Herb Roe

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Herb Roe
Born1974
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
EducationApprenticeship to Robert Dafford [1]
Known for Oil painting, Murals

Herb Roe (born 1974) is a painter of large-scale outdoor murals and classical realist oil paintings. [2] After attending the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio for a short time, he apprenticed to mural artist Robert Dafford. [3] After 15 years with Dafford Murals, Roe left to pursue his own art career. [4] He currently resides in Lafayette, Louisiana.

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Biography

Roe was in born 1974 in Portsmouth, Ohio. He spent his childhood across the Ohio River in Greenup County, Kentucky, but moved to Portsmouth while in his teens. [5] In 1992 he received a scholarship to the Columbus College of Art and Design [6] in Columbus, Ohio and attended his freshman year there in 1992 to 1993. [7]

In the summer of 1993 he met the Louisiana mural artist Robert Dafford when he started a mural project in Portsmouth. Roe subsequently apprenticed to and worked for Dafford for 15 years. [8] During that time Roe worked on Dafford mural projects in Portsmouth, Ohio; [9] Paducah, [10] [11] Maysville, [12] and Covington, Kentucky, [13] New Orleans, Louisiana; [5] Vicksburg, Mississippi; [14] and Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Subjects painted by Roe as a Dafford muralist include Native American history, [15] early settlers such as Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton, [10] Carnegie Libraries, [16] industries such as river barges [15] and hospitals, [17] labor unions, [18] African-American heritage, [14] and local notables such as Rosemary Clooney. [12] In May 2003 he was photographed painting the Lewis and Clark Expedition mural in Paducah by photographer Jim Roshan as part of the America 24/7 project. The image was used in Roshan's book Kentucky24/7 published in 2004. [19] Roe was the only Dafford muralist to work on all of the Paducah murals, completing several of them entirely by himself. [10]

In 2007 Roe left Dafford Murals to pursue his own commissions and devote more time to his own artwork under the name ChromeSun Productions Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine . [20] In 2009 he collaborated with Dafford on a poster project for the Zydeco Cajun Prairie Scenic Byway, in which he did the preliminary digital painting for the design. The year-long project highlights many local spots of interest. [21]

In 2010, Roe painted two new murals in Paducah and Vicksburg. In July, he painted Evening Roll Call in Paducah, a mural depicting the 100-year history of local Boy Scouts of America Troop 1. The mural was dedicated on National Scouting Sunday February 6, 2011 with a parade and other festivities. [22] In the fall of 2010, Roe teamed up with another former Dafford muralist, Benny Graeff, to paint the 55-foot "Run Thru History" mural in Vicksburg, Mississippi. [23] [24] Roe's current artwork focuses on the traditional southwestern Louisiana Cajun celebration of the Courir de Mardi Gras. It is a series of hyper-realistic depictions of costumed celebrants playing music, dancing on the backs of horses, and chasing after chickens. [2] [25]

Work

Techniques and style

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Mural detail on Clark Athletic Complex

Roe conducts extensive research to develop his works and shows acute attention to detail. [26] They are typically started as Adobe Photoshop sketches, [3] often based on models and surroundings he has lighted and digitally photographed. [2] His compositions are often influenced by classical art, and he cites European artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth century Michelangelo, Peter Paul Rubens, [3] and Caravaggio as major influences. [5] For his historical murals, he will often pick a particular artist or illustrator from the time period he is depicting to emulate; thereby he can stylistically invoke the era. [11] After the composition is decided upon, he transfers it to the painting surface either by scaling the design and doing a grid transfer or with an overhead projector. [3] He paints the murals either with industrial acrylic enamels or the longer lasting silicate mineral paints. [3] His oil paintings are done in a classical realist style, and subjects include portraiture, photo-realist abstract compositions, and historical illustration. [4] These oil paintings may contain from three to 20 layers, from underpainting to the final colored glazes. [2]

Roe also does conservation work on murals. [1]

Exhibits

Murals

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Mural in entry way at Portsmouth High School

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