Tightrope-Lion progress 6 (2016) Painting by Oberlin The Artist

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  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Acrylic on Paper
  • Dimensions Height 7.9in, Width 5.9in
  • Categories Illustration Animal
This project began as a tiny, tiny sketch. The sketch grew bigger and moved around between different sketchbooks. I would see the image pop up when I was drawing something else. It was almost as if I had doodled the picture unconsciously. The picture got better and better but ultimately remained the same: one man walking above one lion. Eventually[...]
This project began as a tiny, tiny sketch. The sketch grew bigger and moved around between different sketchbooks. I would see the image pop up when I was drawing something else. It was almost as if I had doodled the picture unconsciously. The picture got better and better but ultimately remained the same: one man walking above one lion. Eventually I motivated myself to put some serious thought and effort into the sketch, turning it into a finished painting. I had always liked the image of someone walking, by choice that is, above and close to death. The simple color pallet pleases me, the same way focusing on the lion instead of the figure pleases me.
This painting is done on a sheet of textured paper and finished with many layers of gloss.

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Oberlin has always been an artist, developing a love for fountain pens at an early age and deciding to train both hands to draw. They had heard adults talk about a spooky thing called ‘arthritis’. The artist[...]

Oberlin has always been an artist, developing a love for fountain pens at an early age and deciding to train both hands to draw. They had heard adults talk about a spooky thing called ‘arthritis’. The artist is now ambidextrous.

Oberlin began having seizures and was diagnosed with epilepsy during their freshman year of college. Art helped tremendously. 

Some of Oberlin’s paintings come from sketches. Some of the paintings are scenes and shapes that mutate from color. The commonality is expression. The sketches themselves come from dreams and conversations. Some of these ideas have ruminated for months or years. Others happened in a flash.

Any of the art that you see may have since been painted over, traded, donated, given away, eaten, burned, buried or destroyed.

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