tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53765523994764056292012-01-13T20:02:18.080-08:00Sunset from Burnside Pastel 12X18Travis W. Wheeler...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15692583271338159343noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376552399476405629.post-37955763679652571752011-02-19T12:41:00.000-08:002012-01-13T20:02:18.091-08:00

Medium - Pastel on Gator BoardDimension - 15 X 19

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Medium - Pastel on Gator BoardDimensions - 12 X 16

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Mic Check

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Mic check

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Medium - PastelDimension - 14X18Price - SOLD

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The four main peaks are as follows from left to right... Unicorn, Cockscomb, the Echos and Cathedral.Medium - Pastel on toned paperDimension - 8X11Price - 75$

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Medium - Pastel on PaperDimensions- Price - SOLD

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Sure, I know it's a bit dramatic. This one, The Passion of the McChrist, and the other one of the TV/crucifix called Oh, the Gruesome Destiny... were all a short series I did to illustrate being discontent with the typical American lifestyle. Sometimes you gotta get in people's faces to get your point across. Then in a bit of irony they got a lot of good public feedback in Marquette, MI (a

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When I was 9 Mel Gibson was solving all the worlds problems on a little box in my living room, McDonald's was a meeting place for my cub scout meetings, and Ronald McDonald healed large groups of small, sick children. We stuffed our faces with junk food while unwittingly being indoctrinated with neo-conservative christian rhetoric. Between commercials and cub scout meetings Ronald had as much

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Sketch of an old abandon house in Humbolt

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I'm a sucker for drawing waterfalls. I've been doing studies from this little spot on a sandy part of the Merced river. Sooner or later I'll have a big finished pastel to show for it.Medium - Pastel on Toned PaperDimension - 8X11Price - 75$

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On the Tuolumne river, way up in the eastern Sierra Nevada's, there's a mind blowing swimming hole that I've spent countless hours at. This is a pastel drawing of that spot with Unicorn and Cathedral peak in the backround.Medium - Pastel on PaperDimensions - 15"X22"Price - 500$ (350$ for anyone who lives in Yosemite National Park at least 4 months year)

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Deep in the heart of Yosemite Valley there's a place called Boystown. I've lived there for about 2 years of my life. I'm leaving in one week and I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about this place. It's like living in a bar with sleeping quarters similar to the ones in Alien 3. You know that ship with all the loud noises and shady characters wandering around looking three sheets to the

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Wherever I live, I like to save space for spontaneous drawing. I’ll designate walls, pillars, cupboards or wooden planks. There is no specific idea in mind at first. I like to take the energy of whatever is happening at that particular moment and turn it into something that somewhat resembles a feeling I am having. A lot of the times it is boredom and pent up aggression that decides what my

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This drawing is a new version of an old poem I illustrated Medium - Pastel and Graphite on PaperDimensions - 9X11Price - SOLD

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Throughout college and the few years following I worked a variety of low end service industry jobs. This drawing expresses the frustration inherent with working a hard job for chump change, having terribly vindictive bosses, and accepting a complimentary chicken strip dinner on the window sill of the dish pit five or six nights a week. Millions of people make a living like this for their entire

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I'm not actually sure what the motivation for this drawing was. I did it in 2003 and displayed it in a few galleries around Marquette, MI alongside the other three in the "Americana" series. My professor at the time nicknamed drawings like these "psychoscapes". The title was GODDAMNIT for a while and caused some hilarious reactions that I was able to witness as I was the monitor in one of

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First attempt at a still life in oil. It was painted with the help of Alexander Rokoff at Rokoff studios in North Portland.

