Voyager

My newest series of paintings in the works.

Climbers

Seekers

Adventurers

Onlookers

Finders

A lesson in abstraction

Abstract Attempt 2 ~ Acrylic ~ 40" x 30"

I took an abstract painting workshop yesterday. It was fun and freeing; very different from my usual tight, controlled style. I think it was an important excersize in creating and letting go of any pre-conceived notions, and just letting the paint do it's thing. We used no brushes, no palettes, just plopped our paint and medium directly onto the canvas and had at 'er with a roller. It is a really fun way to paint, without planning anything and giving ourselves permission to just create intuitively and have fun doing it. 

I still kept looking for my brush.

Now that I have all four paintings I made that afternoon at home staring at me, I am having a hard time not going back into them to making something more out of them. I don't think I can abandon my anal, representational tendancies, but I think I can grow the techniques I learned into something that is more me. In the search for a genuine artistic voice, getting outside of my little box can only help things along...

Abstract Attempt 1~ Acrylic ~ 24" x 30"

The last big one from RDC

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas ~ 60" x 60"

I've recently returned from a 6 week trip to Asia, including Japan, Vietnam and Thailand. Now that I am home and paying attention to my blog again, I realized I forgot to post my last painting from my residency at Red Deer College. Here is it!

I am looking forward to getting back to the easel once I beat this pesky jet lag and get back in the groove. Cheers!

Final installation of my one hour portrait project

One hour in 19 seconds

I recently finished my residency at Red Deer College, were I painted 51 one hour portraits. This is a time lapse video of my painting session with Jason.

One Hour Portraits: Final installment

Laura

Noemi

Paul

Laura

Greg

Braden

Heather

Brandi Lee

Dan

Victoria

Dorothy

Luke

Dave

Carl

Jenna

Larry

The Big One: A work in progress

While I've been artist in residence at Red Deer College, I've had lots of inquiring minds asking about  my process. I was recently working on a 72" x 48" canvas and this is how it went over a couple of weeks:

priming

underpainting

rough sketch

starting to block the forms in

Finished painting

One hour Portraits: I've lost track of the days...

I was trying to upload my portraits as they were done, but my internet has been down for a week. So here is what I've done the last week or so. 32 portraits and counting!

Sydney

Ohpomahtaow

Nick

Ian

Mark

Katy

Kaleb

Kaylee

Trudy

Kyle

Rebecca

Mike

Rebecca

Molly

Paul

Veronica