Painting
Mill Woods Artists Collective Art Show March – April
Take a look at the great show that the Mill Woods Artists Collective has put together at the Koffee Café on 6120 28 Ave NW. In 2011, I took a drawing 400 class instructed by Caitlin Wells, where we were encouraged to do a series about some sort of mechanical…
An Edmonton Urbanscape V
Today I had to take a look at the contrast of the paintings. If the correct color is there but the contrast is not…the painting will look terrible. The solution I go towards is printing off a black and white copy of the image and compare it to the reference. …
Travelling through Crowsnest Pass by Train
Counting the hours…shouldn’t be doing it, but it gives me a good gauge where I am time wise. I won’t linger in the details when I need to simply paint without over thinking it. This painting definitely has a different feel to it compared to the bridge. Much more organic….
An Edmonton Urbanscape IV
Painting from yesterday Painting after today. Detail of the bridge. Trying to figure out how I will do the pillars and if I am happy with the river before I do all four of them. Another detail on the left side of the painting. I think this part is…
An Edmonton Urbanscape III
6am-10am Woke up at 5 this morning in attempts to complete the painting before I go off to work. Didn’t happen. There are many exciting things happening in the painting though that is for sure. I realized that the image that I got printed out is much more purple than…
An Edmonton Urbanscape II
After looking through my paints, I realized that I should pick up some purple. I suppose I could have mixed some but I thought it would be best to get the closest pigment. I understand that I have an artistic license to do whichever with the painting…but sometimes I get…
An Edmonton Urbanscape
The beginnings of a 60 x 20 painting. To say that I am excited would be an understatement. Is it h x w or w x h? The easel was made this year in a construction summer class completely solid oak! It took about 16-18 hours to build and the…
Sketching again
I’m going to try a new method of sketching…capturing strangers. Thanks again Nicky G, Philip and Sanjib for allowing me to sketch you!
Neglecting the Innate Talent
Don’t put off exercising, eating right, or leave your spiritual life to the wayside. This I know. Yet I thought my talent was innate and magical…a superpower that was there when I called upon it. I’ve realized just how much I have forgotten how to look at an image and break…
Taking out the Laundry
What a feeling to have back…the intrinsic desire to create art for the pure enjoyment. What a BFA can do to someone’s appetite to create…is slightly ironic. There is no time to rest and think things through. There is much inspiration… perhaps so much it becomes inspiration overload….
