Icer Fine Art

Ivy Caroline Ebersole-Raptor is the founder of ICER Fine Art. This business was created to help promote and grow Ivy's freelance art business. Ivy specializes in vivid, colorful acrylic and oil pastel paintings. She also specializes in photo realistic pencil drawings and digital artwork. Artist Statement: Art is what keeps people alive when otherwise they would be lost to us. Faces have always fascinated me. It is amazing how one tiny detail can change a face entirely. If those details are off even a little it's not the same face anymore. When I draw portraits I pay special attention to all of those small details. My goal is to capture a tiny piece of the person's soul, so when you look at the portrait you truly see that person. Art is very powerful. It can change your mind with just a picture. It can inspire and it can translate an idea when words are not enough. Art has the power to create and destroy. It is how we make dreams a reality, as art is how we find magic and travel to far off worlds. Art gives me a voice in an ever increasingly noisy world. Painting is meditative and the pictures I create open doorways into many other worlds. For me art is its own language and the act of creating art is like casting a spell. My art can express far more to the world than I could every say in words.