Marc Barker

'Cloud Cave' Monochromatic Urban Landscape by Marc Barker, Oil on Panel Painting

2007

This monochromatic oil on canvas cloud painting by Marc Barker is from the 'Cloudscapes' series. Puffy, white cumulus clouds float in a dark sky above a la...

This oil on canvas by Marc Barker features turbulent clouds over a body of water in monotones of black, white and grey. The painting is mounted to Aluminu...

'Tethered' is a contemporary monochromatic oil on panel painting from Marc Barker's "Illusion of Mattering" series. The painting features two central figur...

This 40" x 40" oil on masonite panel by artist Marc Barker was painted in charcoal and sepia tones, and was created in an 'old world' grisaille style. "This monochromatic abstract harkens back to my collegiate studies, and as a graduate student teaching zoology with the hours spent staring into a microscope mystified by the primordial world just out of site, a bacterial/protozoan cloud chamber...

Todd Carpenter's (US based) "Regression" is an acrylic painting that depicts a black and white landscape. Bio/artist statement: Todd Carpenter is a Los Angeles based artist who use...

Midnight Metropolis - Head In The Clouds Using a monochromatic palette, Lucy has created an abstract cityscape splattered with life's unpredictability, invites contemplation, while t...

"Lost Between The Details" depicts a open skies and city lights. This scene is of no particular place, but rather Carpenter's interpretation and compilation of various places he has visited. As a painter, I examine how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. The portrayal of light helps a painting to convey the atmosphere and mood of a scene, and is much of what enables a painting to convey depth and realism. Our perception of lighting features occurs largely through pathways in the brain that carry only black and white information, pathways which are distinct from areas that encode the colors and details we use to delineate specific objects. By painting in grayscale, I try to interact specifically with this region of our visual system, with the hope of conveying some of the spaciousness and emotional significance that light can imbue on scenes. Light, whether as the crisp contrast of a back-lit forest or the gray haze of an industrial landscape, is what defines a scene. Its power to communicate the feel of a place is the principle subject of my paintings. The Blue Azul Collection...

Amidst Thunder is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 60 × 90 cm (23.6 × 35.4 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and c...