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Black Rock Portrait Project Paintings (More to Come)

"La Quema Muertos" figurative nude oil painting of female model by Marie Vlasic COPYRIGHT PROTECTED

"La Quema Muertos" (the Burning Dead).  24 x 36" Oil painting on Board, (2014) features model Anthea D. just as she appeared on Burn Day at the Burning Man event in 2012. She created her own headdress and makeup. I couldn't resist painting her.


(Available at vlasicstudio.bigcartel.com)

"Warrior" figurative oil painting of male model in makeup by artist Marie Vlasic COPYRIGHT PROTECTED

"Warrior"  24" x 24" oil painting on board, 2015. Featuring model Scott S. with viking makeup. He took this picture of himself and when I saw it I knew I had to create a painting from it (with his permission). Scott is a photographer and Black Rock Ranger for the Burning Man event and a friend of the artist.


Original Sold, Limited Edition (25) Signed
Fine Art Prints available vlasicstudio.bigcartel

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"Larry" oil painting portrait of male model in goggles at Burning Man, artist Marie Vlasic COPYRIGHT


"Larry", 8 x 10" oil painting on board 2022. Posthumous portrait of a beloved Burner from Salt Lake City, Utah. 


Limited Edition Signed Fine Art Prints available at vlasicstudio.bigcartel.com (a portion of the proceeds go to the Burning Man Project).

Black Rock Portrait Project Study Paintings Photo Gallery

Figurative oil painting study of female model at Burning Man artist Marie Vlasic COPYRIGHT PROTECTED

Small (from 4x4" to 8x10") oil painting on board study paintings for my Black Rock Portrait Project. All the original paintings are sold.


A book featuring these oil paintings is available at www.vlasicstudio.bigcartel.com

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the Black Rock Portrait Project

What is it?

The Black Rock Portrait Project is a series of oil paintings of Burners (based on reference images taken mostly by me) at the Burning Man event. This is an ongoing project which began in 2011. A small book of the study paintings has been published, available at vlasicstudio.bigcartel.com )

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the Portrait Project Story

"Welcome Home: the Black Rock Portrait Project", now in it's 14th Year.  “Welcome Home.” These are the first words you here when you arrive at the gates of Burning Man. It is a Home like no other, transporting it’s eager participants into a world incomprehensible to outsiders. Participants are released from the bonds of their daily lives to create and play and thrive. They are free to express themselves in all manner of ways creative, bizarre and joyful. The experience of Burning Man can be life-changing for many people, and is at the very least, profound and extraordinary for most. It is almost unimaginable what is created out there in a temporary city of art and outrageous experience, literally in the middle of nowhere, in the dust, wind and heat. However what truly creates this event is the people. Burning Man is at its core an event created by it's participants, incredible people willing to brave the harshest of environments to bring their particular form of creation and expression to the community, to truly let their hair down, to recreate themselves and share an experience that can be had no where else on the planet. It is these people that participate in this glorious act of communal creation that inspired me to create "Welcome Home: the Black Rock Portrait Project." 

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