Friday, July 6, 2012

3 new paintings

It's weird, I tend to work on several projects at once so every once and a while I finish a bunch of them at the same time. I recently finished two sculptures and now I have three new paintings.  So a quick note on each of these paintings.


underland
40x40
oil
June 2012


Underland was inspired by two sources. One was a painting I saw while in Victoria, BC, which was a sort of barren landscape with a high horizon line and a small VW bug driving along the horizon. I saw it at a small gallery and sadly can't remember the gallery, painting, or the artists' name. The other inspiration was CS Lewis' Silver Chair.














twinseys
16x16
acrylic
July 2012
Twinseys started while I was at the coast. It then sat for a couple months while I tried to figure where to go with it. After a bunch of sketches I finally committed to a direction and the final piece just kind of flowed out to the completion. 






















dias de los muertos
16x16
acrylic
July 2012
dias de los muertos was interesting one to do.  It flowed quickly, starting really heavy on paint, then pulling paint off, adding paint, taking it off scraping and repeating until I hit the happy point. 




Sunday, July 1, 2012




Elemental

I had these four small canvases sitting around for a while, periodically starting but not really liking where things were going.  The idea for this began while sketching at a bar. At first it was muses, then dryads and nyads, but the image became more abstract. A forrest for the earth, red flames for fire, blue water, cloudy whites for wind. The elements are supported by a pillar surrounded by a small crowd of humanity. Above branching heavens and sun.



Earth
Fire

Water
Wind


Sun and Heavens

Base Humanity