These three abstract expressionism artworks are a series of 17″x21″ drawings created with charcoal, chalk, and pastels. The inspiration is primarily emotional and nihilistic; meditations on the imprint of life in an abstract expressionist style.

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This is an abstract drawing of a tornado. The 19″x25″ artwork was drawn with charcoal and pastels.

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The following drawings of faces are a series of abstract portraits of women and girls. The 9″x12″ artworks were created with a variety of mediums, including watercolors, colored pencils, oil pastels, pens, markers, acrylics, and paint pens.

Blue Woman
9″x12″

Lips
9″x12″

Hair
9″x12″

Lightning
9″x12″

Toof
9″x12″

Red Woman Glare
9″x12″

Yellow Eyes
9″x12″

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The following drawings of sad faces are abstract portraits of girls with different types of grief. The 9″x12″ artworks were created with colored pencils, pens, markers, oil pastels, watercolors, and acrylics.

Drawing of a Grieving Girl
9″x12″

Drawing of a Depressed Girl
9″x12″

Drawing of a Melancholy Girl
9″x12″

Drawing of a Sad Girl
9″x12″

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This is a series of abstract drawings entitled “Isolated Flowers”. Each individual drawing is 4″x6″ and the entire series is approximately 13″x18″. The mediums used to create the artwork include pens, markers, watercolors, acrylics, and oil pastels.

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It’s a 9″x12″ drawing of a bear car, created with colored pencils, oil pastels, pens, watercolors, and acrylics.

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This is an abstract drawing of a dog entitled “Dream Dog”. The 9″x12″ artwork was drawn and painted with colored pencils, watercolors, pens, oil pastels, and acrylics.

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This is a 9″x12″ abstract artwork entitled “Brain”. The abstract art was completed in 2011 with a variety of mixed media, including paint pens, oil pastels, pens, watercolors, gouache, and acrylics. Multiple layers of paint were applied to the canvas paper in order to create patterns of color, shape, and value. The abstract painting was [...]

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This is an abstract drawing of a flower. The 11″x14″ abstract flower drawing was created in 2011 with paint pens. Outlines of whimsical shapes and patterns were sketched with the paint pens using a variety of colors. Emphasis was placed on alternating similar and dissimilar colors to create unique patterns of value changes throughout the flower artwork.

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These are two self-portraits of/by artist Michael D. Edens. The 9″x12″ artworks were drawn and painted in 2011 with a variety of mediums. The first self-portrait, entitled “Self-Portrait”, was drawn with pens, oil pastels, paint pens, watercolors, and gouache. The second self-portrait, entitled “Uneasy Self-Portrait”, was drawn with colored pencils, oil pastels, and watercolors.

Unique layering and coloring techniques were used in each self-portrait in order to create interesting visual styles. For example, watercolors are painted over naturally repelling oil pastels to create an uneasy imbalance of organically flowing swirls and pooling colors amidst irrepressible lines.

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This is a previous 9″x12″ self-portrait created as part of the Rainbow Color Portraits – Series 1.

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