Tag: profile

• Layers: Leaving Winter

  

  Leaving Winter, 12in x 12in • Mixed media painting, 2021 • Carly Swenson

  Carly Swenson, Visual Artist

  April 12, 2021

  image progression, mixed media

  art, art development, artist, artistic process, artistic technique, collage, female profile, Minneapolis artist, Minnesota artist, mixed media, profile, space, unique art, universe

• Layers: Finding Light

  

  Finding Light, 12in x 12in • Mixed media painting, 2021 • Carly Swenson Finding Light (Detail image), 12in x 12in • Mixed media painting, 2021 • Carly Swenson

  Carly Swenson, Visual Artist

  April 12, 2021

  image progression, mixed media

  art, artistic process, artistic technique, female profile, lighthouse, mixed media, ocean art, profile, silhouette

• Layers: One with the Infinite

  

  Carly Swenson, Visual Artist

  May 4, 2020

  acrylic painting, image progression

  abstract art, abstract painting, abstract portraiture, acrylic art, acrylic paint, acrylic painting, art, black woman, Bloom True, female form, female profile, intuitive art, intuitive artist, intuitive painting, layered painting, painting, profile, surreal, surreal artist, surrealism

• Layers: Remind Me How It All Went Wrong

  

  Carly Swenson, Visual Artist

  May 28, 2018

  acrylic painting, image progression

  abstract art, art, art development, artistic process, artistic technique, birds, Carly Swenson Artist, colorful, female form, flowers, intuitive art, intuitive painting, layered painting, leaves, lungs, nature, negative space, profile, shells, step by step, surrealism, work in progress

• Layers: You say ‘We must hope’

  

  Carly Swenson, Visual Artist

  May 10, 2018

  acrylic painting, image progression

  abstract art, art, artistic process, artistic technique, Carly Swenson Artist, colorful, female form, flowers, hope, intuitive art, intuitive painting, layered painting, pattern, pink, profile, silhouette, stencil, surrealism, teal, work in progress

• Layers: Normal but powerfully destructive

  

  Normal but powerfully destructive • 12in x 24in • Mixed media painting • Carly Swenson • 2016 Detail images • Carly Swenson • 2016

  Carly Swenson, Visual Artist

  November 15, 2017

  image progression, mixed media, through a rabbit hole…

  acrylic, art, art development, artistic process, collage, cool colors, cursive, doorway, fertilization, handwriting, mixed media, moon, night, painting, profile, woman, work in progress

• the sketchbook project 2013: life is the art that you make

  

  Life is the art that you make. –Superchunk  

  Carly Swenson, Visual Artist

  November 25, 2012

  visual journal

  art, art pages, collage, drawing, ink, life, mixed media, profile, rabbit, sketchbook project 2013, snail, song lyrics, Superchunk, text

• 2008: Aesthetic Alchemy

  

  Back in 2008, I finished this series of surreal watercolor collage works.  The following images are sample works from this series.  Each piece is 9.5in x 12.5in watercolor collage on Arches coldpress watercolor paper.  The titles are inspired by the concept of Jenny Holzer’s truisms. 2008 was a time of a lot of life adjustments, […]

  Carly Swenson, Visual Artist

  December 20, 2011

  artist portfolio

  aesthetic alchemy, art, child-free, collage, dreamlike, inspiration, mixed media, painting, profile, social commentary, surrealism, truism, watercolor, women’s issues