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GENERAL ART ARCHIVE

Most of the artwork featured in this page is for display purposes only. If an item is available to purchase, clicking the image will take you to the respective Gallery page. Please visit our Main Gallery to view all the artwork we currently have available.

Priestess

Copper Curls

January

Beyond The Horizon

Nice Normal Woman

Afrodite

Eye Of The Storm

Future So Bright

The Conductress

Couch Potatoes

Cultura

Liquid Lucidity

Purple Mantra

Royalty

Violet Suffussion

Exoplanet

Candy

Orchard Maiden

Singular

Sunset at Pfeiffer Beach

Butterflies

Dragonfly

Stained Glass

“Using various cups, bowls and lids that I had on hand, I sketched several designs before coming up with the beautiful symmetry seen here. The wash of blues and pinks creates the illusion of expertly cut glass, therefore this one’s name, Stained Glass.”
— Jodi Arias

Melted Highlighters

Cave Painting

“The dark, warm colors of this painting are reminiscent of the walls of a cave illuminated by torch light.”
— Jodi Arias

Orange Grenadine

“The bright, warm colors of Orange Grenadine remind me of a macro photo of a summer drink in a glass. I almost named this painting ‘Tequila Sunrise,’ but the white resembles heavy cream swirling in the nectar. I added a small portion of copper paint to the warm array of red, orange, and yellow, lending a slight shimmer when viewing the painting from an oblique angle.”
— Jodi Arias

Blue Planet

This painting resembles our beautiful earth as seen from a satellite photo taken over the Pacific Ocean. White clouds drift over the expanse and shades of blue depict varying depths of water. The swirl of paint near the center suggests the beginning of a tropical storm. The silty gray tones are created by a few drops of silver acrylic paint that I added to the mixture of cool blues, creating a subtle metallic sheen.”
— Jodi Arias

Red Elixir

“The unbounded warmth of red has not the irresponsible appeal of yellow, but rings inwardly with a determined and powerful intensity.”
— Wassily Kandinsky

“I came across a rare (well, rare in my environment) piece of canvas board and created this painting using the paint pouring method with black, white and red acrylic paint. It looks like a rich red liquid, thus the title, Red Elixir.

It is sealed with Liquitex matte varnish and its unique dimensions required a custom frame. I chose a sleek black frame that beautifully complements the piece. The backing has a small window to show my notes on the painting’s specs and my thumbprint authenticating it.”
— Jodi Arias

Sunday Morning

“The idea for Sunday Morning came to me when a friend sent me a photo of the front of his crowded refrigerator.

Among all the knickknacks, notes, and papers was a photo similar to what I’ve drawn. However, the background, lighting, flooring, and clothing differed. Even the bare feet were in a pair of 1980s knit socks. I changed it all and rendered the image with greater clarity and color saturation.

What drew me to this image was the intimacy, affection, and ambiguity occurring all at once. In my imagination, the couple are sharing a spontaneous, playful hug. Maybe they’re in a new house that isn’t yet furnished. I like the anonymity of who’s who.

A lot of people could look at this image and see themselves in it with someone they love.”
— Jodi Arias

Blue Abstraction

“Blue Abstraction is an acrylic painting on 3×3 feet of linen that I began in December 2019 and completed in January 2021.

Given the meandering pace I took to paint this, I am awed by the serendipitous timing. A mere two weeks after finishing this painting that took me over a year to create, all acrylic paints were confiscated from inmates in the state of Arizona. Had I taken just a little bit longer, I might never have completed it.

This was a commissioned piece, so the color scheme was discussed at length beforehand, but the design was one I chose based on sacred geometry and was inspired by the Flower of Life symbol. (Neat little hack: To achieve the circles in the center, I used as a stencil a plastic pie container from a fundraiser that sold whole pumpkin pies.)

The original now beautifies someone’s living room on a mantel in the Midwest (as in, Midwestern United States).”
— Jodi Arias

Angel Automaton

“The idea for Angel Automaton began while I was listening to an audiobook set in the 19th Century, which mentions a metallic automaton in the image of Archangel Michael created by a reclusive inventor ahead of his time who lived in an old mansion deep in the woods.

I thought, what if I drew a levitating female version, but more as a beautiful, futuristic android with metallic wings? I was also inspired by Steampunk art, which often merges the organic with the mechanical. With her luminous blue skin and power to fly, how much this angel is part robot and how much she is part supernatural being is open to interpretation.

This drawing was created on 9×12-inch Strathmore paper using a combination of Prismacolor pencils, Roseart pencils, and graphite.”
— Jodi Arias

Self-Portrait at Perryville

“I created Self-Portrait at Perryville for a college course in 2019. The assignment was to draw myself in my environment using some of the formal elements of art taught in the course, and describe the image in those terms. The following is adapted from the written portion of the assignment. The contrasting colors of the blue sky and orange clothing symbolize the contrast between limitlessness above and confinement below.

The buildings are simplified, but realistically convey their unimaginative boxy structure and neutral gray values. The lower half of the picture plane depicts a wide open space of dusty, sun-bleached dirt. Yet it’s the foreground that really conveys my environment: Despite the open space shown behind me, always there are chain-link fences keeping women in giant pens. Thus, we never forget we are confined. There is little shade, so when I venture into the heat, I wear a hat and sunglasses. The chain-link pattern is reflected in my dark lenses.

