COLOR ME

STRANGE

presents

Welcome to my world of unapologetically bold colors, where my eclectic and sometimes quirky subjects are the champagne fizz in a toast to Beauty, whimsicality, and the joy of vision and imagination.

I don’t have a deep and thoughtful statement for you to ponder. My work doesn’t carry a megaphone or march in protests, expose injustice, or tell you how you ought to feel on any given topic. It’s more of a confetti cannon shooting out love notes to color, line, shape, whatnots and why-nots — and an opportunity for you to acquire original art an affordable price.

Painting, for me, isn’t about making grand statements or solving life’s big questions; it’s about stepping back and saying, “Wow, I like this!” Yeah. How lowbrow. I know. Liking something because you think it’s pretty and it just appeals to you provokes sneers in art circles. Good thing I’m not in a circle. Or a box for that matter. Sure, I may sneak some Deep Meaning in. Maybe. But I don’t consider you obliged to decode a piece of art. Or to pay big money for something you can’t make heads or tails of.

And what’s pretty to me might spark something entirely different in you. Maybe my subject reminds you of your favorite childhood game of pretend, or the way the light hits your sleeping pet at dusk. Maybe it just makes you smile. Whatever you see in my work is valid—and honestly, I kind of love that you might see something I never thought of.

At the end of the day, my paintings are a celebration of the beautiful, the wondrous, and the deeply personal. They’re here for you to enjoy, interpret, and (hopefully) get a little lost in.

That self-portrait on this page isn’t one of my paintings, by the way. It’s a photograph that has been bullied into looking like a painting. Just want to be up-front about it.

Marlowe Grant

Artist & Creative

You may have asked yourself, “Self, is this artist using AI artifice to promote her art? What sorcery is this?” I would congratulate you on all that alliteration, and offer you the following explanation of what is going on in some of the videos on my YouTube channel.

I am sometimes incorporating AI into the video production to animate the painting. The videos are meant to be a more entertaining way to explore the featured work than simply looking at pictures of the painting. Yes it would be better to spend many hours making my own animations or spend thousands on pros. But…not happening.

As for the bio shot, it is one of my self-portrait photographs, not a painting. I am, however, oldish and plain, so it’s an old photo. Because… art. I don’t want to paint a self-portrait. I have to look at me quite enough.

So if you see shapes shifting, colors melting, and paintings brought to life, you are not hallucinating nor being deceived. The paintings offered are not prints of AI images — they are originals, hand painted on either paper or canvas with acrylics, or oils, or mixed media. These details will be found at the end of the video and on the web page for the painting. I trust it will be clear what is the actual painting, and what is not. In the case that my digital mojo is so convincing that confusion remains, please feel free to email me with any questions.

Chelsea Could Trot

Acrylic on Paper
Artist’s Collection

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