This original oil painting, titled Madrona, depicts a slightly abstracted burl of a Pacific madrona tree. This beautiful tree is characterized by a smooth orange-red trunk and colorful, peeling bark.
$5.99 Gangsta is a trompe l’oeil that features a $5.99 thrift store mirror and a postcard from the 2004 Wedge Gallery “Dissention Convention” group art exhibition, which depicts a bandana-clad George W. Bush, George Washington mashup. The artist of the postcard is unknown (if you know the artist’s name, please contact me).
Trompe l’oeil is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects (the mirror and postcard) exist in three dimensions.