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Lisa Raymer

Predominant medium:

Colored pencils: The tactile quality of colored pencils, when used on a textured surface, delivers an unexpected vitality. Scraping the pencils back and forth, cross hatching layers, colors saturate; atmospheric depth ensues. Pencils succumb to the sharpener’s blade at an alarming rate. Blurry scribbles or carefully rendered? It depends.

Secondary Medium: Egg Tempera. I find egg tempera is the perfect wet medium for me when I want extreme detail and translucent color. I have worked in egg tempera since the early 1980s, self taught, focusing mainly on portraits then. Now I see it as an alternative to colored pencil when needed.

Predominant theme: The insignificant becomes significant. Definition of insignificance: not worth consideration. To me, everything has significance with the proper perspective. I interrogate the insignificant. I seek its beauty.

A bit about me:

Native Texan, moved to Portland, OR in 2012. I should have come here a lot sooner.

Spent time in London, England, studying portraiture on my own. One of the best ways was as a street artist doing portraits in pastel pencils at Piccadilly Circus.

Awards:

People’s Choice Award – Oregon Society of Artists, 2020 Spring Show

International Guild of Realism (must be juried in to be offered membership)

Art2Life International Show – selected into final 50 artists featured

Joseph Polley Paine Art Award – Sam Houston State Univ., Huntsville, TX, back in the Dark Ages

Please visit my “About” page on my website for solo and group art show listings.

Email: lisatraymer (at) gmail.com

Website:  www.lisaraymer.com

Permission for use of any image in this gallery or on this website is required.

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