The Dragon A (2019) Painting by Oberlin The Artist

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  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
  • Dimensions Height 48in, Width 48in
  • Framing This artwork is not framed
  • Categories Abstract Fantasy
This idea started as tiny thumbnail in the corner of a page. It grew bigger and more detailed each time I bothered to pay attention to it. The I think I got and new sketchbook and forgot about it altogether for, oh, a year or so. Eventually I dug back through the old sketchbook in search of ideas that weren't half-bad and discovered it again.[...]
This idea started as tiny thumbnail in the corner of a page. It grew bigger and more detailed each time I bothered to pay attention to it. The I think I got and new sketchbook and forgot about it altogether for, oh, a year or so. Eventually I dug back through the old sketchbook in search of ideas that weren't half-bad and discovered it again. I re-sketched it, the best yet. Then I had to wait for the seasons to change to do what I wanted, for reasons too stupid to explain. Eventually I was able to work in my studio as I wanted to with this idea. I had acquired the canvas that I wanted, I had the paint that I wanted. In a not complicated but rather tedious process, I created some large stencils for myself. I wanted to be sure that the image I made was even from all sides. I made positive and negative stencils from my painting, covered the canvas as it lay on my studio floor and splattered my idea all over it. The result is just what I hoped for. I was listening to Lou Reed the whole time.

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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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