Right here’s an Oddity from me.
However first a fast announcement; The Canadian postal service is on a nation vast strike as of as we speak! So we’ll be quickly closing out our ETSY store. I’ll let you understand when issues are again up and operating. Thanks!
So sure;
I name this one “Face Blindness” (40×40″ Acrylic on Canvas) < Sort of a brand new media for me! I’ve been utilizing the acrylics for coloured grounds beneath oils, so it is a subsequent logical step. It definitely has its benefits whenever you’re on a deadline 🙂
This one is my (profitable!) submission for this 12 months’s Society of Canadian Artists elected members present, which is able to open December 14 (6pm) on the Viva Vida gallery right here in Montreal. (Nicely, in Beaconsfield, out west island manner).
I’m undecided if that is completed; that is the type of work you possibly can hold rolling on. And that’s one thing that acrylics appear to be made for. Immediate revisions! Nevertheless it’s in a state the place I prefer it, and if I am going again into it sooner or later it simply turns into a brand new factor.
So sure, sometimes I work from life; or from a photograph, which I don’t see any otherwise than life.
I usually see myself as a damaged digital camera. My eye-brain-hand hyperlink can take nice footage of something I can see, however they don’t come out very precisely 🙂 They arrive out artistically 🙂 It’s type of a sport to see, and re-interpret the world in my very own manner.
On the similar time, I’m at all times a contrarian. If I do one thing for some time, I’ll get an uncontrollable urge to do the alternative.
The concept right here was to make one thing fully out of my head, with out something.
It’s a type of doodling – which could sound like down taking part in the creative facet, however I believe doodling is a direct entry to the unconscious. Simply enable the hand to make issues, and it might end up the thoughts is considering one thing beneath the radar.
And, in fact, this piece got here from some precise doodles.
I used to be at a lecture, which, whereas attention-grabbing, was the type of factor I can hearken to and draw on the similar time. I generally suppose it’s impolite to sketch at a lecture or a efficiency, however alternatively, it’s the one manner I can sit nonetheless and hear 🙂 So I’ve to take it the way it comes.
And sure! As soon as once more I’m dishonest. I say I’m not something for reference, however I did revisit this sketchbook ceaselessly. So in a manner I’m working from a bunch of thumbnails.
In any case, I loved the expertise. It’s nicely value it to color one thing radically totally different out of your common fashion. Even should you don’t keep it up, the exploration will return into your each day work.
Take care and we’ll discuss to you quickly.
~m
