Thomas John Carlson

"Still Life (hand)" Oil on canvas, blue & gray, small scale figurative painting

2020

Medium scale vertical contemporary still life oil painting of interior, the artist studio window during the 2020 quarantine. Moody color tones border the sunny window with a sheer white curtain revealing the pastel cityscape behind it. A deep green potted plant in a terracotta planter, slightly askew, sits in front of the window along with quarantine everyday life essentials, including toilet paper rolls and a bottle of kelly green dish soap. The sunny window brings hopeful light into the room from the Philadelphia architectural...

"Nude, Flowers, Pitcher, and Fruit", oil on canvas, figurative, pastel.

Mixed-Media / Oil Painting / Illustration / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Human Figure / Chess / Comic Books / Video Games / Representations of Everyday Objects / Illustration / Interiors / Figurative Art / Outsider Art / Pop Art From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Chess with a Comic Collector" is an incredible figurative, pop surrealist piece made with oil and acrylic and a PLA plastic filament drawing affixed to wood panel. The 3D piece features a "a bearded and bespectacled young man, beer bottle close at hand, cut-outs of the Incredible Hulk...

Mixed-Media / Stickers / Illustration / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Human Figure / Chess / Comic Books / Video Games / Resin / Drawing / Representations of Everyday Objects / Figurative Art / Pop Art From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Sticker Painting" is an incredible and unique resin coated pop surrealist painting featuring well over 70 gel pen drawings on sticker paper affixed to a wood panel painted in oil and acrylic paint. Among the illustration images are a panoply of pop culture references from the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern hemispheres -- birds and other animals, landscapes, UFOs, food items, nineties-era pornography, vehicles, yin yang symbols, skulls, daggers, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...

My paintings operate in a fictitious world that utilizes the mythologies and realities of the modern American West. Because of its unique history, the Western United States is more t...

Six Green Apples is an original artwork realized in 2006 by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror). Beautiful oil painting on canvas. Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes frame. Hand-wri...

Multi-coloured apples fill an elegant crystal vase situated on a smooth surface. This vase is the heart of the composition and it captures the attention of the beholders with its met...

Breakfast is an original oil painting realized in 2007 by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror). Beautiful oil painting on canvas. Includes frame 50.5 x 3.5 x 60.5 cm Hand-signed and dated on...