthly artist)
Eagle Saturday Market, Eagle, ID May 7
Terrace Lakes Art and Wine Festival June 25-26
Eagle Saturday Market, Eagle, ID July 23
Nampa Festival of the Arts August 13-14
2015
Terrace Lakes Art and Wine Festival
Artisans Invitational, Ketchum, Idaho
Nampa Festival of the Arts, Lakeview Park, Nampa, Idaho
North By Northwest Productions, Boise, ID (monthly artist)
2005 Artist's Co-op show, Boise, ID
2005 8th Street Market, Boise, ID
2004 8th Street Market, Boise, ID - (SOLD: American Colloquial #1 $200)
Charity Auctions:
2023 Mennonite Relief Auction. Poppies. Winning bid $330.
2022 Mennonite Relief Auction. Going to Church in Idaho City. Winning bid $225. .
2016 Mennonite Relief Auction - (Winning Bids: Salmon Valley $275, Mountain Peaks $75)
2015 Youth Club silent auction - (Winning Bid: Sahara Picnic $50)
2006 Mennonite Relief Auction - (Winning Bids: Flower Market $350, Corner Wild $250)
If you're curious about my music, or my audio production business, click one of the buttons below.