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Code Green Blue
By Petra Rös-Nickel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
the beholder access to more profound color planes. These details, scratchings, and rubbings lead to
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media
Waves Blue Grey
By Petra Rös-Nickel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
beholder access to more profound color planes. These details, scratchings, and rubbings lead to various
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
"Assortment of Flowers in Blue Vase, " Mixed Media signed by Catherine Holmburg
By Catherine Holmburg
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Assortment of Flowers in Blue Vase" is an original mixed media piece by Catherine Holmburg. The
Category
Early 2000s Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
"Red, Yellow, Blue & Green, " Color Woodcut & Monotype signed by Carol Summers
By Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Red, Yellow, Blue & Green" is an original color woodcut by Carol Summers. The artist signed the
Category
2010s Landscape Prints
Materials
Monotype, Woodcut
Happy Blue 21-8
By Petra Rös-Nickel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
color planes. These details, scratchings, and rubbings lead to various elements of tension, such as
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Blue Bowl with Lemons - Impressionist Pastel Still Life Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Blue Bowl with Lemons
10.0 x 8.0 x 0.1, 1.0 lbs
Pastel on archival paper
Hand signed by artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Pastel
H 8 in W 10 in D 0.1 in
Blue Curaçao - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
options.
Jeff Conroy
Blue Curaçao
sumi ink and colored pencil on mulberry paper
15h x 20w in
38.10h x
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Creeping Blue Ring - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
. Please contact the gallery for framing options.
Jeff Conroy
Creeping Blue Ring
sumi ink and colored
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Goldilocks - Blue Moon - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options.
Jeff Conroy
Goldilocks - Blue Moon
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Mr. Bubbles - Blue Agave - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options.
Jeff Conroy
Mr. Bubbles - Blue Agave
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Sumi Ink, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Studio 54 - Code Blue - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
options.
Jeff Conroy
Studio 54 - Code Blue
sumi ink and colored pencil on mulberry paper
15h x 19.75w in
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Delicate Cowparsley, Limited Edition Etching Print, Blue Floral art, Real Flower
By Charlie Davies
Located in Deddington, GB
mastered produces slight variations when rubbing the ink off. Consequently even though this artwork is
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Charlie DaviesDelicate Cowparsley, Limited Edition Etching Print, Blue Floral art, Real Flower, 2021
H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
Blue Blood - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of a Multi-Colored Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
Blue Blood
sumi ink and colored pencil on mulberry paper
12.50h x 18.25w in
31.75h x 46.35w cm
JEC119
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil, Sumi Ink
Blue Boy of the North Atlantic - Octopus on Antique Nautical Chart Gyotako Style
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
gallery for framing options.
Jeff Conroy
Blue Boy of the North Atlantic
sumi ink and colored pencil on
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Sumi Ink, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Sea Fan - Green Meets Blue - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
Blue
sumi ink and colored pencil on mulberry paper
20h x 30w in
50.80h x 76.20w cm
JEC166
Gyotaku - A
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Study for Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway, Morris Canal)
By Oscar Florianus Bluemner
Located in New York, NY
, revised between 1914 and 1922, as Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway River) in the collection of the
Category
20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Sea Fan - Blue Meets Red - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options.
Jeff Conroy
Sea Fans - Blue Meets Red
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Sumi Ink, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
The Blue Ring of Cape Fourcroy - Gyotaku Painting of Octopus on Nautical Chart
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
contact the gallery for framing options.
Jeff Conroy
The Blue Ring of Cape Fourcroy
sumi ink and colored
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper
LOERA NEBULA, Mixed Media on Wood Panel
By Tiffani Buteau
Located in Yardley, PA
darkness that dangles hope and new beginnings in a burgeoning blue and gold nebula whose elements dance as
Category
2010s Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Sandbar Channel, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
pour, to sanding back looking for patterns under dried paint, rubbing in ink or more paint to stain or
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
H 40.1 in W 80.3 in D 1.3 in
AZAE THETA NEBULA (with LEDs), Mixed Media on Wood Panel
By Tiffani Buteau
Located in Yardley, PA
capture the vibrant exhilaration of cosmological discovery. Rich sapphire-blue fades into the blackness of
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Above The Fray, Original Signed Contemporary Impressionist Seascape Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
color palette of blue, green, and white.
Images with frames are examples only; this work comes unframed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
THE RIBBON NEBULA (with LED lights), Mixed Media on Wood Panel
By Tiffani Buteau
Located in Yardley, PA
sides charcoal and rubbing it in to the wood grain leaving a similar effect that robustly complements
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
H 18 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
Charlie Davies, Agapanthus, Limited Edition Floral Print, Affordable Art
By Charlie Davies
Located in Deddington, GB
printmaking process that Charlie has so tastefully mastered results in slight variations when rubbing the ink
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Saving Grace, Original Contemporary Impressionist Pastel Landscape Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
on Paper
A pastural landscape is depicted with soft strokes of pastel in shades of green, blue, and
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
WATER Signed Lithograph, Abstract Chinese Brush Strokes, Manhole Cover, Aqua
By Pierre Alechinsky
Located in Union City, NJ
abstract litho washes surrounding an imprint which reads "WATER" taken from an actual wax crayon rubbing of
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Skiing in the Western Rockies' original mixed media by Catherine Holmburg
By Catherine Holmburg
Located in Milwaukee, WI
each surface through glazing, rubbing and impasto techniques using mixed media of watercolor, pastel
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Acrylic, Giclée
Happy Turquoise 21-9
By Petra Rös-Nickel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
profound color planes. These details, scratchings, and rubbings lead to various elements of tension, such
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Time Traveler - Impressionist Pastel Wave Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist's Commentary:
"Once in a blue moon, a painting just paints itself. That was the case with this
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Art of Love
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
polishing the other's toes,
The other is rubbing their head right.
