Blog - Dan Cohen Creative Labs

Energized by the beauty of Lebanon, I designed this mural to reflect Its rich history. The ancient Phoenician alphabet was first discovered in the region of Byblos, which is an important precursor to many alphabets we use today. I aim to inspire the passerby to…

Byblos

Oil on Shaped Panel8″ x 16″ x 1.5″ 2024 $1400 My current on-again, off-again series, “The Secret Life of Puppets” continues to be super fun to make. It is an unexpectedly challenging process to create a composition that makes sense as it wraps around the…

Trap-Jaw (Secret Life of Puppets Series)

Buzz-Off (Secret Life of Puppets Series)

Oil on Shaped Panel 10″ x 10″ 2025 $625 (SOLD) Nightcrawler has long been my favorite X-Man, and it was super fun putting my own spin on him and his signature teleportation power.

BAMF!

Oil on Shaped Panel 15″ x 30″ x 2″ 2025 $4000 The inspiration for this piece is the advance of encroaching malefic power structures, technocratic overreach, and the eroding of human freedoms. The invisible “Black Iron Prison” of Phillip K Dick, or the Archontic penal…

The Call

When I completed the exterior mural at Fitness Compound, they asked me “Looks amazing, now can you do the interior?” Even though it was a tight timeline, I was thrilled to get another chance to contribute another mural to their awesome space. For this mural,…

FITNESS COMPOUND INTERIOR

Oil on Panel 18″ x 24″ 2024 $3000 “How do you get your ideas?” I am often been asked this question. The answer varies from painting to painting. Sometimes it’s something I read about, sometimes it’s based on an experience I had, sometimes it’s based…

Rebirth

Fitness Compound in Bothell, WA invited me to create an eye-catching mural on their north exterior wall. It was a fun and challenging process to create a mural for this unusually shaped wall. When I design a mural like this, it’s important to remember that…

Fitness DNA

Designed by RYAN! Feddersen, Painted by Dan Cohen Creative Labs “Vanishing Falls is a monumental mural which playfully nods to our relationships with water across time. Once, glaciers created the abundance of our region. This vibrancy is depicted through silhouettes of indigenous plants. Currently, water serves…

Vanishing Falls

Painted with Overall Murals 13′ x 20′ Oil Enamel on Wood

Tinder

Painted with Old City Artists Old City Artists hired me to lead the crew that painted these dogs and cats at the Royal Canin factory in North Sioux City, SD. We decided to use Keim brand silicate based paint, because it’s one of the best…

Royal Canin

Painted with Overall Murals Oil Enamel on Stucco 13′ x 30′ 2023

ESPN NBA Finals

Techno-Fae is a fantastic realism oil painting by American artist Dan Cohen

Oil on Panel19.5″ x 14.5″ (framed)2023 $1500 (SOLD) Cyberspace: an Imaginal Land for creatures of the Imaginal. Is Cyberspace haunted by what in other times were referred to as, “the Good People”, “The Others”, or “The Fae”? After all, They offer us treats and treasures…

Techn0-Fae

Oil on Panel 12″ x 18″ 2023 $1500 There are secret lives just out of our peripheral vision. We rush about, consumed with our work, our hopes, our ambitions. However, The Other is always there. Strange lives we know nothing about, whose experience is so…

The Outsider

Oil On Panel 24″ x 24″ 2023 $4000 Searching for something meaningful outside of ourselves is not always part of a grand hero’s journey. Sometimes it’s quiet, almost still. It’s there that the Small Voice speaks, giving us clues, signs, visions, and hope.

Attunement

Oil on Panel 16″ x 11.5″ (17.5″ x 13″ framed) It was clear that no one had descended on this path for centuries. Immense, columnar crystals stood like sentinels gleaming in the lava-light. The molten earth had reclaimed most of the builders’ structures and statues,…

The Alchemy of Imagination