Mushroom Table

F orest snacks?

Bugging out

 T weedle dee, tweedle beetle


Sitting 1



Sitting 2

This is my first painting for (guess) painting class this year! It's 20x28" (I think), oil on canvas.
Still in progress. We showed up to class that morning and the professor announced we were not doing the model painting as planned, and basically we were to forge ahead on whatever we wanted.
 I had nothing prepared, so I just grabbed my sketchbook and started this painting, essentially based on a doodle (You may recognize this beetle character-thing from earlier works).

I really don't mind it. It's kind of funky. I'm afraid I'm loosing the lightness and looseness though that it had at the start, which is a common issue for me when it comes to painting. It's a very spontaneous sort of thing, though, so I'll just keep working on the little guy and see where we go. I'll scan that sketch later.

Gulping Guppies

2008

T he first class, we were assigned to re-do an older drawing that we didn't like.

I generally hate really by-the-book assignments like this, but what can you do.

I picked the above one, which I'd given to a friend, which I didn't like so much... it's just kind of quick. I liked the nosey, mouthy premise, though, and did a more compositionally resolved and refined drawing of it.

life paintin'

A s usual, we began the semester with painting from the model. I decided to go with acrylic (a medium I haven't life painted with since grade 10), it turned out alright
(Although the woman looks kind of manly). We used the full 3.5 hours to paint the same pose, and if I'd had more time I would have tried to refine things like her hands and feet a lot more... the canvas is 20x28" or something, so I had to move fairly quickly.
Overall, a nice little warm-up.

Make it FUNKY....

T his is from the end of last year... I forgot to document it before now!

Mr. Funky is part of my 'pickled' series.

Hello!

Back in MTL!
........ and back to productivity.

We made some lovely paper flowers and hung them around the apartment :)

Fungi Follow-up

Mushaboom

Y ou may recall my earlier ink/watercolour drawing of very similar mushroom stacks (or you can see it if you scroll down a bit, or click here). I've been wanting to continue my fungus fascination on canvas, and this is the start of my newest painting.  I really worked up the bottom half of the piece today, I'm really happy with it so far, especially the funky beetle with the flower growing from his back...

Garage Garbage Galore

S neak peek of a drawing I'm in the midst of working on. It's quite large (don't have the exact dimensions, too lazy to get up and check), and my standard pen & ink & watercolour. It's completion will involve more images of old furniture, lots more, and perhaps some layers of rice paper.

C-Horsies

T his is an ink drawing from about a month ago, for a friend who had requested seahorses. I looked at random pictures off the internet for the horses, and my previous sketch for the background.

I must say, I was pretty fond of the line drawing before I put colour in...

So here's the finished product. Unfortunately there's a glare on the right side of the image, but you get the idea. I must say, I think I liked it better without colour, but she seemed to like it anyway!

Two days at the Bottom of the Ocean

T his is a detailed little drawing from my sketchbook. I was looking at an article in an old National Geographic - the sketch came in handy for the seahorse drawing I was commissioned a few days later.

judging completed

I finished up this painting a while ago, and finally photographed with the new camera!
Not my favourite work, but I had fun finishing it with scribbles of oil pastels on top on the dried paint.

Slides n' Ladders

T his peice came quickly.... it exploded a bit. I had fun with the charcoal over gesso technique. Still not resolved, though. It's also my first acrylic peice in a while.

More Offering

P ut a lil' more time into this.... it's lost some momentum, unfortunately.

Slide Cont.

G ot a chance to work quite a bit on the spiritual painting today... neither of these are very good pictures unfortunately.... crooked and with flash.... still working.

Spirituality dans mon esprit

O ur fourth and final assignment of the semster in painting is on the topic of 'spirituality'. Immeadiately I thought of how it feels to be outside on a sunny day, strolling in the forest, going on thoughtful gamoreet, or at the beach, or just lying down with music, living in the moment, in a place or state of mind of peace. Know what I mean?

One of the places I associate most with having time to relax, reflect and enjoy trees is at Delta Beach, and I'm going to be using many of these images as reference. Taken by yours truly!

Ultra Bird in Space and Cherry Face Collage

A s part of my painting project, we were to paint from a section of collage. Above was the section I chose from the 20 others I had. This is the beginnings of the painting below.

Peak of Bill. (pickled and squared)

U nfinished third drawing in my Preserves series.

Applaud the guitarist!

Francine. (pickled and squared)

F irst of a series of drawing projects

The Offering (3)

A little more work put into this now. I'm really focusing on making the hands and frog-girls pop right now, along with the flute-fish.

Walgate Wagon

I came across these ceramic delights when I was searching for an artist to base my class essay on. I dont believe I've ever posted work that isn't mine before. Why? I have no clue. Random internet discoveries are so crucial to my daily inspiration.

I really like this particular woman's sculptures, and can totally relate to her bright colours and cute animals all smooshed into an adorably chaotic package. Walgate is the name and I like her style.

The offering (2)

Five feet of starting

N ew painting!!
..... work in progress. 5 x 5" oil.

Fungi Takeover

T hese two collages are from a previous series -

- Which I used as reference for the drawing below.

Metamorphi-phy

I created these watery transformations for my drawing long-project. They started as a series of sketches that I couldn't resist painting - they are just a preliminary step for a more developed concept, however.

There are some inconsistencies among the interactions of the people and animals, some look as if they're becoming one and some of them look like costumes... This doesn't bother me too much because I was just painting basically everything that came to mind. I'm not sure which direction I want to go in terms of my next step, but regardless I think they work as a series for now.

lieghkthoos

C ommissioned by a friendly, this is an image of the 23 x 25in oil painting.

Squid bid

U nderwater tentacles vs. pearl of power. This is a semi-complete commission, in watercolour and ink.

Paint in the brain

J ust some sweet brainstorming fun for my next painting.... she's gunne be a fatty (5x5ft)