Breathing

Large painting, small painting, large painting, small painting....
- inhale, exhale -
It's a nice rhythm.

Door Type ll
(cs #15)
architectural drawings, oil on canvas
12 x 18"

Systems
(cs #16)
architectural drawings, oil on canvas
12 x 18"

a hard day's work

Painted all day and this is what I have to show for it!



This looks somehow messy...

Hauled out an old one and decided to re-work it a bit.

Now they dry for a week or so and then I can work back into them!

the wall

The paintings are on the wall.
The artist is off the wall.

(oh I am such a poser)


And the card I made for me mum's birthday.

all together now..!

sit awhile

Another small one - 15 x 15"
Not sure if it's finished yet.... just wait a bit.


I'm on a mission to use up all my old bits of paint, including student-quality stuff from *gasp* at least 12 years ago. It's great that oil paint basically never goes bad in the tube, but that's no excuse to keep it around for so long!

Just these 3 tubes made all the colours in a couple of new underpaintings. Neat-o.

small is all right

oops!
oh well, never really liked that painting anyway....
Let's see what it will become now!


And then I finished a few:

10 x 21"


11 x 19"


15 x 22"

All of those have bits of architectural drawings collaged under the paint. The drawings are mostly covered up, but tiny bits still peek through the colours.

something old

Cleaning up my files tonight and found some "oldies but goodies"

1998 - 16 x 16"

2001 - 33 x 50"

2003 - 35 x 50"

Not sure if my work has gotten better, or just more.... slick?
Hmmmm.
Interesting, looking at these old things now.

big and small

Got to the studio this morning and didn't feel like working on the big stuff. So I pulled out all the little wee paintings and looked at them for the first time in a couple of months.

Lots!
And mostly unfinished - better start tying up some of these loose ends before things get out of hand.

Decided to work on my 8x10's.

Mixed up a nice green for this pair, adding a little walnut oil this time. Haha, so much for pure glazes with no mediums whatsoever! I like the fine lines I can get when the paint is thinned down, what can I say.


Worked 3 different colours on this pair - the red was last.


And some of yesterday's underpaintings:


72 x 43"



45 x 25"



3@ 31 x 31" each

And a big one which I think may be finished:

41 x 71"

frosty morning

hours become days

inspirited

"I think that people who are not artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired. Out of the work comes the work."
-John Cage

tryouts

I made these little ink sketches while in Toronto in December:

Used acrylic gloss medium to adhere them to wood panels:

12x12" each, the paper wraps around the sides a bit:


And a couple of random drawings collaged one atop the other:

I like how the felt pen bleeds when I brush the medium over it, but my collaging skills leave something to be desired - the paper wrinkles and blisters, which becomes more noticeable as the medium dries:

I would like to make a neater job of this. Going to make some more drawings and experiment.

the cycle continues...

26 x 46"



3@ 31 x 31" each

Something In Common

oil on stitched canvas
56 x 62"

happiness train comin' through!

After almost a month of no real studio time I've finally got the creative fires burning full strength again. Feels mighy fine!

remember this stack of wood?

now it looks like this:


yes, I like odd sizes.
So that was yesterday & the day before.

Today I finally got out the colours

and had some fun!



nope, none of those are finished but I'm excited about them so there they are in all their unfinished glory.

This is a crop of a small canvas - trying out some oil stick painting. Can you see the dark red lines I drew with it? The texture is very grainy. Not sure I like it, but will keep experimenting. Maybe brush over &c.

Last thing I did today was to stretch this canvas on one of the stretchers I just built:

Tonorrow I will gesso it, and thus begins another painting.

Wow, that was a very productive day!
:)