larry paul
An award-winning artist who creates unique works of art using Prismacolor colored pencils, inks, graphite, tape, erasure, and eraser shavings. larry paul’s subject matter includes old, decaying doors and windows, interesting facades, and his expressions of the sunsets of Cortez Fishing Village and Anna Maria Island, Florida. The artist’s work is found in several private collections.
Original artwork by larry paul may be available for purchase. Art pieces generally range from $350-$950. The artist currently does not offer prints for sale, though for some art, it may be available. When available, hand-signed prints are $165 and include shipping.
Contact the artist for more information or to inquire about a piece.
thru-things®
The thru-things series presents an impressionistic realism quality focusing primarily on architectural openings and objects. Both color and monotone drawings are considered. The preferred composition usually consists of offset or partial close-ups of decayed/aged building elements and areas. Doors and windows that have been painted with vivid, yet now fading colors in real life are preferred subjects for drawing. Dark and light suggestive interior ghost shapes seen beyond the windows, or a door that may be ajar, are bonuses to the artwork in that they allow the observer to think about what activity is taking place, or not, or is hiding behind the full or partial opening.
Thru-Things®
Exp. 221 – “Door 14”
19″ x 24″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 248 – “Door 16”
19″ x 24″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 259 – “Door 17”
19″ x 24″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 267.214 – “No.2”
19″ x 24″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 202 – “Door 7”
19″ x 24″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 309.31
12″ x 16″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 313 – “Door 18”
16″ x 20″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 222 – “Door 15”
19″ x 24″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 218 – “Door 12”
19″ x 24″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 220 – “Door 13”
19″ x 24″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 210 – “Door 10”
19″ x 24″
SOLD
Thru-Things®
Exp. 206 – “Door 9”
19″ x 24″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 204 – “Door 8”
19″ x 24″
SOLD
Thru-Things®
Exp. 201 – “Door 6”
19″ x 24″
SOLD
Thru-Things®
Exp. 101
19″ x 24″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 212 – “Door 11”
19″ x 24″
Thru-Things®
Exp. 195 – “Door 5”
18″ x 24″
Thru-things®
Exp. 96 – “Door 4”
19″ x 24″
Thru-things®
EXP. 152 – “Boat 1”
24″ x 18″
Thru-things®
Exp. 147 – “Shed 5”
18″ x 24″
thru-things®
Exp. 142
18″ x 24″
thru-things®
EXP. 89
19″ x 24″
SOLD
thru-things®
EXP. 91
19″ x 24″
SOLD
Thru-Things®
Exp. 96 – “Door 4”
18″ x 24″
Thru-things®
Exp. 111 – “Shed 2”
19″ x 24″
Thru-things®
Exp. 86
19″ x 24″
Thru-things®
Exp. 93
18″ x 24″
SOLD
Thru-things®
Exp. 82
18″ x 24″
Thru-things®
Exp. 76
18″ x 24″
Thru-things®
Exp. 65
19″ x 24″
Thru-things®
Exp. 74
19″ x 24″
Thru-things®
Exp. 77
18″ x 24″
Thru-things®
Exp. 84
18″ x 24″
Thru-things®
Exp. 63 – “Urban Facade 214”
19″ x 24″
Thru-things®
Exp. 60
18″ x 24″
SOLD
Anna Maria Island and Cortez Fishing Village Sunsets
Personal, yet open and outwardly expressive, the Sunsets series presents an abstract expressionistic quality with an overlapping and abutting color technique that contrasts and brings the movements together at the same time. The typical colors are easily inspired by a wild brilliance offered by the mix of sunsets, storms, and open blue and green water. There is a rather “angry” application method in creating these artworks as noted in some frenzy of the pencil strokes, yet anger and calm can be appreciated together. The beauty of a fishing village often combines its aged infrastructure with the beauty and color of sunsets and the water vessels that are found within them in what becomes a creatively expressed scene or seascape.
