Fall Hurricane

I am a Digital Artist who uses Adobe Illustrator 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. I create my world through points, lines, and color. Chuck Jones, the animator, Loet Vanderveen, the sculptor, and the artist Erte have been monumental influences on how I approach line work and form. Precision with a lot of chaos and whimsy. I fell in love with drafting in architectural school, where I earned my degree. I have been a digital artist for nearly 38 years, but have just begun to exhibit my work publicly in the last year or so. I am now ready to share my individual perspective with the world.

Fall In Glacier NP 2

I was an artist from an early age, experimenting with drawing, charcoal, acrylic painting, and mixed media from grade school through high school. However, I put art on hold while I pursued a finance career which allowed me to travel the world living in London, Prague, Taipei, Johannesburg, and across the US.

After retiring and moving to Colorado, I attended a soft pastels art class in February 2023 and rediscovered a passion for art. Art has become my “next act’.

I am proud to have been accepted into numerous juried art shows and asked to donate pieces directly to charity fundraisers. I call my business Do Good Art since I donate 100% of the profits of all sales to charities that focus on issues like cancer, food insecurity, and homelessness. In so doing, my goal is to make the world a little better place through art and giving.

So join me in Doing Good (through) Art.

Fall Of Afghanistan

September 11th, 2001, Luis Rosa-Valentin found himself in the position of attention in the company area listening to the drill sergeant. About an hour elapsed when the senior drill sergeant hurriedly approached our drill, whispered in his ear, and then they both disappeared into the office, leaving us alone in the silence of what would become the last few minutes in Luis’ life that he would know the word peace. The drill sergeant returned.

Sergeant Luis Rosa reported for his second combat unit in December of 2007. By February Sergeant Rosa was back in Iraq. Then, on April 21st, 2008 (two days before his birthday) SGT Rosa, during an attack against insurgents in Sadr City, was on foot when he was struck with a roadside bomb. As a result of the blast Sgt Rosa lost both legs above the knee, his left arm below the elbow, the sight from his left eye, all hearing in both ears (he now wears a cochlear implant in either ear), and a moderate brain injury.

Fall On The River

Carol Schmauder was born and raised in Spokane, Washington, where she currently lives with her husband, Glenn. Like most artists, she showed interest in art at an early age and has experimented with several media over her lifetime.

She is a graphic designer that entered the world of fine art in 1988 after taking watercolor classes from Stan Miller and MaryAnn Figgins. She began using acrylics for most of her work in 2017. Her professional life has led to participation in over a hundred exhibitions; both solo and in groups. She has paintings in collections nationwide and has won numerous awards.

Because she “doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up”, Carol experiments with different styles of art. She has experienced great success with her Shattered Reality series and is best known for this fun style of starting with a traditional subject and creating sections of warm and cool colors playing off of each other. Dark and light sections also add life to these paintings. She enjoys painting in different forms of abstract art as well as traditional forms. She has no desire to quit exploring different
techniques and art forms.

Carol enjoys painting themes that are happy in nature. Even though she has experienced many very rocky patches in life she has no desire to incorporate feelings of angst into her work.

Falling

Wenxu Zhao is an Illustrator based in New York City. She graduated from MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts in 2022. And she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Art With an Additional Major in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020. Her illustration works got shortlisted by Communication Arts in 2021.

Falling

The beauty of nature surrounding Los Angeles was the impetus for her entrance into the field of photography. Joanne began vigorously studying photography and other art arenas to hone her skills as a visual artist. In 2000, she graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a Master of Fine Art (MFA). She is now a full-time artist.

In addition to color and black and white film, Joanne shoots digitally employs the techniques of infrared imaging, and enjoys creating 3D anaglyphs to be viewed with red/blue lenses. As an extension of photography, she has branched out to do videos and has a YouTube Channel, THE VIDEO ART OF JOANNE CHASE-MATTILLO. Along with nature, Joanne frequently photographs female and male subjects in fun-themed studio shoots.

Joanne has exhibited throughout California, nationally, in Korea, France and England, Switzerland, Scotland, Greece, Spain, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Holland, Brazil, Dubai, and Italy. Her work has also been selected for Lunar Codex, a very special project partnered with SpaceX to deliver the images of art in a time capsule to be permanently affixed to the surface of the moon, selected by Era Contemporary Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as part of “Legends Of The Moon”.

Falling Apart!

Nancy Jacques is an oil painter, loves to draw, and is a photographer. For the past 17 years, she has created work from themes of social and environmental justice, as well as figurative narrative, which reflects her varied career in and out of the art world. She taught art, became a systems counselor, then took advanced ecological training to work on climate change issues, creating two non-profits and consulting. She wrote a book on the intersection of the psyche and environmental awareness and founded her own publishing company in Durango, CO, for regional writers of the Southwest. But she returned to art and deals with subject matter to evoke a viewer’s emotions.

Nancy’s artwork is held in private collections in Virginia, Kansas, and Arizona. She has exhibited work in the DC area, receiving Best in Show, and throughout Southern Arizona, where she has received two Honorable Mentions and two Best in Shows.

Nancy is a member of the International Society of Experimental Artists, the Portrait Society of America, the Southern Arizona Arts Guild, and the Arizona Photography Alliance. She has been a docent for the Tucson Museum of Art since 2015.

Nancy received her BFA degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976, additional training toward an MA in art, plus five years of advanced training at the Art League School, outside of Washington DC, beginning in 2009.

Falling Into Me

Growing up in the redwoods of Northern California provided me with endless inspiration from the natural world. As a self-taught artist, my paintings reflect a deep appreciation for the intricate details of the world around me.

Familiar Joy

Blood, an expressionistic painter, has exhibited in galleries and museums on four continents. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia; the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture in Montgomery, Alabama; and the Beach Institute Museum in Savannah, Georgia. Blood’s art has been shown at the Edgar Negret Museum in Bogotá, Colombia; the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea; and the Emami Art, Kolkata Centre for Creativity, Kolkata, India, as well as other galleries and museums in India. Her work was featured on the front cover of the North American Reciprocal Museums (NARM) Association quarterly.

She was selected as a visiting artist in the U.S. State Department’s ‘Art in Embassies’ program, such as the U.S. embassies in Liberia, Ethiopia, Guyana, and Austria. Several works have been shown as part of the embassy program in New York. In 2023, she was a special guest artist at the West Bund Museum (Shanghai, China) (https://www.kankanews.com/detail/DgwMV3jbZ2W), the Harmony Art Gallery (Shanghai), the US Embassy American Center (Shanghai), and New York University’s campus in Shanghai.

Blood studied painting under John Howard of Arkansas, a protege and colleague of Dr. Hale Woodruff, a legendary artist of the Harlem Renaissance.

As a student in the segregated South, she was the first black American to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in 1978. For two years, she was the protege of designer, sculptor, and Professor Emeritus Myron Brody, known for his ‘Sentascape’ series.