This is the art of love,
To do for each
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstractions no.32
By Jack Sonenberg
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
of red, blue, yellow or green are all the richer because of their restraint. In “Sounding I” the
Category
1960s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Evening Chorus - Impressionist Pastel Landscape Diptych Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist's Commentary:
"This diptych was so much fun to paint! I love how the complements of blue and orange
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
H 16 in W 10 in D 1 in
Live Wire - Impressionist Pastel Landscape Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
and then subtracting pastel. I love the juxtaposition of the turquoise wave against the deep blue
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Legs For Days - Three Octopuses in Gyotaku Style Japanese Sumi Ink Painting
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
Three outstretched octopuses in shades of blue and red are seen here in Jeff Conroy's work entitled
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
EACHAIA NEBULA, Mixed Media on Wood Panel
By Tiffani Buteau
Located in Yardley, PA
EACHAIA NEBULA captures the breathtaking beauty of a nebula close up. Its meandering blend of blue
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Through The Woods, Original Signed Contemporary Impressionist Pastel Landscape
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
orange, with slivers of a bright blue sky peaking through. Yellow and purple flowers dot the sides of the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
H 16 in W 12 in D 0.1 in
Ambrotype of a Gentleman in a Suit in Case, Civil War Period 1860s
Located in Milwaukee, WI
on brass frame in case. some rubbing to blue velvet liner. Some surface losses to exterior case
Category
1860s Romantic Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
H 3.63 in W 3.13 in D 0.75 in
Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Santa Fe, NM
too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Large Modernist Italian Oil Painting Surrealist Abstract Figures
By Marco Cingolani
Located in Surfside, FL
fascinated by the passage from news to history and vice versa; also in this case the UN blue helmets, the red
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
DREAMFIELDS II: PURPLE Signed Lithograph, Multicolor Pastel Abstract
By Sybil Kleinrock
Located in Union City, NJ
background; dashes of color in shades of lime yellow, periwinkle blue, red, graphite gray on pastel purple
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Krishna Steals the Gopis Clothes, " Abstract Landscape, Signed
By Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
the piece in the center. This woodcut depicts three trees on a red and blue hill.
37" x 37" art
42 1
Category
1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
H 42.25 in W 42.125 in
Sweet Seasons, Original Signed Impressionist Landscape Pastel Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
) Pastel on Paper
Hand-signed by the artist.
An estuary depicted in a lovely light blue winds through the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Only A River's (Gonna Make Things Right), Original Signed Landscape Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
blue waters then re-center the work, grounding the composition and giving it a serene feel that calms
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Santa Fe, NM
too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sunday Drive, Original Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Pastel Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
impressionist composition is filled up with a gorgeous cloudy sky made up of white, gray, blue, and pink
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
"Autumn" Cubist Style Woodblock Print Edition 10/100
By Eugene Larkin
Located in Houston, TX
Woodcut print of fall trees done in heavy blacks with a deep blue background titled "Autumn
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
French Pastel Portrait of a Chevalier of the Order of St Louis.
By (Circle of) Jean Baptiste Greuze
Located in Cotignac, FR
a blue velvet cape over one shoulder. He is wearing on a sash against a red silk background the
Category
18th Century Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
H 19.5 in W 16.5 in D 0.5 in
"India, " Abstract Woodcut and Monotype signed by Carol Summers
By Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
red water falling down behind green foliage below. A hint of light blue at the lower left suggests a
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype, Woodcut
"Jungle, " Color Lithograph Landscape signed by Carol Summers
By Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
production. The image offers a landscape of a dark jungle, printed mostly in black ink. In the center, a blue
Category
1960s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Sierra Madre, " Original Color Woodblock Nude signed by Carol Summers
By Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
image, an elegant blue woman relines upon a field of red, her gaze fixed on the viewer. Her left leg is
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Vesuvio, " Abstract Poster signed by Carol Summers
By Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
heart and other abstract shapes in pink and blue. This is an artist's proof.
29 1/4" x 21" art
37 3/4
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color
Verge (Blue)
By Alyse Rosner
Located in New York, NY
The paintings of Alyse Rosner are a combination of graphite rubbings, ink and poured acrylic paint
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite, Ink
Dreamscape (blue hydrangea)
By Emily Filler
Located in Calgary, Alberta
relies heavily on the act of removal – rubbing out areas of a painting that she has spent hours building
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Dreamscape (Red + Blue + Silver)
By Emily Filler
Located in Calgary, Alberta
relies heavily on the act of removal – rubbing out areas of a painting that she has spent hours building
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Leverage
By Doug Trump
Located in New York, NY
influenced gestures and composition. Primary colors include hues of taupe, grey blue, red, black, and white
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Buzzer
By Doug Trump
Located in New York, NY
influenced gestures and composition. Primary colors include hues of taupe, blue, black, red, grey
Doug
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Wood Panel, Pencil
Hand to Hand
By Doug Trump
Located in New York, NY
expressionist influenced gestures and composition. Primary colors include hues of green, gray, pink, and blue
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Pencil
Drive to Aix
By Doug Trump
Located in New York, NY
expressionist influenced gestures and composition. Primary colors include hues of taupe, grey, blue, red, black
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Permanent Marker, Pencil
Holding Space
By Agneta Ekholm
Located in Darlinghurst, NSW
washes, while continually washing and rubbing sections away until the final complex image is built. She
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
'Untitled' 2012, Abstract acrylic painting on canvas, contemporary painting
By Agneta Ekholm
Located in Darlinghurst, NSW
washes, while continually washing and rubbing sections away until the final complex image is built. She
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
H 31.5 in W 23.63 in D 1.19 in
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How Much is a Rubbing Blue?
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