Colorful Riverbeds Drawn / Ester Roi

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超漂亮彩铅河石画，来自美国南加州的女性艺术家和发明家Ester Roi，采用独自发明的温水画板作画法，将铅笔尖的不同色彩融合与平滑效果提炼到极致。柔和，温暖，清新，直接，简单，非凡。水的魔力，色彩的魔力，形状的魔力，艺术的魔力。艺术家在无尽的挑战中，发挥着想象力，陶醉而又尽兴的创作。她还画了很多花朵，猛击蓝色链接到她的网站上看更多。

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I am an artist and inventor living in Southern California. On this site I post new artwork, chronicle my progress as an artist, and keep you updated on my invention, the Icarus Drawing Board®. The Icarus Technique, where wax-based media is softened or melted on a heated drawing board, is the perfect method to achieve the smooth gradations and dissolving hues that permeate my art.
In the last several years I have been painting flowers and rocks and their interaction with water. I study them above and below the surface, and observe how their visual characteristics change and relate to each other.

I relish the contrast between a solid rock above the surface and its restless reflection below; the realistic depiction of a floating daisy versus its abstract, refracted counterpart. I marvel at how a flower can take on a new identity when floating below the surface and I strive to capture its ever-changing shape.

Water transforms everything it touches: hard lines become soft, warm colors cool, solid shapes break down into parts. Realism evolves into abstraction and the ordinary becomes extraordinary. The interplay between these realms is an endless source of inspiration for me.

I choose to create with colored pencils, artist crayons and oil pastels for their directness and simplicity. My process consists of a combination of drawing and painting. I alternate between working on cool and warm paper using the heated drawing board I invented.

The heat helps soften or melt the waxy pigments so they can be easily manipulated and blended in a painterly fashion. When finished, the artwork is mounted on a cradled board, varnished, framed and shown without glass.

I slowly came to realize how even my technique is a way to explore the relationship between opposing realms. I tirelessly switch from drawing to painting, from hard to soft, from wet to dry. One alone won’t satisfy me and having both is now a passion.

When I am in the midst of creating I become enchanted by the magic of water. Water represents the world of fantasy and imagination, where anything can happen and the unusual is never questioned. The world above water, ever brilliant, solid, and warm, can be at times rigid or harsh, and needs to be tempered by the softness and coolness below. My endless challenge, as an artist and as a human being, is to find a balance between the two.

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