Rob O'Dell - Artist Info

About Rob O'Dell

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    "Watercolor artist Rob O'Dell earns Slodounik award, by Donnette Beckett, Herad & Review, newspaper, Decatur, Illinois, July 5, 2017

    DECATUR — For more than 40 years, Rob O'Dell has been creating images of quiet, rural life in his watercolor paintings.
    His work has earned him numerous awards, which now include the Herb Slodounik Artistic Merit Award.
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    The annual award is given to local patrons, teachers or students of the arts in memory of Slodounik, an award-winning Herald & Review photographer who passed away July 23, 1998.

    Educated at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, O'Dell worked as a commercial artist following art school and showed his paintings on the weekends. He found more su...

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