Keith Stinnett

About Keith Stinnett

Artist Bio: 

My name is Keith Stinnett and I have had a lifelong appreciation for art. I can remember trying to draw a full human figure at approximately age seven. My first initiation to an actual art education began in Jr. High and High School. My High School art teacher allowed me the flexibility to explore through painting and drawing. This created a desire to journey further into art education. The art education journey ended with a BFA from UT at Austin in 1983, but the desire to create art did not end there.

Life happened after graduation from UT with a wife, family and career to support all. While I continued to create in different ways such as gardening, cooking, drawing periodically, woodworking, etc., I did not produce art consistently for many years. Looking back now, I consider this a time that I was gathering my 'idea portfolio' for the art that was to come later.

At retirement, I had more time, freedom and space to begin to gnaw a bit on my 'ideas portfolio'. My wife and I spent countless hours at estate sales buying art of others, in art museums/shows admiring art of others all along I would start/stop the production of art via woodworking, furniture renovation/building, drawing, and even a bit of painting. I can now see three pivotal events that moved me more firmly into to the realm of creating and selling art.

The first event was an offer to create a painting for the Pop Art museum in 2019. I was a bit hesitant, but I always love a good problem to solve and creating art had become a passion now and not just a hobby. I created the San Angelo Rodeo painting in the Pop Art Museum and the need to create was now firmly entrenched. I then attempted three pieces to sell at the last Stribling Art Show (woodwork and painting). I sold two paintings of Buffalo Soldiers. Not only was this now a passion, but I might also be able to make some money to buy paints! Then the pandemic hit (second pivotal event). With virtual all shut down, including art shows, etc., for a year and a half, I was home with my family day in and day out. Needless to say, you can only mow the lawn, feed the goats and pick the garden so much. To quiet my restless nature, I began to paint with acrylics and soon set up my 'art studio' in my barn. I have not looked back.

Third pivotal event was the blessing of having very creative children and grandchildren who braved the world of art entrepreneurship by creating and selling their style of art at the Chicken Farm Art Shows once the pandemic subsided. Along with my wife, who said "we have no more room for your art", my kids and grandkids gently coaxed me into selling art with them at First Saturdays. The rest is history really. We had a booth at First Saturdays for approximately a year while also beginning to work on reaching out to other venues and ways to display and sell the art. In January/February 2022, I sold my first original art to three different customers and my first commission. I now had some seed money to think about beginning an art business. Tres Duce was born. I established Tres Duce legally in March 2022 with my daughter Sarah as the Social Media and Marketing Manager. We would not be where we are today without her skill and ability in this area! Because neither Sarah nor I care one whit about the money, finance, tax aspect of a business, my wife Elizabeth agreed to take that role on for Tres Duece. What amazes and gratifies me the most is that this is all volunteer work because they believe in me and my art that much. We now have a studio at Chicken Farm (Studio One) with consistent studio hours.

Our next step is to grow our market reach, attend more out of area art shows and find a gallery or two to partner with. What ever the future holds, one thing remains true for me....creating.

Creativity and creation have been a core passion of mine for as long as I can remember. Creating gives me purpose, a problem to solve. While selling art is very gratifying, I would still need to create regardless of sales! Creating art that captures the beauty and wonder in our world is exhilarating to me and sharing that with others makes it even better! My greatest hope is that those who interact with us at Tres Deuce, through whatever venue, will find inspiration to continue enjoying art and maybe even begin creating their own style of art to spread the beauty and wonder they see!

" I would rather die of passion than of boredom."- Vincent Van Gogh

"Every artist dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."- Henry Ward Beecher

Mediums: Acrylic and mixed media. Print making.

Commissions:  *commission contact thru social media incl. ‘chat’ on website or Sarah @325-763-9355

 *price range—$2 square inch plus $100 for Keith to frame

Contact:

Phone: 3257639355 or Elizabeth @325-456-1966

Email: tresduece58@gmail.com

Website: www.tresdueceart.com

Payment Methods:

Paypal

Venmo

By mail: 415 W Twohig Ave, Apt 2A San Angelo, TX 76903