Larry Aarons

Prophet by Larry Aarons, "Gods, Prophets & Warriors" Drawing

Soft pastel on sandpaper. From Rachko’s newest series, Bolivianos. Upon a visit to the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, Rachko noticed an exhibit of historical...

The Black Paintings is a series of pastel-on-sandpaper paintings that use cultural objects as surrogates for human beings acting in mysterious, highly-charged narratives. In the Black Paintings the figures (actors) take central stage. All background details, furniture, rugs, etc. are eliminated and replaced by intense dark black pastel. Each painting takes months to complete as Barbara slowly layers and blends up to 30 layers of soft pastel. The idea for the Black Paintings began when I attended a jazz history course and learned how Miles Davis developed cool jazz from bebop. In bebop the notes were played hard and fast as musicians showcased their technical virtuosity. Cool jazz was a much more relaxed style with fewer notes, i.e., the music was pared down to its essentials. Similarly this series evolved from dense, complex visual compositions into paintings that depict only the essential elements—the actors. As the series evolves what is left out becomes increasingly more important, resulting in more demands being placed on the viewer. – Barbara Rachko

Oil on canvas, 2016 Realist oil painter, Jim Salvati, utilizes texture to add emotion and depth to his panels. His paintings usually depict a lone figure, but are not so much portraits as they are snapshots of emotion in a singular moment. Salvati revels in working with the internal friction of oil paint: “My paintings are extremely thick and layered. I can keep the colors moving until I like what they have done to the piece.” The results are abstract strokes finely calibrated to evoke realist impressions. "Bathing Cap" has been juried and exhibited at 2018-19 Naples Art...

Oil on canvas, 2017 Realist oil painter, Jim Salvati, utilizes texture to add emotion and depth to his panels. His paintings usually depict a lone figure, but are not so much portra...

For most of his artistic career, Dario Campanile, painted in a hyper-realistic style, where his imagery closely followed the crisp lines of photography. Recently, Campanile broke out...

"Oasis" is part of Montreal artist, M.M. Ciciovan's most captivating series of abstracts in on a square panel. Ciciovan approaches her canvases with palette knife over brush, while i...

Mary Carroll's (US based) "Incantation" is an original, handmade graphite drawing that depicts a female model sitting at the base of a tree. Artist Biography: Born in 1979 West Vir...

An original mixed media drawing by American artist A.J. Fries.

A fantastic industrial drawing dated 1935, which depicts the former Plymouth Motor Company's Powerhouse in Buffalo, NY. Housed in a contemporary frame presentation this unique work ...

An original contemporary graphite drawing by American contemporary female artist Amanda Besl. Diana's Field 2, 2018 Graphite on paper 34 × 24 in 86.4 × 61 cm This work was created ...

An original contemporary painting by American contemporary female artist Amanda Besl. Besl uses chemistry to create rust and copper inks. Wholesale framing is available. Througho...

Born in Szeged, Hungary, he became one of the better known and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, completing over 100 books. Among them are "A Treasury of Verse for Little Children," "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." He is probably best known for pen and ink drawings of mythology subjects geared towards children. He studied at Budapest Technical University and attended art schools in Munich and Paris before moving to London at age 23. In 1907, he began illustrating children's books and did a series of annual gift books...