Description
Ink drawing with airbrush highlights on illustration board of a tessellation of "Earth's Children," done in a Penrose paradoxical configuration of zero — a contradictory perspective of zero that cannot exist in reality. Zero is inherently paradoxical, making it the perfect symbol for the endless and eternal connections of all the children of the earth. We are one single story, always joined together.
Materials
Ink on illustration board.
Category
Drawing, Graphics and Mixed Media
Ronald Mitchell
Cherokee Nation
About the Artist
Award-winning artist Ron Mitchell, a member of the Cherokee Nation, has been a fixture around Native American art shows for five decades. He was born in Fort Benning, Georgia, on December 25, 1943, and raised on many different military bases in the United States and Germany. He spent many summers with his Cherokee grandmother, whose stories and legends of the Cherokee people inspired him and still influence his art today. Since that first show in 1970, the artist has made his living as a professional artist who is always ready to help others.
Through demonstrations and being a mentor to numerous beginning and established artists, he has shared his knowledge of art and art business experience. The prolific artist’s style evolved over the years, instinctively painting, drawing, and sculpting about his heritage and incorporating representations of impossible spaces, shapes, or objects turning into something completely different, and using the full spectrum of colors in his paintings, despite being red-green color blind, to create images that incorporated history, by telling a story that resonated with Cherokees and art collectors alike. Dreaming his dreams and thinking of old and new ways, his artwork reflects the hours of research and hard work.
Today, he is passing his experience and knowledge down to his son, granddaughter, and other artists, creating artwork that is as modern as today yet drawn from inspirations that link it to the past.
