Andrea Moreau

Mauritania (Hyenas): Detailed Colored Pencil Sub-Saharan Drawing & Unique Stamp

2017

Hummingbird Augury (Circular Cobalt Blue Pastel Drawing of Golden Hummingbird and Stars on Indian Handmade Cotton Paper by Kahn & Selesnick) 11 inch diameter unframed pastel, conte c...

Poland (Glider) by Andrea Moreau colored pencil and postage stamp on paper 22 x 30 inches 25.25 x 32.5 inches framed To create her mixed-media artworks, Andrea Moreau selects a postage stamp to serve as the starting point for a piece on paper, then “completes” the image with colored pencil. This artwork, "Poland (Glider)," centers on a stamp that depicts an aircraft flying above a glacial horizon. Building on the style and environment established by the stamp art, Moreau extended this scene across land and sea in vibrant blue pencil. A statement by the artist: My drawings function as personal interpretations of political or commercial propaganda. I begin with imagery found on postage stamps or printed advertisements and, using the visual logic and graphic language of the image, I attempt to tease out a larger framework from which to consider it. Finished pieces often incorporate printed matter and cultural detritus, which gives them an immediate and tactile connection to the world of objects. I am particularly interested in the postage stamp as a geographical artifact, and through my drawing process I attempt to learn something about a place by studying its official imagery and then creating a world beyond the borders of its fragmentary scenes. The finished drawings and paintings are a record of this study; they are a dialogue between the printed and the drawn, the official and the personal, the real and the imaginary. They are a metaphor for the way in which we conjure the places we hear about on the news and read about in books, using the tiniest pieces of information to construct a reality that most likely bears little resemblance to any actual place. Andrea Moreau’s mixed-media works, on the other hand, walk a tightrope between context and isolation. Moreau selects a postage stamp to serve as the starting point for a piece on paper, then “completes” the image with colored pencil. These stamps may become lost in a frenzy of Moreau’s mark-making, as with “Mexico (Flowers) #15,” or left comically obvious, like in “USA (Barbershop...

Tunisia, Red Trees: Colored Pencil Drawing & Unique Stamp by Andrea Moreau colored pencil and postage stamp on paper 11 x 11 inches 15 x 15 inches framed Artist Statement: My drawin...

Raven Reads the Lines (Chalk Drawing of Black Bird on Vintage Book Pages) by Louise Laplante chalk on vintage collaged book pages. Artwork measures ...

Bucolic Scene is a beautiful original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper realized by the Austrian master Oskar Kokoschka, with monogram and autograph ...

“Anne Weary, who grew up as a Texas cowgirl, is at home in the outdoors and knows its ways and its language. There is a sort of very quiet but very powerful mysticism in her work, a ...

Adonna Khare is an America Artist mainly focused on carbon pencil on paper drawings. She received her Masters of Fine Art from California State University Long Beach. Her work has be...

Puffins [2016] Original Landscapes and seascapes Graphite on paper Image size: H:42.2 cm x W:29.7 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:42.2 cm x W:29.7 cm x D:0.2cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Puffins, A study of Puffins on a rocky outcrop at Bempton Cliffs, North Yorkshire. Original photographs taken by myself. David Truman...