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.
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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.

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.


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.
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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