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RECENT WORK: Quesperanza

In Art, Assemblage by Paul Soupiset

Paul Soupiset Quesperanza, 2021-2022 Birdhouse with 24k gold leaf appliqué, hand-formed nest; bottle containing multicolored bird leg bands; accompanying 19” x 12.5” pencil drawing on paper.   His recent work …

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RECENT WORK: PASSOVER::OVERPASS

In Art, Paintings by Paul Soupiset

Recent work—started in 2019, finished April, 2020. Update: SOLD Clockwise from top left: Passover I, 2019-2020. 9″x3″x0.875″ Watercolor, Graphite, and Ink Passover II, 2019-2020. 9″x3″x0.875″ Watercolor, Graphite, and Ink Passover …

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LABYRINTHS

In Art, Paintings by Paul Soupiset

Clockwise from top left: 1. God is Flame, 2019. 12″x12″x0.75″ acrylic + ink on watercolor paper, 60. (120 framed) 2. Love Unto Love, 2019. 12″x12″x0.75″ acrylic + ink on watercolor …

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Video: Cairn, 2012

In Art by Paul Soupiset

Dry-stacked cairn, Paul Soupiset October 13, 2012, 25 minutes. “…The cairn only fell over once while I was stacking this iteration, but the wind picked up Friday about 5pm, and …

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Looking back: bewildermefly

In Art, Paintings by Paul Soupiset

This painting is about eight years old. It has appeared in GENERATE Magazine and in packaging design for an Eric Peters album, The Birds of Relocation.  bewildermefly, Paul Soupiset, ca. …

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Articles 01

In Art, Paintings by Paul Soupiset

Articles 01, 2017. 12″x12″x2″ encaustic, acrylic and Uni Posca white ink-paint on birch panel. For sale. 100.

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New Yeller.

In Art, Paintings by Paul Soupiset

New Yeller, Summer, 2017. 30″ x 40″. Acrylic and pencil on gallery-wrap canvas. For sale. 150. Sold. (This painting, New Yeller, is an homage to an earlier painting I did …

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Magnificat

In Uncategorized by Paul Soupiset

Magnificat, 2011. 251⁄4” x581⁄2” x 21⁄2” acrylic and found objects in plaster on wood panel. Custom-welded metal frame. For sale. 900. I created this Magnificat in 2011 at the request …

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Standoffish: Aluminum Anagrams

In Art, Photography by Paul Soupiset

This casual series comprises a series of digital photographs of 4-inch black, anodized aluminum letters with threaded standoffs, set against caliche. All words are anagrams of the word “LODESTAR.” Photographed …

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Carmina Gadelica Labyrinth

In Art, Pen & Ink by Paul Soupiset

A labyrinthine prayer from Carmina Gadelica “…Carmina Gadelica is a compendium of prayers, hymns, charms, incantations, blessings, literary-folkloric poems and songs, proverbs, lexical items, historical anecdotes, natural history observations, and …

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Salt

In Art, Video by Paul Soupiset

Three years ago, I invited a group of retreat participants to join me in a collaborative art-making project. Complicating matters — this was done with no verbal instruction: we were …

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Terminal Minotaur

In Art, News, Video by Paul Soupiset

The SANDY WOOD & OTHER VOICES channel just went live on YouTube a few moments ago. A collaborative YouTube channel where Sandy brings together poets, painters, filmmakers, voice talent, photographers, …

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Ink

In Art, Pen & Ink by Paul Soupiset

[x_video_embed no_container=”true”] [/x_video_embed]   I’m working on a new tattoo design (not shown here), but it led me to go find these old ones and post them. The weird thing …

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Revisiting: The Sketchbook Project

In Art, Pen & Ink, Video by Paul Soupiset

[x_video_embed no_container=”true”] [/x_video_embed] My Advent 2012 sketchbook, “Sometimes My Life Winds Like Bézier Curves,” is part of the library at The Sketchbook Project in Brooklyn, New York. You can view …

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Revisiting: Halo I & II

In Art, News, Pen & Ink by Paul Soupiset

It’s strange to see a piece of art you’ve made years ago, having not seen it in person in the intervening years. Yesterday I was reacquainted with two such pieces. …

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Drawing Close: Mini-Documentary by Kyle Isenhower

In News by Paul Soupiset

[x_video_embed no_container=”true”] Drawing Close // Documentary on Illustrator Paul Soupiset from Isenhower Productions on Vimeo. [/x_video_embed] Kyle Isenhower and I have been working together, making short films together for maybe …

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Recent Dimensional Paintings

In News by Paul Soupiset

In addition to my Chartres Labyrinth series of paintings, which I’ll post soon, I’ve also been working on another series of paintings, this time with more dimension, and using found …

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Coming Soon: Drawing Close

In News by Paul Soupiset

Drawing Close, Kyle Isenhower’s mini documentary on the illustration of Paul Soupiset, will debut here — and at Isenhower Productions’ website, sometime in the next few days. We talked to …

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Revisiting: An Illustrated Life

In News by Paul Soupiset

Back in the spring of 2008, during a trip to New York City, I visited with Danny Gregory at his house. Danny edited (and invited me to participate in) An …

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Revisiting: Sketchnote Handbook

In News by Paul Soupiset

This sketchnote of mine was included as a small part of the Mike Rohde book The Sketchnote Handbook, which was released November 30, 2012 to a worldwide audience. The book …

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Book Design: Vinedresser’s Notebook

In News by Paul Soupiset

In the fall of 2013 had the distinct privilege of illustrating and designing The Vinedresser’s Notebook, by Judith Sutera, a Benedictine Sister of Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas. It …

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He Shall Be The One Of Peace

In News, Video by Paul Soupiset

Here, the back of a discarded and broken guitar body is reclaimed as the prepared surface for the image of Jesus Christ. The artist’s work both honors and recontextualizes the …

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Process Video: Buddy Greene Album Cover

In News by Paul Soupiset

  When I painted the linework illustration for the cover of Buddy Greene’s Harmonica Anthology, I filmed these two timelapse animations with my iPhone. Watercolor over black pigment liner. [x_video_embed …

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Ave Virginia

In News by Paul Soupiset

Soupiset, Paul. Ave Virginia. [2015]. Watercolor, metallic leaf, dimes, on 24″x24″ gessoboard. Collection of Annette & Kent Kingery, San Antonio.  

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Painted Tree | Psalm

In News by Paul Soupiset

One of the many art experiments from Laity Lodge. I painted a dead branch white, and then invited people to come over the course of the week and paint and …