William Amptman
A Native of Pennsylvania, William Amptman studied at the Art Students League and The School of Visual Art in New York. He worked a variety of jobs, but primarily as a freelance commercial artist before making the transition to fine art. His drawings and paintings are in many private and corporate collections.
I began doing pencil drawings as preliminary studies for oils and, over time, the studies became more elaborate and finally evolved into independent works.
Each drawing begin with a number of compositional studies on site and then is developed in the studio. I return to the site any number of times during the drawing process.
Most of the drawings are realistic descriptions of a particular place; a few are composite and inventions. In my work, I feel most influenced by Edward Hopper, Richard Diebenkorn and Faifield Porter.