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Jason Lee Tako

Jason Lee Tako (20/21st century) is active/lives in Pennsylvania, Minnesota.  Jason Tako is known for Wildlife.

With Jason's grandfather being a carpenter, and his father being an artist and carpenter, Jason also developed an interest in art at a young age. While growing up in rural Minnesota, he would spend hours in the wetlands and wooded areas sketching and observing the wildlife and nature that surrounded him. Jason soon became known by teachers and peers for his artistic abilities, and eventually won an award in a state-wide high school illustration competition.

During his senior year in high school, at the urging of some friends Jason switched his focus to learning music and electric bass. He then graduated from the McNally Smith College of Music with the Outstanding Bassist of the Year award. But ten years later, after realizing how much he missed being outdoors and recording his observations, Jason bought a sketchbook and headed back out to the woods and wetlands.

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Biography from Highlands Art Gallery

With Jason's grandfather being a carpenter, and his father being an artist and carpenter, Jason also developed an interest in art at a young age. While growing up in rural Minnesota, he would spend hours in the wetlands and wooded areas sketching and observing the wildlife and nature that surrounded him. Jason soon became known by teachers and peers for his artistic abilities, and eventually won an award in a state-wide high school illustration competition.

During his senior year in high school, at the urging of some friends Jason switched his focus to learning music and electric bass. He then graduated from the McNally Smith College of Music with the Outstanding Bassist of the Year award. But ten years later, after realizing how much he missed being outdoors and recording his observations, Jason bought a sketchbook and headed back out to the woods and wetlands.

There he painstakingly worked his way from pencil to watercolor while using nature and wildlife as his subject matter and teacher. Not long after, Jason went back to college and earned his degree in Applied Visual Arts and was encouraged by his teacher Bara Arens to pursue a career in fine art. Jason furthered his studies under renowned landscape artist Scott Christensen and a constant passion for plein air painting.

Direct experience is the primary inspiration for Jason's work which blends realism with painterly expression. Usually he seeks a location or subject matter that interests him and will create field studies on location (aka plein air paintings) and take photographs. Back in the studio this reference material is utilized to create a final painting. At other times Jason will complete a painting on location-alla prima, en plein air. Jason has a passion for the prairie wetlands, classic and rural architecture, waterfowl, and western wildlife.

Many of his paintings are from trips to his home state of Minnesota or out to Wyoming. Yet he will often be found painting locally where he and his wife raise their children in southern Pennsylvania. Jason's religious faith influences not only his views on life, but also on art. He often says he is really just plagiarizing the beauty that God has given to us. Since created beauty is ever in motion, and God is ever constant, Jason views art as trying to make ever-changing beauty ever-constant. In this way he hopes his art will lift the viewer to a contemplation higher than what is seen.

Awards:
Featured Artist at the Southeastern Wildlife Expo, 2020
Oil Painters of American 2019 Landscape Award of Excellence
1st Place-Plein Air Camp Hill 2015
Plein Air Magazine Award of Excellence-Plein Air Camp Hill 2015
Quick Draw People's Choice Award-Plein Air Camp Hill 2015
People’s Choice Award-Plein Air Camp Hill 2014
Honorable Mention-Plein Air Camp Hill 2014
Award of Excellence-NatureWorks Wildlife Art Show 2014
Utretch Award-Cumberland Society of Painters First Annual Exhibition 2013
2nd Place-Local Color Plein Air 2013
Quick Draw Honorable Mention-Plein Air Easton 2013
Quick Draw People’s Choice Award-Plein Air Camp Hill 2013
3rd Place-Plein Air Camp Hill 2013
2nd Place-Easels in Frederick 2012
Quick Draw Honorable Mention-Easels in Frederick 2012
1st Place Quick Draw Award-Plein Air Camp Hill 2012
People’s Choice Award-Plein Air Camp Hill 2012
Honorable Mention-Plein Air Camp Hill 2012
2nd Place-Mountain Maryland Plein Air 2012
Best of Show-Contemporary Fine Art International Miniature Juried Show, Fall 2011
Juror's Award-Paint the Parks 2011 Mini50
Western Art Collector Editor's Choice Award-51st Annual Art & the Animal Exhibition 2011, Society of Animal Artists
Vanishing Landscape Award-Plein Air Easton 2011
Best Architectural Painting-Plein Air Easton 2011
Grand Prize-Plein Air Camp Hill 2011
2nd Place Quick Draw Award-Plein Air Camp Hill 2011
2nd place VIP Best of Show-Waterfowl Festival 2010
2010 Recipient of the Evelyn & Peter Haller Distinguished Young Artist Award, by the Society of Animal Artists
Quick Draw Honorable Mention-Plein Air Easton 2010
Quick Draw Honorable Mention-Plein Air Easton 2007

Recent Shows & Exhibits:
2015 Door County Plein Air, Door County, WI
2014 Door County Plein Air, Door County, WI
2012-2014 NatureWorks Wildlife Art Show, Tulsa, OK
2013 Local Color Plein Air, Bucks County, PA
2012 NatureWorks Wildlife Art Show, Tulsa, OK
2012 Mountain Maryland Plein Air, Cumberland, MD
2012 Society of Animal Artists Annual Art & the Animal Exhibition, Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ
2011-2014 Plein Air Camp Hill, Camp Hill, PA
2007-2014 Southeastern Wildlife Expo, Charleston, SC
2005-2014 Waterfowl Festival, Easton, MD
2009-2014 History Meets the Arts, Gettysburg, PA
2009-2013 Plein-Air Easton, Easton, MD
2012 Easels in Frederick, Frederick, MD
2012 Plein Air Vermont, Bennington, VT
2011 Society of Animal Artists Annual Art & Animal Exhibition, Traverse City, MI
2011 Paint the Parks, St. Louis, MO
2010 Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival, Thomasville, GA

Memberships:
Society of Animal Artists-Signature Member
Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association-Associate Member

Articles:
Western Art Collector Magazine, March 2012
Plein Air Magazine, Winter 2011

Books:
100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic, Schiffer Publishing, 2014


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