Butch Krieger has been a full-time artist for over thirty years. For the first 18 of those years he was a television news artist, specializing in courtroom illustrations. His clientele included CBS Network News, CNN and PM Magazine, as well as the Associated Press, United Press International, USA Today and the German news magazine, Neue Review. Butch is now a portrait painter and sculptor, as well as a figure and tromp l’oeil still life painter .
As a painter, Butch Krieger uses modern adaptations of what is called "the old masters technique," which is also called "indirect technique." This is a method, in which one builds up a painting in accumulative layers of paint. Although very traditional in this sense, Butch takes full advantage of modern materials that the old masters did not have.
This element of traditionalism notwithstanding, Krieger is an alternative portraitist, and not restricted by stylistic convention. Like the portrait artists of Europe, he prefers to be innovative and eclectic. Butch chooses to do work that is different from the run-of-the-mill portraiture.
For his portraiture, Butch usually works from photos that he takes myself. He prefers to take the photographs out on location, where the sitter is more comfortable within his/her own environment. You can see examples of his portrait art on his website: www.butchkrieger.com.
Butch Krieger is also a writer and workshop instructor. He writes for Artist’s Magazine. (a Contributing Editor), Pastel Journal, Watercolor Magic, The Portrait Signature (the quarterly journal of the American Society of Portrait Artists) and for North Light Books.
Butch works from his studio in Port Angeles, WA. | 
