"Midas Touch"

Ink on wood panel

23k goldleaf

12x12

SOLD (prints available in various sizes)

"A Son's Love"

Ink on wood panel

23 kt goldleaf embellishments

16x20

SOLD (prints available)

"Ocean Vibes I and II"

"Ocean Vibes I"

Ink on wood panel

12x12

sold(prints available in various sizes)

"Ocean Vibes II"

Ink on wood panel

12x12

sold(prints available in various sizes)

silver leaf embellishments on originals

and prints 

"Purple Passion"

                            

"Purple Passion"

12x12 Ink and 23k gold on wood panel

Original available 

Prints available in various sizes.

"Mystic Blue"

12x12 Ink on Wood Panel

SOLD

Prints available in various sizes

"Color Spray I and II"

 

 

"Color Spray" set

12x12 Ink

SOLD

Prints available in various sizes

"Bloom Where You are Planted I and II"

"Bloom Where You Are Planted"   

 12x12 ink on wood panel  

SOLD

 beautiful prints available.  

Turning a black and white photo into colorful, meaningful art.

18x24 Acrylic on canvas.

I was hired to recreate this photo through my style of art.  This will be a very special Christmas present from a son to his mother. It was the farm in which he grew up on and this is what he shared with me.  "This is the picture. It represents my life, my roots and upbringing.  The deep character within a person. A time when I was learning but yet not know or understanding.. doing chores, having simple innocent fun,  instilling a work ethic, that would last a life time.  The Ken that exists today is different from the Ken that played in that barn.   Just a thought you should know as you paint the significance this photo represents."

A little faux marble paint job and new hardware made an old drab piece of furniture a FAB piece!

 

"Juicy Fruit"

                                                                   oil on canvas 16x20

                                                                  oil on canvas 16x20

My latest commissioned piece.

"Pretty Pottery"

Abstract 2

A work in progress.

"Plum Passion"

Interesting and DISTURBING!

An example of efficiency in painting taken to an extreme can be found in the art factories of China. Sixty percent of the world’s mass produced, cheap oil painting copies come from one small town (1.5 square miles) in China, called Dafen. A worker there can produce a couple of dozen copies a day by hand and it is estimated that 5 million paintings are produced in Dafen every year. There are assembly lines too, as described in The Economist:
Dafen—and other villages like it—are bringing the factory assembly-line into the artist's studio. In a dimly lit hall on the outskirts of Dafen, “painter workers” stand side by side dabbing colours onto canvas. Liu Chang Zhen, a 27-year-old, works eight hours a day to complete more than 200 canvases a month—painting several copies of a picture at a time, methodically filling in the same patch on each before moving to a new part. At other factories, painters work on the same product, but specialize in different parts—in ears or hands or trees. They work from art books, postcards and images from the internet. Sometimes they just paint inside an outline copied electronically from a photograph, enlarged and stamped on the blank canvas.

By: Lawrence Chrapliwy

Work in progress.

"Tomatoes"

"The Red Hot Jalapeno Peppers"

"Red Peppers"