PHILOMATH OPEN STUDIOS 2018 OCTOBER 20-21, 27-28 NOON-5
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DEBI LYN FRIEDLANDER

Debi Friedlander
friedlander2.com

My recent art combines a variety of methods:

"Colored Pencil PhotoFusion" uses a multi-layered technique combining the best of digital photography with the classical rigor of traditional colored pencil painting.  The technique maintains a photographic realism while allowing the "hand of the artist" to shine. My photographs are a jumping off point for a continuing artistic journey. I adjust and manipulates the digital originals to achieve promising base images, which are then printed on archival artists’ papers. The translucent colored pencil layers create an evolution in color harmonies, pushing the images in ways that often create dreamlike or romanticized realities, both painterly and photographic, and recapture the feelings of a scene usually lost to the camera "eye".

"Capella" art features small pieces painted with musical accompaniment, often in coffee shops, bars, and other live music venues. Also a layered technique, they begin as ink drawings with watercolor washes. Textural elements and colored pencil are the top layers. They tend to be more spontaneous than the Colored Pencil PhotoFusion technique allows, but also use layered techniques. They work especially well for my pet portraits.

Alcohol Inks are brilliant, fluid colors that are especially wonderful for showing liquidity and movement, and seem especially well suited to themes of water, biology, microcosms, and the environment. The colors are vibrant on ceramic tile and glass, especially when sealed with resin.


My art emphasizes individuality, visual and emotional depth, and complexity.  Elements are emphasized, hidden, or reworked to create entirely new compositions - paintings that are subtle or flamboyant, impressionistic or realistic, intimate, metaphoric, or combinations of these.

Everything I paint is a portrait. My favorite subjects are people, flowers, animals and water. My art is an attempt to communicate the beauty of their spirit, individuality, and fragility of their world.
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Photo by John Friedlander
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  • Home
  • Host Artists
    • Jerri Bartholomew
    • Mike Bergen
    • Faye Cummins
    • Dale Donovan
    • Debi Friedlander
    • Babette Grunwald
    • Jeff Gunn
    • Susan Johnson
    • Lee Kitzman
    • Kate McGee
    • Kris Mitchell
    • Marianne Post
    • Kat Sloma
    • Merrill Sommers
    • Debby Sundbaum-Sommers
  • Visiting Artists
    • Keith Bowers
    • Mark Choitz
    • Robin Cordova
    • Kirsten Dixon
    • Rhoda Fleischman
    • Suzanne Getz
    • Tamera Greiter
    • Linda Herd
    • Carol Houk
    • Sally Ishikawa
    • Randye Jensen
    • Heather Kier
    • Cris Kostol
    • Ann Lahr
    • Amelia Lawson
    • Becca Lemon
    • Jennifer Lommers
    • Geneva Mellison
    • Rinee Merritt
    • Thomas Penix
    • Rani Primmer
    • Lyn Radosevich
    • Beth Rietveld
    • Judith M. Sander
    • Jacob Stark
    • Steve Terhune
    • Emily Thomas
    • Biwa Tomono-Duval
  • Artists A-Z
  • Map
  • Brochure
  • Sponsors
  • Contact us