Visual Thoughts
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Discover the surreal world of S. Summerbell Chval. From the darkness of the subconscious, she transforms serious concerns of the day, both personal and universal, into small, thought provoking images with vibrant colors and intricate detail using watercolor pencils. Reality and imaginative elements blend seamlessly providing a unique artistic experience.
Pandemic Phantasm, above, was created after following local waterways for days on end and imagining water catching on fire in a world that seemed more unreal than ever.
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Portfolio
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A couple half human half bird balance in an idyllic garden on a mostly real flower. But it looks unreal.
A reflection of two trees in running water became an unusual couple and two profiles in the ever changing world of coupledom.
A self portrait of sorts. Even I don't understand all my parts
A couple half human half bird balance in an idyllic garden on a mostly real flower. But it looks unreal.
Angst
The human condition
Not a hard place in sight
The human condition
Hope and Universal Problems
Blind Hope fingers crossed is surrounded by fear and pain. Nothing can be understood without its opposite. The thing with wings can lay an egg. Let's hope it's golden.
Turn this every which way. Polarization or societal divisions--whichever way you look at it it looks different depending on your point of view but we are all one.
She's in a winter mood. People have gone underground to deal with climate change.
Blind Hope fingers crossed is surrounded by fear and pain. Nothing can be understood without its opposite. The thing with wings can lay an egg. Let's hope it's golden.
Mortality
Resting in the arms of a dove/mountain and another creature in California.
Made the night my sister died.
Outrageous fortune comes from all directions but the elephant strong warrior takes up arms and shield. His colors sing of being.
Resting in the arms of a dove/mountain and another creature in California.
Early Work
An unlikely couple-- a lion part male and part female and a Secretary Birdman-- stroll through the garden ignoring the snake in the grass and a shy rabbit. This won a prize for drawing.
Frog contemplates snacking on a Lightning Bug. Will the fairy warn him that he risks dire consequences, save him with magic or sit back and not get involved?
Faced with an excruciatingly awful still life, I did this. Desire, in this case hunger in the form of a Flying Dragon, makes the weather vane come alive.
An unlikely couple-- a lion part male and part female and a Secretary Birdman-- stroll through the garden ignoring the snake in the grass and a shy rabbit. This won a prize for drawing.
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