Fotios Zemenides Art

  Nine years have past since my last visit to Mackinac Island and the living natural art installation persists. This visit included my wi...

At the Phoenix Museum of Art I encountered what is my favorite work of art. Nothing before has ever resonated with me like this piece. ...

This etching with aquatint à la poupée plate is part of the Pipelines and Borderlines portfolio exchange project in which I had previou...

The role of the educator is to prepare individuals for the future by giving them the greatest tool they could possibly have: an unconstr...

These four images act as companion pieces to the etching series "The Four" which include Setting the Precedent, The Condition...

  This etching makes up the writer aspect from the series: The Arts. The desire for composing the "Great American Novel" is som...

The greatest stain left on history during the 20th century is the undeniably horrific use of genocide as a political tool and mili...

This piece is titled First Act/Final Act and it makes up the Actor aspect of a new series focusing on the Arts and Humanities. The viewin...

These two prints are part of the Heroes/Villains series and they constitute the Soldier and the Banker aspects. An individual indoctrina...

  This tetraptych etching w/aquatint depicts a stark and pessimistic future, in which the Realpolitik that has guided our foreign policy...

This etching is dedicated to the now abandoned exploration of space. Our species has always moved beyond our borders; that momentum has no...

This etching was conceived as part of a continuing series project with my fellow print-makers called Dialogues . My piece is titled: The P...

These five graphite line drawings when complete will be part of a portfolio series I am creating depicting the artist studi...

Sometimes it is just fun to go off on tangents during live model sessions and experiment with different styles, techniques or media....

As with the earlier piece of Lindsey as a bride, the paper used makes all the difference when working with colored pencil. In this case Me...

This etching is titled "The Paragon of hope" and is dedicated to those individuals who spend their lives in the service of heal...

This etching is titled "Feeding the thankless masses" and is about those who have worked in agricultural production for the tens...

I chose to execute this image of Lindsey with graphite pencil as opposed to charcoal so that I would have more precise control on depicti...

The image above was done with colored pencil on a brown sheet of paper. The paper one uses helps balance out the colors used, in this cas...

This image is part of a portfolio exchange project that questions the ramification of the world's increasing demand on oil. The t...

There is a significant difference in working with a costumed pose as opposed to a nude. Firstly and strangely enough, it is more diffic...

This etching is titled: "Seeking the Behemoth's favor," and it comprises the Bureaucrat aspect in the Villains category. In ...

This charcoal study of Janet reclining legs up is another great exercise in understanding the anatomy because it is much more difficult to...

These prints are a continuation of the visual narrative project started with the piece "He stole through the night. . ." That ima...

When drawing in colored pencil there are a few things you need to take into consideration with the materials you use. Less expensive pencils...

Using charcoal allows the artist to get a drawing to a refined state in a relatively short period of time. To be sure it can become a messy ...

One commonly overlooked aspect of creating any image is the composition. Layout of the figure or object, angle, source of lighting and how ...

With this woodblock print I am now officially finished with the first phase of my series: The Disasters. This, of course, is the wind aspect...

This etching with aquatint print is titled: "He stole through the night" and it constitutes the Thief aspect from the series Heroe...

I was tasked to create a kite for an exhibition celebrating the artist made craft. I chose to make a dual image object honoring our space p...

This image is an etching from War aspect of the print series "The Four." It is titled so because a child born into a world of viol...

This woodblock print constitutes the disease aspect from the print series The Four. Throughout human history, individuals with what we now k...

The standing pose is one of the most difficult for a model to execute as it is incredibly taxing on the body. Only a stable pose such as thi...