Paul Heaston
Inspired by the work or artists Ed Ruscha and Mateo Pericoli, Paul Heaston sketched every building on Bozeman’s Main Street between Grand and Rouse Avenues, first facing north, then facing south, all in a 5 ½” x 3 ½” sketchbook. All the drawings were done on-site, from benches, a portable chair, or while standing. Between September 2008 and May 2009, Heaston worked through rain, snow and sleet, wasp stings and sunburns. He peered between parked cars and curious onlookers. The project includes more than 67 buildings, 109 cars and motorcycles, hundreds of windows and thousands of individual bricks.
Heaston was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1979. In 2005, he moved to Bozeman to pursue a Master’s degree in painting at Montana State University, which he completed in 2008. In addition to shows in Bozeman, Livingston, Butte and Miles City, Montana, Heaston has participated in shows in Texas, Oklahoma, and Italy. He has also worked as an illustrator, a caricature artist and as an art conservation and restoration specialist.
You can view his work online at www.paulheaston.com. He also keeps a sketchblog, Three Letter Word for Art, at www.paulheaston.blogspot.com, and is a correspondent for Urbansketchers.com.