The Artwork of Patrick Michael Karnahan

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Portrait Art

    Oil painter Patrick Michael Karnahan, a native Californian, has spent his lifetime capturing the Iron Horse on canvas. His first painting of the Sierra Railroad was painted at the age of eight. Currently he has painted over a thousand West Coast railroad portraits. Patrick is also well known as a landscape and portrait artist a skill he learned while living in Ireland. Recently his work has appeared in magazines such as Wildfire International and Narrow Gauge & Shortline Railroads.

    Examples of portrait artistry takes many forms and for Patrick those forms can be found in the portraits below.  To view samples of the Portrait Art created by Patrick, select any of the images below