A.D. Cook Fine Art

About A.D. Cook Original Art

A.D. has worked as a professional artist and designer since 1980 and is best known for his award-winning series of photo-realistic motorcycle-inspired paintings, and for the dozens of large murals showcasing movie stars and celebrities that he created for the Hollywood Video stores during his five years. A.D.’s focus is on creating realistic large-scale paintings tastefully showcasing the female form. These paintings are typically created life-size and larger.

Art is about passion, vision and talent, which you may experience first-hand on ADCookFineArt.com. This web site provides a visual exploration into the dramatic images delicately and carefully captured forever on each large canvas.

A.D.’s original paintings are hard to appreciate by simply visiting a web site. His paintings are dramatic in size, quality, texture and impact. They can be enjoyed from across the room or from just inches away. They’re realistic to the point of being illusionary, yet stylized enough to be interesting. They are true creative expressions of the artist, in amazing detail.

We take an “old-school, hands-on” approach to everything we do here. We take a pride in what we do, and the art that bears A.D.’s signature. We firmly believe that hand made art is essential, as are quality and craftsmanship.

Technically Speaking…
A highly skilled photographer in his own right, A.D. works from his own photo reference, collaborating with models to achieve the precise imagery in his vision.

A.D.’s original works are typically painted in acrylics on specially-prepared slate-smooth canvas – museum-wrapped with 1-1/2″ stretcher bars. Many layers of gesso are hand-worked into the canvas material and then meticulously wet-sanded to create a glass-smooth surface. The canvas is then sprayed to prime the surface for art. Details on canvas prep can be read on this site by clicking here.

Finally, The art! Only after the surface is perfect, does A.D. begin a painting. A lot of work and time goes into preparing a canvas, especially when you consider the size of most originals. But with as much as has gone into preparing the canvas for art, it’s still just the beginning. Any given painting may take hundreds of hours at the easel. But this is the exciting part – the creative part. With each hour the painting grows and evolves to reveal the passion and beauty of the chosen piece. For A.D., this is what it’s all about – the process of creating beautiful art that truly captures his vision and passion.

Finished paintings are treated with special UV resistant varnish to protect the art and ensure a life-time of enjoyment and value. Different paintings receive different finishes, but typically figurative originals receive a satin finish, and paintings of mechanical items (like motorcycles) get a glossier finish (this isn’t a hard rule, just a general guide for viewing the site).

All this preparation and finish work provides for an extremely smooth painting – especially for canvas art. The outside edges are painted to compliment the art. Unless otherwise noted all original art is sold unframed, however all visible edges are finished and each painting is ready to hang.

All original art represented on this site is created by A.D. Cook. We’re proud to offer many of these original works of art for sale. Please feel free to contact us with any questions regarding paintings or any items on this site. If you’d like to purchase any original art or discuss commissioned artwork, please visit our contact page.

All prices are F.O.B., Las Vegas, Nevada USA, and do not include framing or shipping.

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