OIL PASTEL DRAWING -- "REGENERATION"

New -- “Regeneration” – oil pastel drawing on 12” x 18” mixed media paper –– expressionist mode © 2015 Wes Rehberg

OIL PASTEL DRAWING - "VISITORS DEBARK FROM 3D CRUISE"

“Visitors Debark From 5D Cruise” – oil pastel experimental sketch on 16” x 20” fine-tooth primed matte board.... (c) 2015 Wes Rehberg

NEW - "STILL LIFE: STUFF IN THE FRIDGE" - OIL PASTEL DRAWING

New – “Still Life: Stuff in the Frig,” oil pastel drawing on 9” x 12” mixed media paper – Looking over my "œuvre d'art" I realized I had only done one still life since my return to painting and drawing last May (the other is below). Cezanne, for example, painted dozens of them. So I thought I should do the responsible thing with this convention, maybe unconventionally, so here’s another, in an expressionist way (which means I don’t have to worry about the rules of perspective, light and color).. . (c) 2015 Wes Rehberg

The other still life ... "Still Life with Buddha and a Statue" - 24" x 30" acrylic painting on canvas ... (c) 2014 Wes Rehberg

OIL PASTEL DRAWING -- "VISITOR AT THE CITY GATE" -- NEW

New artwork-- "Visitor at the City Gate" -- oil pastels on 18" x 12" mixed media paper,, applied directly as well as modified with tortillions and brushed turpenoid - (c) 2015 Wes .Rehberg 

OIL PASTEL DRAWING -- "ANOINTED IN THE WILDERNESS"

 New -- "Anointed in the Wilderness (Luke 4:14-19)” – oil pastel drawing on 18” x 12” mixed media paper –  © 2015 Wes Rehberg …

THREE RECENT OIL PASTEL DRAWINGS - EXPRESSIONIST STYLE?

Three recent oil pastel drawings - expressionist style ...

"Dimension Flyby in Color" -- oil pastel drawing on 18" x 12" mixed media paper -- some left as directly applied, some brush washed with Turpenoid, some smoothed with a tortillion ... (c) 2015 Wes Rehberg

"Arise … !" - oil pastel drawing on 9" x12" mixed media paper - I like to use Sennelier and Caran D'ache Neopastels basically. the paper is 140 lb Strathmore - (c) 2015 Wes Rehberg

“The Offering,” oil pastels on 9” x 12” mixed media paper, also using a brushed Turpenoid wash and tortillion blending... surreal expressionist mode - © 2015 Wes Rehberg

"TOUCH" -- EXPRESSIONIST ACRYLIC PAINTING..

New one, basically completed -- "Touch" -- acrylic painting on 24" x 30" canvas in expressionist mode -- (c) 2015 Wes Rehberg ...

"SELF-PORTRAIT AFTER A CUP OF FAUVIST COFFEE" -- OIL PASTEL DRAWING

New – “Self-Portrait After a Cup of Fauvist Coffee” – drawing on 9” x 12” mixed media paper – oil pastels direct, tortillonized, and via a brushed Turpenoid wash.

 © 2015 Wes Rehberg …

"EDDIE REHBERG, ANIMATED CARTOONIST" -- OIL PASTEL DRAWING ...

New one -- "Eddie Rehberg, Animated Cartoonist," oil pastel on 9" x 12" mixed media paper -- incomplete but I'm letting it be ...

(c) 2015 Wes Rehberg

This portrait lends a history of his bout with tuberculosis that hospitalized him for almost four years during the 1940s, his start with Max Fleischer in Los Angeles in the ‘30s, his firing by Paul Terry for union organizing, his blackballed years when he lived alone in a NYC hotel room, his work with Reed Ray in Minnesota, and his finish with Hanna-Barbera in California, a career redemption as an animation cartoonist and director. My brother, mother and I did not live with him from my age 6 on. He and my mother, who also worked in the animation industry, separated. Years later, he fathered my half-sister, Lori, now an illustrator, a little before my daughter Stacey was born. My kids met him. There’s ironic gaps in all this.