Larry Lewis

Untitled (Lady in Red Dress) - Page from mixed media collage book

c. 1970

Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wry wit and fear...

With elements of surrealism and fantasy, this is a soft pastel painting on toned archival paper. It is part of an ongoing series of work by the artist depicting humorous observations...

oil on linen on mounted board outsider pastel on archival paper *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...

oil on linen on mounted board outsider pastel on archival paper *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...

Price and size includes frames (maple wood with white mats). Artwork 58" x 38" Her pastel-on-sandpaper series, "Domestic Threats" and "Black Paintings", both use cultural objects as surrogates for human beings acting in mysterious, highly charged narratives.[9][10] Rachko also has created a series of photographs entitled "Gods and Monsters".[11] In these chromogenic prints, she is "painting with a camera," creating variations that free the camera from being a mechanical recording device of what lies before it. She prints all of these images by hand. The earlier "Domestic Threats" pastel-on-sandpaper paintings used her West Village apartment or her 1932 Sears house in Virginia as a backdrop. The "Black Paintings" series grew directly from "Domestic Threats". In the "Black Paintings," the figures (actors) take center stage. All background details, furniture, rugs, etc. have been eliminated and replaced by intense dark black pastel. Each painting takes months to complete as she slowly builds up as many as 30 layers of soft pastel. Her long-standing fascination with traditional masks progressed in the spring of 2017 when she visited the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, Bolivia where one exhibition included more than fifty festival masks. The resulting series is entitled “Bolivianos”.[12] She has also written an e-book, From Pilot to Painter[13] and writes a regular blog, Barbara Rachko...

"Mushroom Magic" - Original Pen and Ink Illustration on Paper in the Style of Folk Art A charming illustration by California artist, Angela Stone (American, b. 1983), of a scene with three woodland animals - a fox, a bear, and a deer - cuddled up together on an armchair reading a book titled, "Mushroom Magic." A cat sleeps below the three in a basket full of yarn. The detailed ink gives such depth and texture to the artwork with patterns, stippling, and shading. The interior of the cabin gives an old-fashioned Alpine chic...