{"id":16717,"date":"2018-08-11T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T12:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/?p=16717"},"modified":"2018-08-11T05:56:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T12:56:25","slug":"ronald-shelley-artist-and-sculptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/ronald-shelley-artist-and-sculptor\/","title":{"rendered":"RONALD SHELLEY ARTIST AND SCULPTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/a>

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Ronald Shelley likes to frequent local thrift stores for art supplies. He\u2019s not looking for canvases or old frames; instead he is searching for toy cars and trucks with oversized tires, plastic spoons, and bits of wire and cloth to incorporate into his sculptures. His latest efforts include \u201cWheelfly\u201d insects and racing cars from the early 20th century.<\/p>\n

\"\"Shelley has decades-long experience as an illustrator, landscape painter and concept artist for architects. His output as an artist has been seen by tens of thousands of people. From book covers and magazine illustrations to fine art works located in museums and private collections, his art has made an impact.<\/p>\n

His most recent show was at the Dade Heritage Trust building in the Financial District. In Florida Lost & Found, Shelley displayed paintings of Florida landscapes and long-gone structures, such as packing houses, railroad depots and cattle chutes.<\/p>\n

WHEELFLY SERIES<\/b>
\nThe artist\u2019s latest challenge to himself is to use repurposed parts from familiar, common objects for his sculpture in order to \u201cmake something different.\u201d He has done so successfully. His Wheelfly insects have old windshield wiper arms for legs, toy car wheels for \u201cfeet,\u201d and the bowls of black plastic spoons for eyes. He fashions the insect body from pulp packing material covered in strips of tack board (a malleable cardboard used by architectural model makers). The wings are made from polystyrene that modelmakers use to simulate window panes. The insect body and wings are then painted.<\/p>\n\n\t\t