Crayon Abstract Realism

JEFFREY ROBERT CRAYOLA ORIGINAL ART OF CHIEF JOSEPH & AMERICAN HORSE

My latest crayon original, AMERICAN HORSE, reminded me of another piece I created earlier in my career entitled, CHIEF JOSEPH, where I strived to create photo-realistic images using only a simple box of Crayola Crayons as my art medium. Although I have not moved away from realism with crayons, I've begun to explore the emotional power of the process that compels me to think farther outside the box.

NEW STORYBOOK DESTINATION SERIES

POLAR NIGHT by Jeffrey Robert The Crayon Artist

A cold and starry night in the warmth of a mother's love is the plight of the ice bear and her cub. Lonely and remote by all appearances...home is still where the heart is.

POLAR NIGHT, OUT OF AFRICA and HOME ON THE RANGE are the first of three creations in my STORYBOOK DESTINATION SERIES. 

Along with my concept of crayons, I am recapturing the enjoyment of the "child within." Within this creative process, I can begin to sense a familiar feeling of hope and wonder. It's an exciting emotion that transported a curious imagination to far away places once explored as a child. This "Story Book" art style welcomes back those feelings and helps me to remember how life is intended to be more vibrant and unrestricted by boundaries, times and circumstances.

EMAIL TO INQUIRE ABOUT THE ORIGINALS IN THIS SERIES.

THE STORYBOOK DESTINATION SERIES IMAGES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE IN MY ART SHOP IN ARTIST EDITIONS & CRAYON COLLECTIBLES.

www.TheCrayonArtist.com 

DUKE KAHANAMOKU

WORDS I LIKE TO REMEMBER


For many of us who grew up in Hawaii, it does us well to remember the words of Duke’s mother who use to tell her children “Go out as far as you want. Never be afraid in the water." 

Duke Kahanamoku was baptized in the ocean according to ancient custom. His father and uncle took him out in an outrigger canoe when he was a small boy and threw him into the surf. "It was swim or else," Duke later recalled. "That's the way the old Hawaiians did it." 


I also was inducted in the ocean in this manner by one of my Hawaiian Uncles when I was a young boy and the water has been second nature to me ever since.  Aloha Friday from the Hawaiian Crayon Artist!