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About Phil Hanks

Phil Hanks was educated in northern California by Sacramento photo-realists, Ken Waterstreet, Gary Pruner, and Ralph Goings. For more than 40 years Phil has been painting with oils in the American realist tradition of Edward Hopper, Wayne Thiebaud, and Norman Rockwell. Phil’s goal is to be creative and experimental by painting contemporary portraits with contemporary colors for a contemporary look. Above all, Phil has an uncanny ability to create a truly striking likeness of any subject. With vivid colors, striking flesh tones, and stop-action motion, Phil’s paintings garner the attention of the room. A viewer closely inspecting the paintings will find the surfaces of particular interest with perceivable brush strokes and colors craftily blended without becoming “muddied.”

Artist's Statement:

Simply put, a painting is just an artist's palette manipulated and arranged to his/her will. The ultimate goal is to relate and communicate my thoughts and emotions to the viewer.

I choose to paint recognizable subject matter using lights, darks and hyped/rich coler, while also displaying artistic craftsmanship and skill.

Artist Phil Hanks painting a child's portrait

Awards:

1989 Honored at Banquet, Los Angeles Dodgers 65 Roses Club

1986 Orange County Fair, Third Place

1975 Northern California Arts Annual; Third Place; Robert Bechtle, Judge

Commissions:

Capitol City Health Club, Sacramento, California: Nine body builder portraits

Blue Sky Land and Cattle Company, Richmond, Texas

Steiner Lumber Company, Roseville, California

Numerous personal portraits

Published Works:

Front Cover Artwork, 1990 Dodger Blue Book, Babe Herman Biography, & 1989 Dodger Blue Book

Lithograph Published, "Mark McGwire" in 1988

Pictorial Articles in Dodger Blue, Baseball Card News, painting featured in LA Mercury Magazine.