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The ChromeSun Bio of Herb Roe
ChromeSun Productions is dedicated to the making and selling the work of Herb Roe. Roe has been a professional artist for over 17 years, and has been making and selling commissioned pieces for far longer. Follow the commissions link for a price scale related to each kind of work. The store link has work for sale, please feel free to browse around and find something you like.
When I was 12 years old I discovered what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. All thru high school I worked on building a portfolio that would help me get into an art school. After high school, I attended the Columbus College of Art and Design for a year. When I returned home to Portsmouth, Ohio for the summer, I met Robert Dafford. I began working for him as a summer job on the then newly commissioned Portsmouth Floodwall Mural Project. That fall, Mr. Dafford asked if I'd be interested in working for him for a year instead of immediately returning to school at C.C.A.D. I decided to take a year off, and it turned into many more, and what began as a summer job turned into a 15 year career. Thru all of the intervening years I continued to work on my own paintings and drawings, incorporating all he and the other artists at Dafford Murals had to teach me. Over the years my personal work has ranged over a variety of subjects and mediums.  My more recent work has focused on my adopted home of South Louisiana, including a series of oil paintings and graphite drawings of the Courir de Mardi Gras.  I discovered the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri and have been adding different scenes to illustrate it for over 15 years. Since 2000 I've started incorporating digital manipulation and other multimedia techniques
  into my work, doing a majority of my preliminary work in Photoshop and related programs. I've  spent more than a few years trying to teach myself renaissance style oil painting techniques. I think I learned how to paint a decent landscape. I began a long term project writing and illustrating a graphic novel, The Black Sun. I've self-published the first 3 chapters, and am planning on finishing the last 3 chapters and trying to have it published the old fashioned way. Some of my work is historical illustration, my second love has always been history and archaeology. I'm especially interested in illustrating American Indians, specifically the Mississippian Era of prehistory. Many of my pieces reflect my love of mythology, allegory, and spirituality. But no matter what techniques, mediums, or subject matter I explore in a piece, I always try to show my understanding of truth and light {metaphorical as well as literal} in my art. I firmly believe there is beauty and truth in all aspects of existence, and it is the purpose of artists, whether they're painters, poets, etc., to communicate and translate this to the rest of humanity. Through our art can be seen our understanding of the world and existence, where we are and where we have been. And more importantly, where we can go. I hope you appreciate my art for what it is, my little slice of existence, my keyhole on the world. There are many galleries of my different kinds of work here. Paintings, Drawings, Digital Illustrations, digital animations, The Black Sun, and of course Murals. For those who've seen my work before, I hope you find something new. And for those who are seeing it for the first time, I hope you like it and come back. I'll be changing and adding things from time to time as my schedule allows.

 

 

Exhibits

  • In 2002 I exhibited  at the Cite des Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana during the Festival International de Louisiane.

  • In 2008 I was included in the Acadiana Center for the Arts "Southern Open", an annual juried show open to residents of 5 Gulf Coast States. That year the juror for the show was Peter Frank.

  • In September 2009 I had a Solo Exhibit at the A. I. R. Studio in Paducah, Kentucky.

  • Multiple shows at the "Warehouse on Garfield St. Artist Studios", a review of one of the shows can be read here   "Off the Beaten Path at the Warehouse on Garfield" by Reggie Rodrigue, November 28, 2011.

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