ARTWORK RATING: 10/10
Ric Hall and Ron Schmitt are a couple of guys living in the Pacific Northwest who produce the most unusual pastels and paintings I’ve seen in a long time. As soon as I saw their work I knew I had to interview them! Their work is, to me, very profound–it’s so full of questions and possibilities we’d never consider unless we’d seen these images.
I invite you to click on the IDareYouRadio logo above to listen in as I interview them. They work on the same pieces at the same time, side-by-side, totally defying the myth of the Artist Ego!
One is a veteran world-traveller, one is a love-to-stay-at-home guy, happy to never leave his backyard.
One is a let’s-just-do-art and nevermind the galleries guy, the other markets.
As they leave their egos behind, they create these marvelous, compelling images, standing side-by-side as they create each image in gemlike pastels.
The ones you see here are only a couple of their huge collection.
Click here for their site: Schmitt-Hall-Studios.com.
Run your mouse over each image for its title, and click on any one of them to go to the interview.
I think their work is amazing, mysterious, and really powerful.
I really love the color, the emotion and the sheer mystery in each piece which allows the viewer to make up his own story about what’s going on. If you love their work, I invite you to support their vision by getting one of their prints–or two or three!
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Art is an entirely subjective experience–do you love this work the way I do? What do you love, hate or admire about it? Maybe you aren’t familiar with how difficult it can be for two artists to work on one project, much less side-by-side all day on one piece at a time! Could you do that? Comments are open….
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