David G Maynard artist

About David 

I received my Bachelor of Fine Art from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in 1981 with a concentration in commercial art, painting, and drawing. Over the years my art took a backseat to my full-time occupation as the Executive Director of a Christian youth summer camp and retreat center, located in southwest, Ohio, but my creativity did not. Utilizing my creative talents, I enjoyed creating camp programs that would not only excite children's imaginations, but teach them a skill and challenge them mind, body, soul, and spirit. I also used my creativity in developing unique housing units for the kids that included a teepee village, converted school buses and metro buses into housing units, bungalos. Creative design was implemented when building a camouflaged 40-ft. climbing tower, paintball fields with forts and bunkers, a 500-ft zipline off an 80-ft. cliff. These camp programs were recognized other youth camps as being very unique and creative.

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In 2014, I left the youth camp and had more time to return to my passion of drawing and painting. Since then, I have won several purchase awards and juried art shows and have received several painting commissions. I now teach in-house painting classes at Michael’s, Hobby Lobby, and AC Moore in Dayton, Ohio.

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I have now developed a program that teaches those who want to learn how to paint or take their skills to another level while incorporating truths that help free a person from the blocks that stifle creativity.