Artwork of Reagan Schmissrauter

The Artwork of
Reagan Schmissrauter (17 yr. old)

For possible purchase, commission, or even just a question, please contact me by either:

Phone:
(423) 886-1368

-or-

Email:
Rschmissrauter@baylor.chattanooga.net

                      About Reagan Schmissrauter

             Reagan is an ambitious sixteen year old student at the Baylor School of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He would like to pursue art as a profession.
"Sharing with others what visually touches me is important," he says.
Reagan wants to discover the world through art.
"It will take me places I would have never dreamed of being and will introduce me to people I would have never otherwise met," he says.
Traveling is important to Reagan as an artist, even if it is an hour long walk or in another country, it's what inspires him. Reagan will continue to expirement with different subject matter, media, techniques, ideas and styles. His goal this year is to raise enough money to spend a month during the summer of 2005 in Rothenburg, Germany, painting... Maybe you can help by buying one of his paintings.

                       Reagan's Current Art mentors/instructors:
Betsy Carmichael, Laura Yann, Daud Ahkriev, Melissa Hefferlin

        --- I would be lost if it weren't for these people ---

                      Sources of Inspiration:
Robert Henri
Greg Kreutz
John Singer Sargent
Daniel Greene
Joy Thomas
Mary Cassatt
The Old Masters

* I also do commissions:
-Family Portraits
-Portraits
-murals
-house portraits
-landscapes
-pet portraits
-logos
-t-shirt designs
~Please email me for Pricing Information~

Websites of Some Really Awesome Artists:

* http://daudakhriev.com
* www.melissahefferlin.com
* http://www.portraitartist.com/thomas/thomas.htm
* www.richardschmid.com

Drawing Studies:

Trip to Italy and Germany:

Surrealism/Expressionism:

Photos from Italy and Germany:

Germany:

"Mrs. Yann and Jimin"

"The World's Most Beautiful Tree"

"The Master Daud (left) and Janis at work"

"A great teacher and artist... Laura Yann"

"Jimin on the Train, her presence in Chattanooga will be dearly missed"

"Ruffla and The Bets"
(Beth Ruffner and Betsy Carmichael)
great teachers

"Reagan and Sigfried"

" Roman Columns at Como"

"My Beloved Germans"
Danny Bernd Sigrid Sebastian Reagan

"Fachwerk at Rothenburg"

"Der Innenstadt, Rothenburg"

"One of the 17 Cathedrals in Wurzburg"

"Me and Bernd" (my friend and tour guide)

"Self Portrait"
(pencil on board)
unavailable

"head Study"
(Charcoal)
(live model)

"Nude Study"
(Pencil)
(live model)
(done in Daud Akhriev's class)

All I have to say about Germany is... "Sehr Schoen!"

"teapot"
Pastel
($50)

"Italy"
Crayon Study
unavailable

"Roman Head Study"
pencil

"Apples"
Pastel
($50)

"Anghiari, Italy" (oil on canvas) 11x14 in ($250)

"Tuscan Feild of Heaven" (oil on canvas) 11x14 in
($250)

"Italian Tree" (oil on archival board)
11x14 in ($250)

"The Italian Farm Tree"
(oil on archival board)
8x10 in ($300)

"Merendello, Where We Stayed"
(oil on canvas)
8x10 in ($200)

"Tuscan Olive Trees and Valley"
(oil on textured paper)
8x14 in ($100)

"Pianetolle, Italy"
(oil on canvas)
11x14 in ($250)

"Pond at Siegfrid and Renate's Farm"
(oil on canvas)
11x14 ($250)

"Rose Study"
(oil on archival board)
8x10 in
($100)

"Farout House"
(watercolor)
5x7 in
$30

"Mountain Study"
(watercolor)
5x7 in
$30

"Tuscan Valley"
(oil on canvas)
8x10 in
($100)

"Vlada Study"
(oil on archival board )
8x10 in
($60)

"Tuscan Olive Trees and Red Poppy"
(oil on canvas) -- 8x10 in ($100)

"Italian Wine cellar"
(oil on canvas) 11x14 in ($300)

"Me in an Italian cellar"
Pianetolle, Italy

"Canvas of My Life"
(oil on canvas)
roughly 40x40 in

$350

"Reagan As a Beast of Burden, Nightmare"

(oil on masonite)

48x48 in

($350)

"The Melting Existance of Life"

(oil on masonite)

48x48 in
($350)

"Oh Crap!!! (self portrait)"
(oil on masonite)
14x18 in
($250)

"Self-Portrait as a Roman"
(oil on masonite)
14x18 in
($250)

"Portrait of My Little Brother, Matthew"
(oil on masonite)
11x14 in
($150)

"Self Portrait in Times of Revelation"
(oil on canvas)
detail

"Nude Study"
(oil on canvas from live model)
detail
($200)
(done in Daud Akhriev's class)

"Natalya"
(live study in oil)
10x18 in
($200)
(done in Daud Akhriev's class also)

"Cake Study"
(oil on canvas)
11x22 in
($100)

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Summary of Italy and Germany:

I will never forget this amazing experiance. I learned so much about life and art in Italy and Germany and loved the culture and every second that I breathed there. I will never forget the friendships and the people that I met in both Italy and Germany. Truly an inspirational and amazing experiance and I will always be thankful to those that helped me make it there. I will miss the culture and the people very much.

Welcome to Redhotbrush.tripod.com --- most all works are done from life

Statement about "The Canvas of My Life"

      I am not finished with this painting. But the main idea in this painting lyes in the tree limbs and the cloth I am holding. What does this mean?
      The tree limbs stabbing into me represents the cycle of life. The earth takes us back as we die. We belong to the earth as we are ultimately bound to it.
      The cloth that im holding represents a canvas. It is the only thing that I am holding in this painting. This is saying that the canvas (art) is all that I have. Meaning it is the only thing that will stick with me after I die... Friends and family don't count because they die too.... This is saying a peice of my spirit stays in my artwork long after I die. Stating that even if there is no eternal life, my spirit is perpetual through art.
      So this painting is simply alluding to art, and how my spirit will live long after I die. And you can figure the rest out for yourself...