Magical Art For Sale

Artists Describing Their Art:

Jaimie Cordero - Jaimie Cordero is an award-winning watercolor artist from Miami, Florida. Her passion is traveling to exotic locales, wandering quaint backroads and villages and finding inspiration to paint the way in which the sunlight there catches the local architecture and byways. Her painting collections include series done in Bermuda, Spain, South Florida, the Caribbean, Colombia and Bucks County, PA. Jaimie currently has paintings on display in several exhibitions across the United States, in South Florida including the Gold Coast Watercolor Society, Palm Beach Watercolor Society, and Miami Watercolor Society exhibitions. She is a member of all of those societies, as well as the Florida Watercolor Society. Her paintings are included in the permanent collections of Merrill Lynch and are avidly purchased by private collectors. More of Jaimie's paintings and a tour through her galleries can be found at AquarelleStudiosandGalleries.com Please sign Jaimie's guest book. ...

Kattalina M Kazunas - A simple definition of alchemy is "the transmutation of base metal into gold." This is the definition most people would recognize. Another definition of alchemy, and the one that I prefer is, "the Royal Art of living consciously." My fascination with alchemy parallels my fascination with the mysteries of the natural world. The world of alchemy, like life, is filled with secret languages, symbols, and magical substances, that only begin to make sense when we give them focused attention. I am equally fascinated by the transformative effect on consciousness that happens through the creation, use, and study of symbols. Symbols become keys that unlock the mysteries of a soul's inner architecture, as well as the secrets of alchemical processes and transformations. This series of eight broadsides is my interpretation of ancient alchemical maxims written hundreds of years ago by Hermes Trismegistus, Paracelsus, and other alchemists, that still hold true today. A combination of vintage techniques was used in their creation: letterpress printing, indigo vat dying, iron oxide, and gold pigment....

Emmett Elvin - Emmett Elvin is an artist, musician and writer. He works in both commercial and fine art fields, having illustrated numerous titles. He also plays in several active, recording bands. Further information can be found via the services of a search engine, or by emailing the artist directly....

Russet Andrew - If a photograph can tell a story, then Vladimir Andreyev tells epics. Hailed as the "Tolstoy of photography," Andreyev specializes in recording nature at its most exquisite moments. In many of Andreyev's photographs, the sky occupies three-quarters of the picture, thereby offering sweeping views of the sky and setting the mood of each piece. Each picture creates a different mood, depending on the perspective and the quality of light; the artist sets an emotional tone of foreboding drama or quiet reflection. Andreyev's eye for beauty lends an almost painterly quality to his work, with their lush colors and romantic compositions. The artist states that his goal is to create a "poetic photograph" that transforms nature into something inspiring. Originally from Russia, Andreyev began his work as a photographer after he moved to the U.S. His award-winning work is exhibited in private collections across the U.S. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York....

Dana Zivanovits - Dana Zivanovits was born in 1958 in Columbus, Ohio and received his art training from the Columbus College of Art and Design (1978 to 1982). After art school, he went abroad for a year and studied the art of the old masters in London, Paris, Madrid, Rome and Venice. Returning to his studio in Columbus to develop these influences into a new body of work, he then traveled to Mexico and studied the sculpture and painting of that country for an extended period. The unique and vivid colors of Palenque and Vera Cruz intensified his palette. After a period in Ohio, he then moved to Venice Beach, California where the brilliant light of the region reinforced his desire to capture effects of sunlight and atmosphere. Returning to Ohio in 1995, he has continued to paint themes deriving inspiration form sources such as world mythology, classic and B-grade cinema, literature and dreams. However his primary inspiration is direct observation from nature, versus an approach based in art theories or cultural critique. Dana has been widely represented by galleries and exhibition projects including Julie Rico and Mega Boom in Los Angeles, the Venice Art Detour, Around the Coyote Festival in Chicago ...

