Ian Mitchell
FUNNEL CLOUD

Ian is a less than half self taught artist
with a bent towards exsophisticated, progressive, aesthetic values
derived from living in the Midwest.
Getting that creative idea out of his mind
and into reality has been a life long necessity,
and that has been realized in many different forms.
This site is a collection of those items

photographs

front of kyles carscraper gearhippy houseretouched back of signhell frozengrain geardark cloudfunnel cloud retouch

Paintings

cook st. Denverdenver cook street 2mountianwaveCook stree in denver 3topo abstract plant lifeCandy wormssynapseGreat sand dunes two growths on my lawnAcrylic wash of an impression of an memory of the skyAcrylic Ink and wash of the farm at nightSpace treeabstract puebloBlock-O-rado Acrylic a acrylic ink and wash on paper of a god and his believer.Acrylic Ink and wash on paper of a cold front approaching from the North.Acrylic ink and wash of three barnsacrylic painting of a cylinder tree on the front range looking eastacrylic painting of a motherly typ of monster head

Drawings

line compositionorganized abstraction twoOrganized AbstractionZone line in BlueZone free Association

Digital

abstracted facesLamp shade tree with the over the top filtered image for the Background.Geometric abstract optical artDigital abstract racing art a cartoon hand for an animation sophisticate abstraction Still of a Three-D character. The long back is for a pan.Two door stops stopping each otherElectric conjoined cats.Kinetic Perspective Abstractionlamp shade tree no back groundPower linesA digital sketch out of an office window on a very grey day.Optical image "Blac Bloc"The geometric visualization of a blu beat intramentalIf a computer would draw something I believe this could the first one.An illustration I threw in, eh?Started out as a "stick to the rules" optical work, then regenerated into impressionismDigital work up for looking eastcircular optical artSelf portrait a Photo manipulation that resulted in a color fieldHal's Kin story board for an animationSelf portrait while hung overDr. Smarty PantsPhoto manipulation.Bent Cross or you could call it drooping crucifix tree.abstract star absrtacted star Clouds star incubatornebula like mineral diposite portraitcold abstraction of a starcircular optical art

SKETCH book

magic marker sketch of Abe Lincolnperspective view of mural planColor pencil sketch of the Great Sand Dunes in Coloradosculpture plan pencil and ink mural sketchColor pencil sketch of sun boxcrayon color field sketchColor pencil portrait sketch Color pencil sketch of a hedge rowColor pencil sketch of the Great Sand Dunes in Coloradosketches of the farm at night and 3 barnsDoodles, God Heads, Butt Heads, and other future Projects.doodlesLine practiceSketch up of a god and his believer, and in the bottom a tree with compartments.sketches of faces in the news before operation induring Iraqi occupation.Color pencil sketch of three leaning barns of the top, and on the bottom a color field impression sketchWart head viewsThree cylinder tree viewsSketch of a cold front approaching from the North.Assorted Totem's tiki's and flying god heads.Sketch of a tree trunk and root in the boundry waters.Ideas for bird houses, sketched up and inked.Inked sketch of a rual landscapeSeveral book ends, door stops, and book dividers

Sculpture

Front Veiw of a sand stone sculpture. It could be some sort of tiki god.Thee quarter Veiw of a sand stone sculpture. sculpted marble headSculpted marble head - side veiwplaster cast of mountain man sculptureplaster cast on mountain man sculpture - side viewMarble sculpture Toe HeadMarble sculpture of Toe Head - Front viewMarble sculpture of a god head lime stone sculpture of a long gone northern type god

Video

Blue beat buddy fundercandy landOld Reel24 hours of Aspenvertab motion

biography

The early years

You see I haven't been looking for people to buy my artwork until recently. Years ago I sold an oil stick drawing at a craft sale. The only reason I was a part of the crap sale, was that I was part of a coop gallery that ran on hard times and sold out their space to a craft club. My stuff was just left hanging on the wall out of sheer laziness on my part. At the end of the sale, I learned that it had been sold and when I asked about who had bought it, they hadn't taken that information down and it was paid for in cash. This caused a reaction in my self that is like loosing a member of your family. I don't mean loosing them as in dead, I mean loosing them as in you left your loved ones in the old country, never to see them again. In fact my grandma and aunt had that experience, and throughout my live until they died there was always speculation of where the rest of the family was, back in the old country behind the Iron curtain. So I resolved never to sale an original art work unless the price was right, and to sell more prints and casts. But now I'm having some problems letting go of the prints, so I'm going to sell them in a way that I will never see the prints, via Image Kind. I know this is wacky but it is what it is. Right now I'm leaning toward a traveling art show/peepshow and would sell cheap items on the way out of the exhibit.

But will I be able to ?

All images contained herein are Copyright Ian Mitchell.