Paintings

Archival-quality giclée prints and plaque-mounted prints are available for each painting below.

The paintings loosely appear in reverse chronological order of date completed.

Revival - 14" x 18"

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $250

Coexisting in Harmony

Evolution - 14" x 18"

Original: $2000

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $250

Channeling the Universe through Art

Evolution is a collaboration between C Severson Art and assemblage artist Ina Solsbery.

See its progression in the left thumbnail below and the finished piece in the right:

Ghost Town - 14" x 11"

Original: $700

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $220

"There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation." - Logan Pearsall Smith

This Rocky Mountain hamlet is left faded by the sun and wind but is none the worse for it.

Below is a rougher 5” x 7” version of the Ghost Town river bank.

Castle Spirits - 16" x 12"

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230

Old spirits rest in the landscape, a young one enters the castle.

The thumbnail below is a ten-second timelapse of the painting's progression.

The Witch's Repose - 11" x 14"

Original: $700

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230

A framed print of The Witch's Repose:

The Witch's Repose is a scene from the anti-story behind the next painting.

Mushroom Cottage - 26" x 11" *

Original: $890

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $300

Just your average single-family home with an anti-story behind it

       This and the last painting break the rule of centering: Don’t put the focal point at the center of the composition. And, in Mushroom Cottage, all the elements of the painting are pushed into the foreground, flattening the scene. Here, you’ll find many paintings in this style, called Naïve Art. Throughout its history, naïve art has been both enjoyed for its whimsicality and derided as childish or academically flawed. Whatever your opinion, just know that we take it very seriously and will strive to disregard it at every opportunity.

Woodland Castle - 12" x 16"

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230

    Loosely based on Thomas Kinkade’s Guardian Castle but with a crumbling foundation, this castle is dedicated to those who attempt to make a grand home in a troubled land. A girl prays in the near tower, but Woodland Castle is part of a broken kingdom where many have long since disappeared into a conspiratorial cult. And for the rest, neither the spoiled rivers nor the collapsing forests are reason enough to change their ways. Yet even amid intensifying storms, the castle remains upright until such a time when encroaching winds prove too ruinous for this fool’s paradise.

    And below, an earlier version of Woodland Castle appears in its larger context: painted on a wood door within the kindred Severson Bungalow on Vine Street in Denver, Colorado U.S.A.

Entourage - 20" x 16" *

Prints: $50 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230

The mice know that whenever the cat gazes out from the doorstep of the Woodland Castle foyer, it will eventually become entranced and they can proceed with their antics at low risk of devourment. Today, they outfit the cat with a monocle, top hat, and bow tie and, as passersby witness the spectacle, a legend is born: one of a dapper, steely-eyed cat with an entourage.

And below is a framed print of Entourage underneath a table scavenged by M and refinished by C.

Vine Street - 20" x 16"

Prints: $50 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230

An absurdist take on this painting:

Also check out the Vine Street Multiverse

Big Bird in an Average World - 10" x 10" *

Original: $450

Prints: $30 / Plaque-mounted prints: $210

Real meets abstract

...staged with clippings from the backyard sage bush

Surfing Bird - 8" x 10"

Original: $550

Prints: $30/ Plaque-mounted prints: $200

For this bird, danger is the sport.

Lakeside Cabin - 14" x 11" *

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $220

Painted on an old cutting board, this is a version of Old House Reflection by Correa Art.

Also finding its way into this painting was a dog named Olive:

Olive's Tree - 11" x 21" *

Prints $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $300

Or the kite can be edited to show your dog's name.

Cat in the Moonlight - 10" x 8"

Prints: $30 / Plaque-mounted prints: $200

A version of the popular depiction

...with a window into earlier that day:

Cat in the Window - 22" x 17" *

Prints: $50 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230

Hm, did they forget again?

This painting grew out of a spontaneous bright idea by stray cat wrangler, Michele Severson.

Because out there is...

Desolation - 24" x 22" *

Prints: $60 / Plaque-mounted prints: $220

Black and then crackle medium are the cabinet undercoats.

Backstory

Disenchanted Forest - 14" x 11" *

Original: $600

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $220

Completed October 2023, this one can come with a Halloween tale.

The thumbnail below shows how this painting came together layer by layer.

Also, a special thanks to digital artist Twisted Imagination for draping Disenchanted Forest in scarlet red curtains with skeletal stage hands...and adding a creepy bunny and background tree:

Ladybug Tree - 11" x 22" *

Original: $700

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $300

Featuring one-stroke painted plants

and an easy tree of exposed wood panel with glazed-in shadows

Giardino Vine Street - 18" x 24"

Prints: $60 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230

An open garden window into the sky

Eagle Cloud - 30" x 18" *

Original: $800

Prints: $60 / Plaque-mounted prints: $270

The original framed painting of this storied scene is part of a larger display as shown in the thumbnail below.

And for a more vibrant flower patch than in the thumbnail above...

Green Flowers - 6" x 6" *

Original: $270

Prints: $20 / Plaque-mounted prints: $200

Consider this small one as part of a wall display in combination with other

Green Flowers prints with custom effects:

Death Valley Nomad - 20" x 16"

Prints: $50 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230

Deathly-Pale Snake Lord Seeks Honest Wife

This online dating profile portrait was commissioned by a river valley nomad I encountered on a trek across the Mojave Desert. Painted with a more muted color palette, it was an exercise in atmospheric perspective: The hazy-bordered background mountains share the light color of the sunset and far sky, while the snake lord, his feathered captain, and the rest of the foreground has darker contrasting colors and distinctly-painted edges.

The thumbnail below is a plaque-mounted print ornamented with antique store knick-knacks and photographed in lighting that created a sunset glow. This and the original were both photographed with distressed wood strips on the top and bottom to bring each to a standard size. The plaque mount is 24" x 18", and prints of it can also be ordered.

Birdman - 16" x 16"

Original: $400

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $210

To whom it may concern,

As soon as the barmaid chained the amulet around McMinn’s neck, nose flesh calcified into a beak, hair flared like feathers. Of the old cracked wood framing Siever Saloon and the old western finery framed by McMinn’s body, only his hat and the amulet passed into this impossible landscape without change. With his masquerade rendered preposterous by the two, McMinn, now Birdman, was left conspicuous. The saloon’s intrigue, the barmaid’s flattery, the hat conferred on McMinn as patrons cheered on…was it all a ruse with him the laughingstock? Was the whiskey just whiskey?

Kam Aaron Siever
Sun Valley
June 19, 2020

Earth Overlord - 14" x 11"

Original: $220

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230

Some ideas for this one

Wagon Wheel Cabin - 14" x 11"

Original: $320

Prints: $40 / Plaque-mounted prints: $230

There was already enough character and form in this wood that it only needed accentuating with a thinly painted hillside of rocks and grass with a cabin on top. Something like that.

The thumbnails below show the front and back sides of this two-inch-thick wood block.

Sailing - 6" x 6"

Original: $190

Prints: $20 / Plaque-mounted prints: $200

Birdland - 12" x 16"

Prints: $40/ Plaque-mounted prints: $230

What an Indignity

Bedroom Mural - 24" x 18" or Larger

Prints: $60/ Plaque-mounted prints: $230

Both Birdland and Entourage are from this mural in our home.

Other up-close images from this mural...