3D Geo

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3D Geo 1 _ sideviewI love painting and drawing geometric shapes!  I’ve been working in this style as far back as grade school.  The hard lines, sharp points, and perfect circles are just sexy.  No way around that.  I wanted the images to jump off the canvas with both color and depth, so I began building the canvases out with birch wood for the dimensional layer, taking the works from 2D to 3D.  I painted the backgrounds with darker tones, to help push the image further forward.  This effect gives the feel of the images jumping off the canvas.  As great as they look from the front view, the side angles shows off all the hard work and details and gives additional interest to the works.

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Forgotten Era

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forgotteneralostdreamsby Rachelle Clark

Living in Portland with family in Montana, I am often traveling through open countryside and desolate landscapes. It makes me nostalgic for the cotton fields and hay bales I left behind in Alabama. The rusted farm equipment left on the side of the road and the dusty dirt roads that lead off to back fields reminds me of a simpler type of life; a life I often forget when caught up in the noise and traffic of a city. Continue reading →

Autumn Scenes

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autumnscenesletitfallby Rachelle Clark

There was a painting of a river flowing through a Fall landscape, with autumn leaves floating in it that hung above our dining room table when I was a child. My brothers and I always tried to grab the leaves out of that painted river. To our imaginations it seemed possible.

I hope to evoke that same sense of possible tangibility for those that view these images.

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Surrealism

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countrystyle1by Shawn Christopher

Do you remember Dr. Seuss? I do. The Whosits, fuzzy trees, and staircases that wind up, only to turn into a pole that slides down. I think as we grow up, welose our imagination. You know, that thing that makes a stick into a light saber, or a cardboard box into a castle. When I look into the work, I wonder how cool it would be to live in Dr. Seuss’ world. You see, I never lost my imagination. It still runs wild.

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Techna Floral

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Techna Floral (6)By Rachelle Clark

Using a toning process that tones the black of the image, without effecting the highlights, I was able to take close ups of floral images and adjust the black and white prints to reveal a Technicolor side of their intent.  Framed in antique windows to give a country style garden feel to the works.

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Abstract Painting

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parkavenueby Shawn Christopher

Welcome to my free flow, kung foo style of painting. Where there is no up or down, no right or wrong. If you paint outside the line, it was meant to be outside the line. When I paint this way, I first select the colors for contrast and harmony. That.s about the extent of my planning. I just put the brush down and go. Creating the background and then the first lines of movement to give it structure. Only later putting the highlights and embellishments to make it pop. Continue reading →

Textures

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texture50by Shawn Christopher “Textures” is a collection of 3-d paintings on wood. The use of color and texture enlivens the imagination to an array of possibilities. While the deeper tones may get lost in the background under normal circumstances, Shawn pushes these colors to the forefront, so that they are the first to be noticed. This project challenges the boundaries of painting versus sculpture, for the two schools of thought have merged within the same tangent. Continue reading →

Body Landscapes

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bodylandscapes1by Rachelle Clark

For one who gets lost in the aesthetics of a jaw line for hours.

This is a thirteen piece series, consisting of high contrast, single light source, close up nudes. The concept being to imitate the sun’s effect of texture in light and shadow on sand dunes and rolling hills with the human form to display the true beauty of human contours.

The centerpiece of this series is a collage comprised of roughly seventy photos arranged to create one human form engulfed in all possible settings.

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Ode to Roger

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odetoroger5Sculpture by Shawn Christopher

I fell in love with nature and machines at a young age.

Strange I know, but you see, my father was a logger, and I was his shadow. Learning about Mother Nature and machinery just kinda went hand and hand with my father.

In this project, the two became intertwined.

I owe a lot to my father. The least I could do was honor him with my art. View the entire collection here. Ode to Roger.

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