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 Lou Pasqua has never been one to rush things. A single painting can take over a year to complete, as he returns to it days or even weeks later, adding new details his eye did not see before. He became a full-time sporting artist in his 40s, after a 20-year career in another field. From the beginning, he held himself to a high standard, refusing to show his work in galleries until he believed he had reached a certain level of talent.
“Had I done some earlier pieces and somebody said ‘That looks good,’ and maybe they were able to sell it, I might have gotten locked into something I wasn’t ready for yet. But for me, I had a goal I stuck to,” says Pasqua, a Pittsburgh resident. “I was mature enough to know what I wanted to do, and not just because I had to. I think it worked out for me.”
 SEWE Features “Little Havoc”
That much is clear in the galleries that immediately embraced his work, the countless sporting magazine covers his art has adorned, and now his selection as Featured Artist for the 37th Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE), to be held Feb. 15-17. His painting “Little Havoc” — displaying a Boykin spaniel bounding through the brush to flush a covey of quail — has been selected as the Exposition’s Featured Painting and is the subject of the official 2019 SEWE poster.
“It kind of confirms that the work I’m doing is legitimate,” Pasqua said of the honor. “I work by myself in my basement, and there are days when I’m wondering, ‘Am I doing the right thing?’ There are those times when nothing seems to go right. This kind of confirms that even though you may have your...”
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