Sun Goddess

I felt the urge to paint in oils again after nearly 7 months of only digital painting... that's wayyyy too long, how did that happen? oil + some acrylic 16x20" ...email me if interested sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Breathing Underwater

Something new... I am experimenting more with painting in Photoshop. I love using the gold texture. I've always loved the vector look, but hate doing it, so I found a way to use the paintbrush rather than the pen tool to achieve that look anyways. Everything is the same basic calligraphy brush, except of course those orb/bubbles. Just playing with opacity and gradients on top of flat colors.

A Special Bowl Of Oatmeal

"A Special Bowl of Oatmeal" is a children's book written by Evett Simmons, Illustrated by (me). It's a cute heartwarming story of an abandoned little girl rediscovering what a mother is.

I began the illustrations back in April and completed it three months later... Now the book is ready for sale and available to order online ...I've posted a sampling of the illustrations, if you want to see more, and know the story behind it you must get the book!

Order "A Special Bowl of Oatmeal" here for $12 ---> Bunniewise Store  

Receive a 20% discount off the retail price of $14.95 + shipping & handling when you purchase all books online

 

Digital Painting

I guess this is an experiment using my new wacom tablet and photoshop. This came out a little morbid, didn't plan it, just happened... sketching. I've had the wacom tablet for a couple months now, but I'm still trying to get used to the difference between traditional and digital painting. I like it though, it's fun :] and way too easy to waste a lot of time.

So far I'm just using the brushes already on photoshop, figured I'd play around with those before I go and overwhelm myself with too many choices. It's a problem, there are too many choices. I'm used to being extremely direct in painting, but the feeling is so different and so many different ways to paint. How do you do it!???

My NEW Etsy Store

I am announcing the official opening of my etsy store: Art by SamNagel!

As of today I have limited edition, signed (by me) prints available for purchase. I'm thinking about listing the originals soon, but want to see how my prints will do first.

So go check it out! I made it super duper easy!

made with love www.etsy.com/shop/SamNagel

Shapeshifter: Crow

Crow: sacred law, ability to bend laws, shape shift,
illusions, denotes change.

I am continuing a newly developing technique. I'm always looking for a way to apply texture, and gain precision at the same time. I love the way it looks AND enjoyed the painting part too. (usually it is one or the other)

Acrylic on canvas 14x18"
$395.oo

email me at: sam_sgn@hotmail.com

I'm developing (another) new technique

Three Angels
14x18" acrylic on canvas, $250

Black Bird
(sold)

New experiments. I painted with acrylic... that almost never happens. But now that I have developed a technique that I like I prob will be using a lot more acrylic in the future. The bird painting is my first go at it, just practice to see if it would work. My second painting I went a little further with, but next time I will make the background less distracting... learning as I go.

For sale if anyone is interested email me at: sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Release of "Who Is That Woman?"

Linda Miller's book "Who is That Woman?"is now available for purchase, $35 +tax/shipping. The book is "A compilation of poems, ponderings, musings and meanderings of some of the most intimate and most intense moments in life." -Linda Aileen Miller

Accompanying her poetry are my illustrations, 30 in total + one by the author. A hearty sample of featured illustrations from the book can be found if you scroll down and look at my previous posts, or on my Website.

go here to Buy the Book or email me and I will forward your order to the right place :)

sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Waves Mini Series

I had to come up with something fast for my submission for an exhibit coming up this April. Last summer I did a small watercolor painting of a big wave and swirling sun called "Facing East" and it has been very popular, so I wanted to try it in oil and much bigger.

top: "Morning High Tide"
bottom: "Big Wave"
20x24" oil on canvas $495 each (discount if you want both... ask me)
sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Mural

This is an office mural I worked on last September... I know it has taken me too long to get it posted here, but finally, here it is. Dolphins and a bird were the requirements, and in keeping to a limited budget for paint and time I chose to use flat bold colors. I love the way it looks in person, with the lighting and room decorations, it all came together very well. Ahem, please excuse my sorry attempt at putting together two photos, but you get the point...

Child's Portrait

A commissioned child's portrait, of course I have to put my square strokes in somewhere. I'm a little disappointed with the picture here; the original painting looks much nicer... but that's what happens when I take a photo instead of scan it. It's been a while since I've done a figure in oil, and know it will always give me a nice painting session... portraits are fun, always different, and I've done so many that by now I don't even have to think too hard and I just enjoy the process.

oil 12x16"

Sketch Faces

Portraits I've recently made in my sketchbook. top is watercolor, bottom two are gouache...

When life throws us around

New piece, one of my recent contorted ladies, style inspired by my latest browsing of fashion and watercolor images online... I'm trying to get the clothes right, it's a bit harder to conjure up in my mind how clothing fits on a person with no reference to work from. I've been sketching more portraits lately as well... it has payed off here. I will post some of those sketches next time...

Will be printed in Linda Miller's book "Who is That Woman?"

Prints available, email sam_sgn@hotmail.com

The Rain is Getting Closer

I'm working on a series of these. This is the third one so far, and a bit larger than last time. I do love florida weather, especially the afternoon thunderstorms - the way they build in ominous plumes, swirling up the wind sweeping away stagnant air right before the down pour... mother nature's AC in the hot summer heat.