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This is a drawing of a path in Marshall, Michigan that has all sorts of history to anyone who grew up in the area. The image will be used on the cover of an album by a band named A Love Dog from Chicago, Illinois. Check them out on myspace.com. Medium - Pastel on Sanded Wallis PaperDimensions - 18X24Price - 600 $ without frame

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At May Lake (a high sierra camp in Yosemite National Park) there's a tree where the marmots have made a virtual palace of tunnels underneath the roots and granite. Locals (all 8 people that live at the camp) call it the marmot palace. This pastel was done mostly on site with a little work back in the studio. Medium - Pastel on PaperDimensions- 16X20Price - SOLD

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Here is a quick drawing of a women sleeping in a hostel in David, Panama.Medium - Graphite, Conte, and Tone PaperDimensions - 8X11Price - NFS

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This is an illustration of a poem by Charles Bukowski. I'd done the still life of the deer skull while going to school at Northern Michigan University in the deep, dark upper peninsula of Northern Michigan. A while later I came across the poem A need For Glue and added the text because of the relation of the broken bone at the ending. I've since lost it to some random closet at NMU.Medium -

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Two Apples and an Orange is one of my first still lifes in color. A few of the places it was exhibited at are the Marquette Community Art Center and more notably the Kalamazoo Institute of Art. It was sold out of the KIA gallery where it had been juried into the Western Michigan Regional Art Competition in 2005. (The signature in the lower right was replaced with my regular signature prior to

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The title for this one came from the writings of John Muir and the image is based on an experience I had on one of my first hikes in the High Sierras. In an effort to "out man" each other we ended up hiking 54 miles in 2 and a half days. I carried a heavy bottle of whiskey with me that never even got opened because of how sick we all felt anytime we got a chance to stop and drink it. This one

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Usually, I live in a small apartment or cabin which means I sleep and lounge in my studio. This is a photo of where I lived in the Clinton neighborhood of southeast Portland.

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I completed this illustration of my professor Tom Cappuccio having a discussion under the giant vaulted ceilings of the Milwaukee Institute of Art in 2003. Medium - Graphite and Conte on BoardDimensions - 16X21Price - 250.00

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"Colin Lives" is a drawing dedicated to my friend Colin who survived a 120 foot fall and two months in a coma. He is the guy with his back turned towards you. The image is based on a photo I took on one of our first of many adventures together. We were urban backpacking through the Bay area where we saw Tortoise play at the Filmore, slept in a backyard in Oakland, ate day old burritos, and

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El Tuskee and Unicorn Peak are my two favorite peaks in Yosemite National Park. This is a sketchbook, plein aire drawing I did sometime in the summer of 2005. It's a prep sketch for a number of studio paintings I am planning for the Tuolumne Meadows area.Medium - Pastel on Toned PaperDimensions - 8X11Price - 75$

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This is a finished version of a value study I did in preparation for an acrylic painting. I think it's interesting because of a certain tension you get from seeing the figure almost exiting the frame. The large clouds suggest a storm is coming in from sea and the boy looking away leaves you to wonder about his state of mind. I've yet to come up with a title that encompasses the tension I feel

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The importance in Still Death lies in technique and use of color as opposed to any social content. I am employing some new color theory and explorations into my technique that I picked up in a workshop by Alexander Rokoff in Northeast Portland. Medium - Pastel on PaperDemensions - 16 X22Price - 275.00

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I based this drawing off sketches and about a half dozen digital images I took on an early spring trip to the coast. Medium - Pastel on PaperDemensions - 12X24Price - 500.00

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The Panamanian Man was based from a quick photo my friend Charlee Wagner took of a serene man leaning out of pool room window in Bouqete Panama in the Chiriqui Highlands. It was at one of those moments that defines the reason for traveling to a foreign country with all of your possesions strapped to your back. We had been feverishly (sometimes literally with fevers) hopping around Costa Rica

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This is a depiction of the "alpine glow" from the ridge at May Lake where I spent last summer. By definition, the Alpine Glow is a rosey light that gets cast over the mountains as a result of light waves being bent and scattered as they travel long distances through earths dirty, particulate-filled atmosphere. I was working as a camp helper and had plenty of opportunities to sketch Mount Clark

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This is the first of many portland cityscapes to come. It is the view from the Burnside bridge facing southwest in February as the sun is setting. There are so many atmospheric effects behind the west hills at sunset that the possiblities are endless. I have been studying the Hudson River School painters of the late 1800's, John Constable, and JMW Turner for insight into capturing these

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