Table of contents:
- The beginning of the beautiful
- Awakening and recognition
- How an artist creates his masterpieces
- Family of fishermen
Video: How a simple fisherman could look under the water and became famous for his paintings all over the world
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Fishing is a hobby that many people from different countries are passionate about. A native of Maryland, Mark Susinno is one of them, but differs from other fishermen in that he not only catches fish, but captures it in his paintings. The artist paints aquatic inhabitants so realistically that it seems as if you are looking at them through the window of a bathyscaphe, plunging into the sea or river depths. Especially his works attract fishermen who saw the same trout “live”. The artist himself frankly admitted that if it were not for his favorite business - fishing and outdoor recreation, he would never have been able to truly draw the underwater world.
The beginning of the beautiful
As a child, Marco very often watched his mother Maria draw. As the woman herself explains, she did it for pleasure, and only a few years later she applied her talent in practice and became a jewelry designer. The atmosphere of creativity has always reigned in the Sussino house. Therefore, the boy grew up with a pencil in his hand. He made his first drawings in kindergarten, and when he went to school, he began to paint in oils. Marco also owes his talent to realistically depicting the world he has seen. She inspired him not to be afraid to express his thoughts on canvas and explained how to truly become a young artist. In the fourth grade, Susinno sold his first painting, which depicted a beautiful house. Having received the first money for his work, he was even more inspired to write new paintings. During his studies in high school, Marco Sussino sold several more of his first works.
Each year the boy participated in large exhibitions from the school and, thanks to his diligence and talent, earned a four-year scholarship to study at the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. In 1979, Sussino received his BA from the Pratt Institute and has received many awards for excellence in teaching.
It would seem that with such a talent and education, you can immediately rush "battle". But life turned out so that for another three years the "newly-made" artist did not take a pencil and paints in his hands. To live on something, the young man had to move back to his home state of Maryland and get a job at a construction company, where he was engaged in the production of bulletproof doors. Every day he went to work in the morning and came home only in the evening. All day Marco stayed “within four walls” without seeing the beauty of the surrounding world, and his muse “slept”.
Awakening and recognition
The awakening of a talented artist happened thanks to his brother Byron, who was an avid fisherman. Marco also loved this business, but due to lack of time he rarely visited nature. In 1984, Byron invited him on a fishing trip and asked him to draw a brown trout. This case was so carried away by Marco that he again took up the brushes. Over the next two years, he painted several more paintings, mostly using acrylics.
Susinno started participating in art competitions sponsored by the state and won 6 of them in 3 years. In 1986, he won the Maryland Trout Brand Competition, and in 1988 and 1989 the Indiana Trout Brand Competition. He won the 1989 Kentucky and Delaware stamp competitions, and his painting graced the 1989 Chesapeake Bay sport fishing brand.
Since then, he has specialized in underwater painting of freshwater and saltwater fish and fly fishing scenes. Along the way, Susinno added 20 more commercial brands to its list, including the 1991 Pennsylvania trout / salmon brand and the 2005 Texas freshwater fish brand in Texas.
His work has been featured nationally in various magazines including Art of Angling Journal, Gray's Sports Magazine, Sporting Classics, Field & Stream, Sports Afield, Fishing World, Fly Fisherman and many more. Susinno's works have also been published in the following books: "Advanced Fly Fishing Techniques" and "The Ultimate Guide to Fly Fishing" by Lefty Krech, "Step by Step Painting by Patrick Seslar", "Ode to Bass and Trout" by Alan J. Robinson, "and many others. …
How an artist creates his masterpieces
Marco Susinno admits that he would never have drawn a “live” fish if he himself were not a fisherman: “I am a fisherman, and this fact influences the way I approach the creation of paintings, depicting fish on them … I like to reflect the feeling of light and spaces in shallow water environments, but I also feel the need to present the fish in a way that is recognizable to the average fisherman, who is most familiar with how the fish looks when out of water."
Usually the artist paints pictures in his home. The windows of his workshop overlook the forest and it is always filled with sunlight. Despite the busyness, Susinno always finds time to sit on the bank of the stream and fish. After all, he takes all the ideas for the canvas from his personal experience.
Usually, it takes an artist from 2 to 7 or more days to create a painting. Most often, Susinno works with several paintings at once.
Family of fishermen
Surprisingly, Marco Susinno married a woman who loves fly fishing as much as he does. It was with her that the artist traveled around many reservoirs, in which the happy couple caught not a single trout. Marco has his own boat and a digital camera for photography. When spouses are busy fishing, time stops for them: they can sit for hours on the banks of a river or stream.
Once, while relaxing on the legendary waters of Oak Orchard Creek in upstate New York, which is home to brown lake trout, Roxana and Susinno caught a beautiful brown trout of about 4 kilograms. It was a real "goldfish" for the artist, as he was looking for just such for a future painting. Using a digital camera, he photographed the fish swimming freely in the water. She was beautiful and literally asked for a canvas. Subsequently, the picture of brown trout became the “face” of one brand for the production of products from this fish.
Today Marco Susinno lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and his incredibly naturalistic paintings of underwater fish continue to delight people, especially “fishermen” - after all, they were painted by a fisherman.
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