Michigan resident David Westerfield attended Wayne State University in Detroit majoring in art before transfering to North Park College in Chicago. There he earned a BA in Art with a concentration in drawing and painting and was given the Senior Art Award. Other study has included the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Sedona Art Center in Arizona. He has also attended plein air painting workshops with Marcia Burtt and Randall Sexton.
After graduating David began a career in graphic design
and illustration which has stretched more than thirty years. His illustration credits include The Saturday Evening Post, The Covenant Companion, and many other editorial and corporate publications. He also illustrated a series of eight step-by-step drawing books for children in the Draw It series published by Heinemann Library.
In recent years David transitioned from commercial art
to his renewed interest in fine arts. He paints both in the studio and on location, regularly traveling to favorite spots in Michigan, California, Florida, and Hawaii.
2022 Art in Embassies, U.S. State Dept. —
Selected for exhibit in NATO Ambassador’s Residence, Brussels, Belgium
2021 Paint Grand Traverse — AWARD OF RECOGNITION
2021 Northport Art Association Plein Air paint-out —
SECOND PLACE AWARD
2019 Glen Arbor Art Center Plein Air paint-out —
FIRST PLACE AWARD
2019 Northport Art Association Plein Air paint-out —
SECOND PLACE AWARD
2019 Leland Air plein air event
2018 Glen Arbor Art Center Plein Air paint-out —
FIRST PLACE, QUICK PAINT
2018 Leland Air — plein air event, Leland, MI —
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
2017 Artwork selected for the Lahaina (Maui) 2018 poster
2017 Glen Arbor Art Association Plein Air paint-out —
SHARED PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
2017 Northport Art Association Plein Air paint-out
2016 Artwork selected for the 2017 Manitou Music
Festival poster
2016 Glen Arbor Art Association Plein Air paint-out —
SECOND PLACE AWARD
2016 Leland Air — plein air event, Leland, MI —
BEST IN SHOW AWARD
2016 Northport Art Association Plein Air paint-out
2015 Glen Arbor Art Association Plein Air paint-out
2015 Oliver Art Center, Frankfort, MI, Member juried exhibit
2015 Leland Air – plein air event, Leland, MI —
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
2014 Artwork selected for the Port Oneida Fair poster
2014 Glen Arbor Art Association Plein Air paint-out
2014 Leland Air — plein air event, Leland, MI
2013 Glen Arbor Art Association Plein Air paint-out
2013 Fishtown—Leeland, MI, Plein Air- —
SECOND PLACE AWARD
2013 Gallery 50, Traverse City, Down on the Farm show —
BEST USE OF LIGHT AWARD
2013 Solo show Center Gallery, Glen Arbor, MI
2013 Carmel Art Festival juried plein air event
2013 The Art of Sleeping Bear Dunes — painting selected for book and Denos Museum exhibit, Traverse City, MI
2012 Paint America, Top 100 traveling exhibit —
Coutts Museum, El Dorado, KS
2012 Glen Arbor Art Association Plein Air paint-out —
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD,
QUICK-PAINT FIRST PLACE AWARD
2012 Glen Arbor Art Association Artist in Residence
2012 Laguna Plein Air Painters Association
Juried ‘Less is More’ Exhibit
2011 Artwork selected for the 2012 Manitou Music
Festival poster
2011 Laguna Plein Air Painters Association
Juried ‘Best of Plein Air’ Exhibit
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