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Steve Craighead began his portrait career while still in his teens. As a young man, he traveled throughout the United States and Canada, sketching and painting hundreds of portraits. He became adept at capturing a realistic likeness of his subjects in a short amount of time, all the while refining his artistic concepts and drawing techniques.
Mr. Craighead furthered his art education by attending the National Academy of Design in New York City, the Cape School of Art in Massachusetts, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Maryland studio of distinguished portrait painter Cedric Egeli.
Mr. Craighead maintains a very active schedule painting portraits of children, families, and leaders in the corporate, educational, political, and business worlds.
He has enjoyed meeting many distinguished people throughout his career. Ethel Kennedy was especially complimentary when he painted two of her grandchildren at Hickory Hill. Governor James Gilmore was a patient subject during the posing of his official portrait that hangs in the State Capitol Building of Virginia. His travels have taken him to Hollywood where he is working on portraits for a movie actor and to England where he painted portraits for gentlemen from the financial world. Reproductions of his portraits have been seen in the Artist Magazine, American Artist, and the International Artist. Mr. Craighead’s portraits have won honors, 1st honors, and second place at successive Portrait Society of America competitions.
Mr. Craighead maintains a studio in old town Manassas, Virginia and lives nearby with his wife Susan, who is also a portrait painter, and their young son.