Fredrik Rattzen

2012-01-05T05:54:00.000-08:00

A painting I did a few weeks back in school. We were supposed to paint a figure in an environment. I completely forgot about it and happened to stumple upon it while cleaning my desktop. Realising the original file is gone I thought I might aswell upload whats left of it before it disappears for good. Its been quite a while since I painted landscapes, but it was refreshing to just mess around. Make of it what you want. : )

2011-12-19T06:37:00.000-08:00

One of these days

Graphite & Digital

Destructive Interference

Acrylics & Digital

Two new pieces from the past few days. Been exploring acrylics lately, hoping it will breathe some life into my digital work.

2011-12-10T12:29:00.001-08:00

So, winter break has begun, which means some time for personal work. Here's something I did over a neglected sketch for a school assignment. Acrylics + digital

Signal Strength

2011-12-10T04:13:00.001-08:00

School assignment about the difficulties of communication between humans and technology due to technology becoming increasingly independent. I decided to introduce them into a complex environment where its vital that they stay in touch or they may be forever lost.

Turandot

2011-11-19T08:37:00.001-08:00

School assignment for the KC Lyric Opera. I decided to go with Turandot.

Self-portrait

2011-11-02T13:05:00.000-07:00

So, yesterday was the international self-portrait day. Better late than never. : )

2011-10-13T07:23:00.001-07:00

Here's a photo study for painting class. Acrylics on paper, 5x8 inches. Some digital color tweaking on top of that.

2011-10-07T04:16:00.000-07:00

Illustration for an article about the public libraries being shut down due to budget cuts. I chosed to focus on the people not being able to afford books: now they may have to start begging for it.

Edit: updated the image after getting some useful critics from the art director.

Graphite & Digital.

Ambition

2011-09-15T07:43:00.000-07:00

Ambition
Gouache, Watercolor, Graphite and Pastels on paper
13x28"

2011-09-09T11:54:00.000-07:00

We just keep getting those still life assignments.... So I guess i'll keep posting them. Topic was "white on white"

Mixed media on paper.

2011-09-03T03:27:00.000-07:00

All done... I hope!

Another still life from school. Sorry to bore you guys with these.. anyway, same process as the previous ones, but with some minor digital tweaks at the end.

2011-08-29T05:44:00.000-07:00

A few more still lifes from school.. its decent practice, I guess.

Watercolor, gouache and pastels on paper. 10x10,5"

2011-08-24T10:19:00.000-07:00

Birth, part two, Digital

Also school has begun again... Here's a still life assignment I did yesterday. I decided to paint a deer skull that my previous work was inspired from. Gouache, watercolor and pastels on paper.

re:birth

2011-08-12T05:08:00.000-07:00

been exploring different mediums lately... : )

Graphite, Watercolor, Gouache & Pastels on paper.

part one of two.

2011-08-02T08:14:00.000-07:00

Sinner. Graphite & Digital.

Felt like trying something a little bit different. : )

Lykke Li

2011-06-30T06:00:00.000-07:00

she's awesome so I had to do an illustration.

Dreamteller

2011-06-13T07:27:00.000-07:00

experiment... : )

2011-06-01T16:20:00.000-07:00

Here's a diptych me and Alex Konstad (http://alexkonstad.blogspot.com)have been working on together for quite some time.

2011-05-24T07:28:00.001-07:00

some pastel figure drawing.. more to come!

110506

2011-05-05T16:22:00.000-07:00

lately.

2011-04-28T12:48:00.001-07:00

School assignment, we were supposed to do a cover about something we think is current. I went for the music industry.

Getting into oils... random landscape thing, messy but fun!

2011-04-13T13:24:00.000-07:00

Here's a piece I did for an assignment about duets. A great deal of experimentation went into this, and its pretty messy in some parts, but for me, those areas really contributes to the overall energy of the piece.

2011-04-07T00:36:00.000-07:00

So, I got selected as this months featured artist at TAD, which is really exciting! TAD has been more than I could've ever hoped for, and for that I'm really grateful. I want to take this opportunity and thank the whole faculty at TAD for doing such a great job. You guys are just awesome.

For those of you interested, here's the short interview as well as some things I've been doing during TAD.

http://theartdepartment.org/student-spotlight/fredrik-rattzen

2011-04-04T10:34:00.000-07:00

Major update with some of the work I've been doing for TAD for the past few months. Some of it I believe has shown been shown before.

2011-04-03T15:00:00.000-07:00

Here are two somewhat recent things I've been working on, more to come.

A piece I did for an assignment about citizens taking part in space travel.

Routine, sketch