Here, I’ve got my earbuds in, listening to music or an audio book. The bright orange worn by all inmates makes us stand out against the drab buildings and dull brown dirt. Besides wearing the same clothes, we style our hair according to a detailed set of rules. So from far away, as this drawing depicts, we all look generally the same. Up close, however, the viewer can see we are unique in spite of our apparent sameness.”
— Jodi Arias

Cat’s Eye

“I created Cat’s Eye for my friend SJ, a fellow cat lover, to express my gratitude for all of the selfless time he has devoted and continues to devote to the outstanding website that he built on my behalf, JodiAriasIsInnocent.com.”
— Jodi Arias

Partington Cove

“Partington Cove is based on a photo I took during a morning hike in California when I was around 23 years old. The tall grass was in season and growing everywhere. I started this painting in oil on canvas after I moved to the desert when I was 24, but never finished it. My parents hung the framed, unfinished piece in their home anyway. Many years later at Perryville in Arizona, I acquired a large, pristine swath of cardboard. I had been wanting — no, craving — to paint on a larger surface for years. I began painting Partington Cove all over again, this time with acrylic paint, and this time completing it. This is my first landscape/seascape painting in acrylic.”
— Jodi Arias

Black-Ink Butterfly

“The question I am most often asked about Black-Ink Butterfly is how I achieved the symmetry. First, I designed the pattern on one half of the page using graphite, then I transferred the mirror image to the other side. When I completed the outline, I transferred that to a sheet of heavyweight Strathmore paper and added detail with a black ballpoint pen. In keeping with the symmetry of the entire design, my name appears as a reflection of itself in both bottom corners.”
— Jodi Arias

The Clearing

“The Clearing has an Impressionist, dreamlike quality. The use
of black and white paint highlights the way the light glows in the
canopy and reflects off the ground, while the illuminated clearing
beckons the viewer out from the shadows of the trees.”
— Jodi Arias

Starr-Nesha and D.J. at the Pool

“Using colored pencils and working from a very small, water-stained photogragh, I recreated this image of a woman named Starr-Nesha and her young son, DJ, when they were kicking it with family at the pool. I’ve met DJ in person and those enviable eyelashes are real. Here, they’re even more dramatic, matted with water after a swim. The way he hangs on his adoring mom with his bright goggles hanging on him, his goofy face and her happy smile, all capture the motion of this moment and the fun energy of that day.”
— Jodi Arias

Skull and Flowers

“When I created Skull and Flowers, it was a departure from my typical subject matter because it was a commissioned piece. I told the woman who requested it that I might not be the right artist for what she was seeking. She persisted, describing what she wanted and insisting I be the one to bring about her idea. I am so glad she pressed because Skull and Flowers is better than I had first envisioned. The neutral bone color of the skull and black background set off the floral spectrum of color. The delicate flowers add a dimension of softness and life over the hard bone and macabre, yet elegant, grinning skull.”
— Jodi Arias

Silent Prayer

Unity 2

Aquarian Star

The Key

Strawberry

Siesta

Crossed

Eye

Silver

Nostalgia

Cat Nap

Gift

Triquetra

Purple Lily

Colorful

Merkaba

Coyote

Sunset at Pfeiffer Beach

Pine Over The Pacific
(Photographic Print)

Pensive

Carpe Diem

Violinist

Hot Tea

Flora

Purple Dahlia

Puppy

Sails

Taurus (The Zodiac Series)

Gemini (The Zodiac Series)

Libra (The Zodiac Series)

Sagittarius (The Zodiac Series)

Capricorn (The Zodiac Series)

Pisces (The Zodiac Series)

Renew

Leila

Love

Grapes

King Tut’s Golden Mask

Picasso Calla Lilies Bouquet

Pinwheel

Sailing At Sunset

Teacher

Tears

Azure

Wistful

Baby Beethoven

Calla Lilies

Big Sur Sunset

“I painted this after buying my house in Palm Desert. The desert possesses its own raw beauty, but I missed Monterey County and Big Sur, places I had called home for years. So I painted this mildly abstract summer sunset on the south coast of Big Sur to memorialize a place I will always consider home.”

Bighorn Sheep

Blissful Ignorance

Lucky

Butterfly

Akin

Equine

Love and Light

Coy

Legacy

Girl Receiving Flowers

Perched

Onshore Wind

“My surfer buddies tell me that riding waves with onshore wind is less ideal than with offshore wind because the waves crumble rather than curl. I wouldn’t know from experience. I’ve only tried surfing once and the ocean kept spitting me back up on the beach. But the surfer in Onshore Wind is adept at maneuvering through less-than-ideal conditions, mastering the wave with skill even as it crumbles beneath his board.”

Red Feather

Star Tetrahedron

“When I painted this, I was very much into sacred geometry. A Star Tetrahedron is also referred to as a three-dimensional Star of David or a Merkaba. Although I’ve fallen away from the study of sacred geometry, this symbol will always have special meaning for me.”

Pyramids

Hourless