AMI 69
EXP. 214
18″ x 24″
AMI 84
EXP. 255
19″ x 24″
AMI 96
EXP. 294
18″ x 24″
AMI 97
EXP. 96
18″ x 24″
AMI 98
EXP. 298
18″ x 24″
AMI 99
EXP. 299
19″ x 24″
AMI 100.1
EXP. 301
19″ x 24″
AMI 102
EXP. 303
19″ x 24″
AMI 103
EXP. 304
19″ x 24″
AMI 104
EXP. 307
16″ x 20″
AMI SUNSET
EXP. 43 – “AMI VIII”
19″ x 24″
SOLD
AMI Sunset
“Unknown”
18″ x 24″
AMI Sunset 67
Exp. 211 – “Breakwater Lagoon”
18″ x 24″
AMI Sunset 64
Exp. 207 – “Fences”
18″ x 24″
AMI Sunset 53
Exp. 189
19″ x 24″
AMI Sunset 47
Exp. 180
19″ x 24″
AMI Sunset 30
Exp. 153 – “Steps to Alizaron”
18″ x 24″
SOLD
AMI Sunset 26
Exp. 140
18″ x 24″
AMI Sunset 6
Exp. 34 – “Seagulls”
18″ x 24″
AMI Sunset
Exp.184 – “AMI 50”
18″ x 24″
AMI Sunset
Exp.181
19″ x 24″
AMI Sunset
Exp.173
18″ x 24″
AMI Sunset
Exp.194 – “Sails”
19″ x 24″
SOLD
AMI Sunset
EXP 170 – “AMI 40”
24″ x 18″
AMI Sunset
EXP 160 – “AMI 36”
24″ x 18″
AMI Sunset
EXP 155 – “AMI 32”
24″ x 18″
AMI Sunset
EXP. 109 – “AMI XI”
18″ x 24″
AMI Sunset
EXP. 41 – “AMI VII”
18″ x 24″
AMI Sunset
EXP. 110 – “AMI XXII”
19″ x 24″
AMI SUNSET
EXP. 84– “AMI 15”
18″ x 24″
AMI Sunset
EXP. 94 – “AMI XVII”
18″ x 24″
AMI SUNSET
EXP. 85 – “AMI XVI”
18″ x 24″
SOLD
AMI SUNSET
EXP. 14 – “AMI CONCEPT”
18″ x 24″
AMI SUNSET
EXP. 58 – “AMI X”
18″ x 24″
SOLD
AMI SUNSET
EXP. 20 – “AMI II”
19″ x 24″
AMI SUNSET
EXP. 78 – “AMI XIV”
18″ x 24″
SOLD
AMI SUNSET
EXP. 64
18″ x 24″
SOLD
AMI SUNSET
EXP. 75 – “AMI XIII”
18″ x 24″
AMI SUNSET
EXP. 62 – “AMI XII”
19″ x 24″
AMI SUNSET
EXP. 25 – “AMI V”
19″ x 24″
SOLD
Cortez Fishing Village
Exp. 279
19″ x 24″
SOLD
Cortez Fishing Village
Exp. 183 – “Cortez 15”
18″ x 24″
Cortez Fishing Village
EXP. 163 – “Cortez 21”
24″ x 18″
Cortez Fishing Village
EXP. 148 – “Cortez 17”
24″ x 18″
Cortez Fishing Village
Exp. 138 – “#14”
18″ x 24″
SOLD
Cortez Fishing Village
EXP. 123 – “Capt. Dan/Cortez 12”
18″ x 24″
SOLD
Cortez Fishing Village
EXP. 108 – “Cortez #6”
19″ x 24″
CORTEZ FISHING VILLAGE
EXP. 46 – “NET ARRAY”
18″ x 24″
CORTEZ FISHING VILLAGE
EXP. 37 – “GREEN FLASH”
19″ x 24″
SOLD
CORTEZ FISHING VILLAGE
EXP. 38
18″ x 24″
Dirty Composition
Both styles reflect a dirty composition that leaves all details of the drawing process on the media surface. This way, the observer can see part of the process held in time of the drawing such as scale grids, notes, smudges, errors, tears, paper edges, etc. According to the artist, an artwork is truer and more complete when revealing these qualities instead of cleaning them up for final presentation. Eraser and pencil shavings can create surficial textures in the art during drawing and are rarely brushed away. The full sheet of the media surface is also preserved and becomes part of the art presentation. Clear adhesive tape is found in some of the art because its application also creates textural effects. Erasure, irregular perspectives, and unusual compositions are important elements of each style that give his drawings a certain edginess and friction. The closer one looks, the more poignant this edginess reveals itself.
INQUIRY/QUESTIONS
larry paul
CREDENTIALS
- B.A. in Liberal Arts from The University of the State of New York
- Master’s of Arts in Urban Design from the University of Florida
- Doctorate in Historic Preservation and Architecture from the University of Florida
- Represented by
- Island Gallery and Studios, Bradenton, FL (occasional guest artist)
- The Artist’s Guild of Anna Maria Island, Holmes Beach, FL