RUCKEL ART

This painting is a recreation of Dali's "A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cutical of a Grand Piano." I painter it after seeing the piece at the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft Worth Texas. It was kind of a change of pace for myself and i saw it as a bit of a challenge to find what i could add to a master's work.

I <3 Lips

i painted this a while back, but it seemed like a good valentines day painting to throw on the tumblr today.

this i a painting dear to my heart... and stomach.

Big Mama's Chicken and Waffles. no words can describe how heart broken i was when she closed her drive through windows. i thought it was forever. then fate shown its splendor upon us all and a a "grand re-opening" sign appeared.  i had to paint it because it filled me with such joy!

this is a "story of success", also, known as the "impression of a republican"

sorry it's such a horrible picture... i need a better camera

this is a color comp test for a larger project. -R. Stephen Ruckel

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this is a series i did based on different styles of the induction of modern art. themed by nuclear weapons.

 Love Canal was a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York. Hooker Chemical sold the site to the Niagara Falls School Board in 1953 for $1. In the mid-1970s Love Canal became the subject of attention after it was revealed that the site had formerly been used to bury 21,000 tons of toxic waste. The mostly middle-class families did not have the resources to protect themselves, and many did not see any alternative other than abandoning their homes at a loss.

I did this painting to remind people of the explosive power the humankind carries with them. On April 16, 1947, a fire on board the SS Grandcamp, its cargo of approximately 2,100  metric tonsof fertilizer (ammonium nitrate) detonated while docked in Texas City.The initial blast and subsequent chain-reaction of further fires and explosions in other ships and nearby oil-storage facilities, killing at least 581 people, including 27 members of the Texas City fire department.

CLOSE UP OF WENDY

this was based on a sketch i did at work on a post-it note. and then i found the half door thingy in the trash. it's inspired by 2 songs. Kids and Chemicals: out the window and Gordan Lightfoot's: wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

this ones called "Wendy" original art by me, R. Stephen Ruckel

this ones was a commissioned piece. its 4x10 ft. its called Order & Chaos. original art by me, R Stephen Ruckel