Jacqueline Weegels Burns - My whole life I have always been involved in arts and crafts. Now, having two children, my art seems more eclectic than ever, because I am influenced by them and THEIR art. In turn it is wonderful to see how I inspire them with my stories and art. We have created art together, ranging from home made cards, watercolor pictures, multi-media images, 3-D objects and much more. My art will always be varied as I enjoy switching between small detailed pictures and larger abstract works....

Tom Poole - Kentucky artist Tom Poole paints with watercolors, acrylic, pastels and mixed media,www.tompooleart.com. He has studied with some of the best artists in the world and considers Cheng-Khee Chee to be his mentor. Tom's work has been accepted in many regional and national exhibitions including the Southern Watercolor Society, the Kentucky Aqueous Show and the Louisiana International Exhibition. He is a signature member of the Louisiana Watercolor Society, a member of the Southern Watercolor Society, the Georgia Watercolor Society, the Mississippi Watercolor Society and a regional director of the Kentucky Watercolor Society. He is also a member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters. His art has a strong emphasis on design and bold color. His figural and portrait paintings are contemplative and invite the viewer to be quietly drawn into the painting and more recently has been including mystic and spiritual components. He is striving to make his art more personal. He says, "My art is intended to be sensual, poetic and in some way a small look into the soul." He believes that a painting should be a continuous exploration, a continuous revelation that never stops telling you it's secrets. His work is ...

Cindy Jane Strong - My paintings are a way for me to give structure to my thoughts and feelings so that I may better understand them. I try not to commit to an idea too far in advance, preferring to let the image evolve as the painting progresses. I might know that I want to include a particular object, gesture, color, etcetera, but why doesn't become clear until later. I am less concerned about accurate representation as I am about honest expression. The images I create come from many sources; they are part observation, imagination, and reaction. My intention is that they be taken metaphorically rather than literally. I am fascinated with how edges relate to transition and how shapes are formed in negative space. My figures become a part of their environment. I am very interested in the origin of things, including paint pigments themselves. In this sense I feel a connection to my materials. I like to work in oils because they allow me to move the paint around until I begin to sense where the painting is going. I begin each painting in gray tones and then build my color from there while simultaneously heightening the lights and deepening the...

Claudia Nierman - Some words about my work: The images I produce are deliberately enigmatic and multi-layered. They invite the viewer to engage in the process of storytelling whereby dreaming and living are woven together as a tapestry. I find the sources for my work in the urban environment: window displays, torn posters, graffiti, broken architecture. In short, the remains of man. These objects and situations are eventually transformed by rain, sun, reflections, and shadows, as well as additions made by the passerby. Shaped by the forces of chance, these ephemeral visions are captured on film (and now also in bits and bites) and used as raw material that merge one into another forming a new identity. The result? On one hand, a strange amalgam of my preoccupation with time and memory, and on the other, the way in which the deliberate manipulaton through photographic images can give us insight into our personal and collective struggles. Technical information: I usually work in three different formats: 25 cm x 30 cm and 32 cm x 45 cm printed on cibachrome paper; and a large format of 57 cm x 80 cm, digitilizing the final image and printing it on canvas. (Since this latter ...

Jerry Di Falco - Photography inspires my art and acts as a vital element in my etchings. The images I employ originate from my own photographs, as well as from the images I find from my research into the digital archives of universities, historical societies, libraries, and museums. Upon locating a documented scene I wish to etch, my first step involves the execution of two to five original drawings of the photograph. My collaboration between photography and printmaking allows me the independence to integrate my personal interpretations into the scene. Moreover, I create bridges between the physical and metaphysical visual realities in the same way that a camera intersects with human creativity . . . the nexus between the mechanical and the cerebral art tools. Art unveils everything that we mask behind our belief systems conversely, I strive in my creations to clarify those phenomena we overlook as a result of our egocentric assumptions. Ironically enough, I blame this failure to notice things, a process I label, the phenomenology of connectedness, on todayaEURtms very infatuation with and addiction to the new communicational technologies of social media. My artworks therefore become like windows through which to examine the mysteries of aEURoeeveryday consciousnessaEUR. In fact, my use of ...