Snowy Streets

This painting is based on a photo I took from my home during last weekend's snowstorm in St. John’s. I was fixated on the image because, at the time, I was amazed at how much of my neighbourhood was being visually blotted out by the snowstorm.

I started this with the intention of doing a thin acrylic underpainting as a base for an oil painting but I really liked the colours I was mixing with the acrylics so I just kept going with those.

More pix and details available at my shop.

“Snowy Streets"
acrylic on canvas
12" x 12”
$120

Watchful eye

A contribution for Illustration Friday’s “tree” theme.

Big alien, little planet

A submission for Illustration Friday's "lonely" topic.

Limelight

Blue peaks painting

My mountain peak iPad doodles have evolved into a triptych oil painting using three masonite panels each measuring 8” x 10”. I like the result. The panels had a warm acrylic coat over the gesso so I simply wiped away the blues to expose the highlights.
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Winter shades

Jury's still out on whether I love it or hate it but I’ve received lots of positive feedback.

It's another heavily textured acrylic. Plaster base, several gesso coats followed by at least a dozen layers of paint and glaze.

The trees were made with thinned paint and applied with an eyedropper... gravity was in the driver's seat.

I think I've got these out of my system for the time being. Back to the oils soon.

Winter Shades
Acrylic and plaster on canvas
20" x 16"

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Stripes

Illustration Friday's theme this week is "Stripes". So... Bill Murray. What else is there? (I threw some actual stripes in the background... just in casey).

Edgar Allan Poe

For Illustration Friday's "Scary" theme.

Fruity bouquet

I couldn't decide between painting an apple or painting a bottle.

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Fruity bouquet
Oil on canvas
11" x 14"

Ill-fated cabbage

This is a doodle from an old sketchbook. I really should have redrawn it but I wasn't up for it tonight. I did, however, add some colour and shading in Photoshop. Based on a true story from the year of the Great Coleslaw Famine. Sad times indeed.

Posted for Illustration Friday's theme, Cultivate.

Spoons

This one's for Illustration Friday's theme-of-the-week: "stir". (The middle one is actually a spatula... he made a fuss so I had to let him be in it.) This one is available in the shop.

Spoons
Oil on MDF
8" x 8"

Detective

This is my contribution for Illustration Friday this week ("Detective" theme). It's my first linocut in a few months; I was happy that I was able to turn it around in a single sitting. Pleased with it overall but, as is the way with linos, there are always a few cuts I regret. I'm too tired to do any serious printing with it right now... I just knocked off a couple of quick prints to see what I had.

No great story behind the subject I'm afraid... just some anonymous Victorian guy I found on the interweb. Although he does have a bit of a Watson thing going on.

Detective

4" x 6"

linocut

IF: Expired

Illustration Friday's theme word this week is "expired". And this is where my brain went. Sad but true.

Adrift

Clumsy

Based on recent art news.

Illustration Friday

Fueled by the wild applause at the Johnston birthday party, Eugene allowed those imaginary walls to get a little too close.

Hatch

If I were an astronaut, this would be me.

Illustration Friday's theme-o-the-week: "Hatch".

(Patent idea: "Key in a Comet". Much like the spare key in a fake rock concept, but for astronauts. Genius.)

This one very nearly never came about. As I was inking the chin, the nib of my pen decided to belch out the entire load of ink. I either had to find a creative solution or start again. Being the lazy man that I am, he now has a beard.

The Optimist

This for Illustration Friday's "Entangled" challenge. It's an older cartoon cleaned-up and snazzified with Technicolor. Here's the original pen/ink drawing.

Swine flu

I have no doubt that getting the swine flu is bad, but I find it hard to believe that we are in the midst of a pandemic any more than any other year with any other flu. There. I said it.

More chicken pixels

I've been fooling around with Painter IX today, trying to figure out if it's worth learning to use. I probably should have cracked open the paints and used one of the many blank canvases I've got lying around but I can't resist multiple undos. I enjoyed the process. Being able to backtrack is great but navigating the controls seems to really limit spontaneity. But I'm sure it'll get easier with practice.