WLutkus@aol.com
My name is Bill Lutkus from Watertown Connecticut where my wife Barbara and I have lived for the last 35 years. My educational background is mechanical engineering, a field I have worked in for over 35 years. I also operate my own business, Quality Signs, making commercial signs for businesses in the area. From hand carved gold leaf signs, or truck lettering, I enjoy all aspects of the sign business, especially the artistic portion. I am basically a self taught artist with some help from adult education art classes. Most of my paintings to date are acrylic although I do like to experiment with watercolors as well. As you can see in my paintings I do strive for detail. There is not much left up to the imagination. I try to paint them in their natural habitat capturing a piece of the environment. A rotting or knurled tree trunk, a snow covered pine branch, colorful autumn leaves or a classic white birch trunk, all add a little more interest to the portrait of the birds. I hope you enjoy my menagerie of birds native to New England and the detail and realistic setting I have chosen to enhance my paintings.
Welcome to my art gallery
I love the outdoors and have always been interested in nature, wild life and the wilderness. I enjoy hiking, biking, and canoeing. Having always been interested in photography, I try to capture creative nature shots whenever I see them. A lot of my photos are macro photography, mushrooms and flowers are some of my favorite subjects, although I do take some waterscapes & landscapes as well.
I also do some wood carving (birds) but have not been able to spend a lot of time in that pursuit. I have carved a duck, a chickadee, and have started but not yet finished a loon. I hope to allocate more time for that once I retire.
