Barbara Rachko

"Revolutionizing Pastel as Fine Art!" www.barbararachko.ART www.barbararachkoscoloreddust.com

"Revolutionizing Pastel as Fine Art!" Acolytes Soft Pastel on Sandpaper Image 38 x 58 (97 x 147 cm)... Framed 50 x 70 (127 x 178cm) www.barbararachko.ART

"Revolutionizing Pastel as Fine Art!" "Shamanic" Soft Pastel on Sandpaper Image 26" x 20" (66 x 51 cm) ... Framed 35" x 28.5" (89 x 72 cm) www.barbararachko.ART

"Poseur" Soft Pastel on Sandpaper 58 x 38 (147 x 97 cm) Image 70 x 50 (178 x 127 cm) Framed... From the acclaimed "Bolivianos" series "Revolutionizing Pastel as Fine Art!: www.barbararachko.ART

#tbthursday "The chromogenic prints in the Gods and Monsters series are experiments in which I relinquish control. Basic picture-taking techniques, like focusing and composing an image in the rangefinder, are abandoned. I use film and eschew digital manipulations in both shooting and printing the images. I photograph through colored plastic gels to add shapes and colors, to abstract and otherwise render details unrecognizable, and to create dreamlike scenarios. Each image is... an unrepeatable surprise. Always I am letting go, breaking habits learned as a painter and a photographer, exploring, and seeing what will happen. In this series I am painting with a camera, creating variations that free my camera from being a mechanical recording device of what lies before it" https://www.barbararachko.art/en/the-photographs