Unique paintings and more by contemporary artist Shelly Leitheiser
Proprietary Information
Proprietary Information is an 18″ x 24″ acrylic painting completed in 2012. It’s very colorful and interesting because it has a sort of not-very-apparent environmental meaning. In a few days I’ll put the explanation for that here, and that’s so I can find the news story that inspired its meaning. It is not yet for [...]
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Rio On Pools
This is based on a photo I took in Belize at the Rio On Pools area of southern Belize. It’s a hard place to find, but once you are there, it’s worth it. The water is warm and the pools are fast flowing and dangerous in spots, but it’s a great place to swim or [...]
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Mercado Market Colors
This is a very colorful watercolor, 22″ x 28″ framed, of a mercado, or market, scene in Costa Rica. So yes, the title is redundant. This is only a detail of the painting. If you are interested in buying it I’ll send you a complete image. It’s based on my own photo taken in 2010 [...]
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Polar Struggle
Polar Struggle is a depiction of how the habitat for polar bears, seals and penguins is changing and in a state of climate chaos as the ice melts. The movement in the image depicts these chaotic changes. It is part of my Endangered series. This is acrylic on canvas-covered painting board, 2012. If you would [...]
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Grizzly
This painting is called “Grizzly” and is part of a new project called Endangered, which will be seen, partially, in St. Cloud this summer. It will be an ongoing series, in addition to Imbalance and Image-inations, to be seen this year at Minnesota shows. This is acrylic on watercolor paper, is 30″ x 22″ [...]
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Swimming in Kelp
This is a watercolor of two lovely kelp farmers — kelp being one type of energy of the future — swimming in a kelp farm. Kelp farms are mostly underwater so obviously these two are able to breath underwater, another possibility given what people in the future are facing with sea level rise. Climate scientists [...]
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