Still Life & Paint Cans

Paint Cans Squared, acrylic on canvas on bars, 13" x 14"                                                       &nb

Paint Cans Squared, acrylic on canvas on bars, 13" x 14"
Private Collection

Paint Cans Red Devil, acrylic on canvas, 14 1/4" x 15", 2005

Paint Can Blue Singleton, acrylic on canvas on bars, 21" x 11 1/4"

Paint Cans, Red Corner, acrylic on canvas, 13" x 18", Private Collection

Paint Cans Table Top, acrylic on canvas, 26 1/2" x 35 1/2", Bates College Museum of Art

Paint Cans Jumbled, acrylic on canvas, 13 1/2" x 21 1/4"

Paint Cans & Brush, Sears, acrylic on canvas, 12 1/2" x 21 1/2"
Collection of the University of Maine

Paint Cans in Black & White, acrylic on paper, 21 1/2" x 29", 2007

Paint Can Split Yin Yang, acrylic on canvas, 21" x 38", 2007

Paint Cans Pink & Blue, acrylic on canvas,20" x 22 1/2"

Tuff Stuff, acrylic on canvas, 12 1/2" x 24", 2002

Still life with Coffee Maker, acrylic on linen, 13" x 29 1/2"

Still Life Mugs & Water Bottle, acrylic on canvas, 26 1/4" x 40 1/4"

Still Life with Pitchers & Lamp, acrylic on canvas, 27"x 46"

Anacostia Water Pitcher (blue), watercolor & gouache, 16" x 24", 2002

Finding an appeal in the ordinary, Val Lewton thrilled to the challenge of creating beautiful paintings from the colorful paint cans strewn on his cluttered workbench. The palette of colors was a reminder of the latest design projects, the primed canvases, and the household projects of a consummately busy man. Other familiar materials served in his quest to demonstrate the beauty in the simple things around us. Common objects found on a kitchen countertop, the family table, or a studio shelf, with the help of his unfailing eye for composition and color, were painted as a still life.