![]() Since I wrote an article featuring Pletan for Collector's Quest, I'm often asked what the value of a Pletan work is. The format is always "Pletan (year)", making his artwork and its year of creation extremely easy to determine. If the painting had already dried, Pletan would add a smear of fresh paint to scratch his name in. ![]() Later works are 'messier,' due to shaky hands, but retained his signature style of painting.Īll Pletan's paintings I've seen, his signature is quite large, in one of the lower corners, and is drawn by dragging the blunt end of a paintbrush through wet paint. Pletan's earlier works contained greater detail than his later works, due to his deteriorating coordination. The size of Pletan's paintings depended only on the miscellaneous cuts of Masonite canvases, which resulted in his paintings being almost universally non-standard in size. This makes his various paintings almost indistinguishable, except for close scrutiny of the small details.īy reducing brushstrokes to a minimum and sticking to familiar subjects, Pletan was able to produce paintings at a breakneck speed, from five to ten minutes for an average sized (around 16" x 24") painting. By not expanding his repetoire of subjects, Pletan's art was a rote process with creative flairs on a smaller scale, such as the positioning of trees and deer. Nearly all include some sort of fauna, mostly deer but occasionally a person. Pletan's artwork relies on a few standard vignettes, usually a mountain lake, a snowy mountain pass, or a desert river. ![]() Still, Pletan's art has an certain "outsider art" appeal, as his style is immediately recognizeable, and his 'how to' video has taught imitators his craft. The style is amateurish compared to finer art, looking somewhat like a student of the Bob Ross school of art but painted with a 4" brush held in the fist. Drying acrylic paints) creates an expressionistic fluid motion in his art. ![]()
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