18x24" oil on canvas $495.00

prints (matted):
8x10" $15
11x14" $25

inquire by email: sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Beach continued...

There is something about rain clouds that I love... Florida's mountains.

14x18" oil on canvas $395.00

prints (matted):
8x10" $15
11x14" $25

inquire by email: sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Jensen Beach

This is an oil painting of the coast on Hutchinson Island in Jensen Beach, FL. I went out last week and shot some photos on the beach, something simple, but I loved the clouds and the sharp waves cutting out of the glassy calm water; quite beautiful. I haven't touched oils since I finished my senior project back in April, and OMG it feels sooooo good to paint with them again. Truly it is my favorite medium. During the last four months I've only been working in watercolors and I think it has loosened me up a bit somehow with the oils... which doesn't make sense. Watercolor is a much more tight and restrictive technique and requires the planning that I oh so love to ignore. But somehow I really felt the difference and enjoyed this painting completely.

14x18" oil on canvas (sold)

prints (matted):
8x10" $15
11x14" $25

inquire by email: sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Who is That Woman?

All of my recent 9x12 watercolors are soon to be in the book titled "Who is That Woman?" Each painting accompanies a piece of poetry written by Linda Miller. The book is finally near completion and will be available for sale soon! Continue to come back for updates on the release date.


"Interconnectedness"

"Surrendering"

 "Journey of Now" (sold)

 

"Sacred Fire"

All artwork is for sale. Originals are 9x12" watercolor,
in a 14x18" frame. $350 each.
8x10" matted prints $15
11x14" matted prints $25

contact me at: sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Post Art School

It has only been two months and I've already taken a completely different direction from what I was doing my senior year at Ringling... I guess it takes graduating, the lifting of the pressure to finally allow myself to paint just for pleasure, explore different media, realize I can draw from my head, and not care what others think about it... artistic freedom, finally.

Enjoy!

"Peaceful Slumber"

"Come Out and Play"

"Spooning"


All artwork is for sale. Originals are 9x12" watercolor,
in a 14x18" frame. $350 each.
8x10" matted prints $15
11x14" matted prints $25

contact me at: sam_sgn@hotmail.com

"Saturday Morning" and "Facing East"

"Saturday Morning"

"Facing East"



All artwork is for sale. Originals are 9x12" watercolor,
in a 14x18" frame. $350 each.
8x10" matted prints $15
11x14" matted prints $25

please inquire at sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Illustrations for Linda's Book

"Rain"
(sold)

"Sands of Time"

"Who is That Woman?"
(sold)

"Thank You"

All artwork is for sale. Originals are 9x12" watercolor,
in a 14x18" frame. $350 each.
8x10" matted prints $15
11x14" matted prints $25

please inquire at sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Feels Good...

"Angel"

(sold)

"The Wind Makes Me Giggle"
(sold)

"Sit Quietly"

"Love Weaves a Web"

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All artwork is for sale. Originals are 9x12" watercolor,
in a 14x18" frame. $350 each.
8x10" matted prints $15
11x14" matted prints $25

please inquire at sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Senior Thesis work

All artwork is for sale.
Originals are Oil, 12x13" and 30" tall with varying width,
2.5" gallery wrap, ready to hang. $300 and $600 each

(prints not available) contact me at: sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Senior Thesis work

(sold)

(sold)

All artwork is for sale.
Originals are Oil, 12x13" and 30" tall with varying width,
2.5" gallery wrap, ready to hang. $300 and $600 each

(prints not available) contact me at: sam_sgn@hotmail.com

Thesis Artist Statement

My involvement in community workshops utilizing the interdisciplinary arts as a method of healing has shaped my view on what is art and how it affects those who perceive it. Through my experiences I have become acutely aware of the nuances of our individual realities, how our thoughts unconsciously create the tangible worlds we live in, and the interactions between those realities. It is the reaction of multiple perceptions that I have attempted to visually illustrate as my senior project.

I conducted an investigation, break down and reconstruction of the image women conceive for themselves, focusing on women’s body issues, visually breaking down skewed self-perceptions and transforming them into subtle expressions of truth and beauty. I chose the female body and the space she inhabits as a channel to concentrate the broad scope that the self-perceived world could encompass. Body image lends itself to a variety of differing perspectives; how one sees one’s self is most often askew to the view of another. By subjecting women’s harsh, distorted, and critical self-image to such an inaccurate construct, a threshold is created where truth, clarity and her inherent perfection is granted emergence from the depths of obscurity. Through the physical medium of oil, I created a visual collision of multiple perceptions, a reaction between the relationship of the subject’s self-image, and my artistic perception as an observer of the world in shapes, color, and form as well as one who penetrates beyond the boundaries of sight, unearthing human obscurities as aesthetic beauty.

Senior Self-Portrait

Welcome to my Kitchen

This painting is for sale.
Original in Oil, 12x24" gallery wrap style
ready to hang. $450

(prints available upon request)
sam_sgn@hotmail.com