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2024-25 Paintings

rachel(le)

Hello folx, I haven’t shared my new work here since the end of 2023. Big ol’ oops. I always add them to the Art page on my website, but I like to post them to the blog for those subscribed. New work and some process pics are posted to my instagram (@swell_rachelle) and facebook (/dirtybrush.art) where I also share about the meaning of each piece. I would like to also inform you that my prices are now written below each piece (click the “i” on a phone) on the Art page.

Bonjour gang, je n’ai pas partagé mes nouvelles oeuvres ici depuis la fin de 2023. Oops! Je les ajoute toujours sur la page Art de mon site web, mais j’aime les afficher dans le blog pour ceux qui sont abonnés. Mes nouveaux morceaux peuvent aussi se trouver sur mon instagram (@swell_rachelle) et mon facebook (/dirtybrush.art) où je partage sur le processus de création et la signification de l’oeuvre. Je voudrais aussi vous informer que mes prix sont maintenant inscrit sous chaque image (cliquer le “i” sur un téléphone) sur la part Art.

Thanks for looking! Merci!

The Messengers • 20” x 20” • oil on cradled wood panel • $1,400

A Hundred Thousand Joys • 20” x 20” • oil on cradled wood panel • $1,400

Best Friends • 20” x 20” • oil on cradled wood panel • $1,400

Three Hearts and a Doughnut • 20” x 20” • oil on cradled wood panel • $1,400

At Any Given Time • 21” x 13 3/4”, framed • oil on wood panel • $1,010

Third Eyes • 20.5” x 24” • oil on wood panel, framed • $1,750

L0v3 B0mbS • oil on wood panel (fully palette knife painted) • not for sale

Creature Comforts / Holy Trinity • 20” x 24” oil on wood panel, framed • $1,680

Battlescraps • 23” x 14” • oil on wood panel • $1,125

Like Tears in Rain • 10” x 12” • pencil on wood-mounted bristol • not for sale

Save Yourself • 10” x 12” • pencil wood-mounted bristol • $425

Tuesday Smile • 11” x 14” • pencil on bristol • $500

Patchwork no.1 • 11” x 14” • pencil on bristol • $500

Thank you! Merci!

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Loving the Work

rachel(le)

Lesson learned

Still life graphite pencil drawing of a bear skull

On 11” x 14” on canson bristol

I’ll tell you something. I can sit there and question what I’m doing, where I’m going with my art, what meaning does it have for me, for anyone else, why this and not that…. Seriously. What am I even doing???

Then, when I eventually sit down to work, everything melts away. All the confusion, the angst, the incessant doubt, the existential dread, and I feel calm and my mind is clear and I find purpose. Right then, wordlessly, it all makes sense.

It doesn’t matter what I’m working on, if I think it’s good or bad or whether the imagery is important or useless or whatever. Just Working – not thinking about the work – but the actual doing, brings me indescribable peace.

So ya, maybe this is just a skull, reading glasses, a book. Maybe it can bring a chuckle, maybe in can spark feelings about the nature we are killing with our ignorance (seriously whatever floats your boat), but for me it was a bunch of hours of blissful work, especially after weeks and weeks of spiralling into a black hole of wtf-am-I-doing.

I love the work.

Thanks for looking.