Ray 🌟 Hermes

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Painter & Printmaker based in Kansas Just your average alien girl making art ✨️ Streaming 🎨 at twitch.tv/rehermes 👩‍🎨 ✨️prints✨️stickers✨️originals✨️⤵️ rachelhermes.com/shop

Photo of several prints in an edition laid out on a table. The artwork depicts a fantasy landscape with a small figure crouched in the foreground. In the distance there are broken pieces of a large gray statue of a woman, before a teal-green sky full of pink clouds.
Photo of an intaglio print depicting a young white woman looking up at a total solar eclipse. Copper line etching printed in black ink with a layer of tan paper under the face and head, blue paper for the moon, and a light blue monotype background.
An array of trace monotype prints printed on translucent kozo paper in a gradient of pink to black ink. The prints feature figures interacting with stars and the Sun, and there is also one of a common wood sorel.
Photo of a fiery orange and pink sunset above a field of grass, with some houses and trees in the distance.
Photo of Rachel Hermes wearing a black turtle neck sweater and burnt orange velvet pants standing behind a table with some of her art displayed. She is smiling and holding up two peace signs.
An array of small copper plate etchings laid out on a table. Many are the repeated image of a girl kneeling with her head down beneath a radiating solar eclipse. Some have color added: pastel pinks, purples, and yellow. Other prints visible are of a group of mushrooms, and a portrait of a girl looking up at an eclipse.
Photo of a sketchbook with color pencils scattered around it. The page is filled by a color pencil sketch of a profile of a woman standing and holding glowing light in her hand. Her hair is raised above her in tendrils, and glowing sparkles surround her. Background is shades of blue and the figure is primarily tan and chartreuse.
Sketch, graphite transfer, and final print of a 2x3in copper etching. It shows a girl hunched over, kneeling beneath a powerful radiating solar eclipse.
Image of a 2x3in copper line etching depicting a girl with long hair kneeling in the grass with her head hung forward. Above her in the sky is a giant looming total solar eclipse. Lines radiate out from the eclipse, and flame-like shapes surround the figure. Printed in warm black ink on white paper.
Image of a 3-layer intaglio print depicting a nude white woman with long hair laying on her side, viewed from above, in a relaxed fetal position. Her hair obscures her face. The linework of the figure and hair is most prominent, printed in dark brown ink. There is a soft magenta background which also provides some shading to the figure, and underneath that is a layer of abstract hair-like lines in yellow which cut through the image, appearing in the lighter areas and nearly disappearing underneath the magenta. Underneath the image area is written in pencil, "V/E 2/2" (variable edition 2/2), "Queen of the Wilds", "Rachel Hermes" (signed).
Copper line etching printed in black ink on cream paper depicting a vertical mass of wisteria vines, dense and narrow at the bottom and spreading outward on top. There is a female figure curled up within the vines.
Pencil sketch of a woman standing with her arms wrapped around her torso. Her body is surrounded by and entwined with vines and branches. Pieces of trash litter the ground around her.
Etched copper plate depicting a girl looking up at a total eclipse with birds flying sporadically in the distance.
Photo of a copper line etching printed on white paper with values painted in with blue alcohol ink. The illustration depicts the profile of a girl with long braided hair, looking down at her hand. Her body and hair are entwined with leafy vines. The background is dark blue with 3 white sparkle shapes.
Portrait of a young woman gazing upwards at a total solar eclipse, with sparkles in her eyes. Background is dark teal, and the figure is light yellow with brown lines.
Photo of a 48x48" acrylic painting on canvas. It depicts an overhead view of a young woman laying down wearing a yellow/pink cardigan, a white crop top, and dark green shorts. The surroundings are mostly abstract but contain a few stuffed animals and foliage ground cover. The color pallette is vibrant with some areas of darkness.
Photo of a hand holding a 4 by 7 inch copper plate. Light hits the top half of the plate, revealing the image etched into the copper: a seated female figure with long flowing hair.
"Convincing Myself It's Real" Mixed media on paper, 22 x 30" Artwork depicting the upper back and head of a female figure with her head tilted toward her shoulder. Surrounding the figure are abstract explosions of color and texture, primarily teal, yellow, purple, and black. It is made with traditional art materials as well as stickers and glitter.
Selfie holding a paint brush in front of a large oil painting. I am wearing black rimmed glasses, a mauve knitted hat, black fleece jacket, and a white apron. I'm smiling and there is warm evening sunlight.
Photo of a 48 x 72" canvas on an easel depicting a bed of lotuses wherein a female figure wearing a plain white dress lays with one arm draped across her obscured face. Her body is angled with her upper body away from the viewer, and her dress is bunched up at the abdomen, below which there are only bones.
Photo of a gray and white short-haired cat curled up and looking very cute.
Photo of a copper plate coated with black hard ground. A graphite transferred image is on the hard ground: the preliminary drawing for "Held by a Thread." A hand is poised over the plate holding a needle point etching tool.
Small rough sketch, graphite on paper, depicting some twisted vines growing upwards with a figure sitting in the top.
Crop of an oil painting featuring a woman's right hand laid over her chest with field bindweed vines intertwined.
Portion of an oil painting in progress containing a white lotus bud
Image of a portion of an oil painting containing and eye with some vines surrounding it.