Friday, March 15, 2024

I Love Delauney!

I love doing copies of works I admire. It's a great way to see yourself into them, to discover things like feelings, symbols, colours and approaches one might otherwise miss. There's always a bit of folly in doing such a thing, but I hope that the tribute is more present.

Copy of Delauney's "Homage To Bleriot"
Oil On Canvas
36 x 36"
2024



2 New Paintings

 Chrysler Building From The Empire State & The American Radiator Building

Oil On Gessoed Oval Wood Panel
Each 17.2 x 24.4 cm (6.77 x 9. 6 inches)
2024
at O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque








Wednesday, December 20, 2023

New Painting

Renewal Schemes

24" x 40"

Oil On Canvas

2024






Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Making Cities

This one is slow. Somewhere between an assemblage of parts and actual painting.

 At the studio at 44 Gaukel.










Thursday, August 17, 2023

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Between Edna And Ann

 Between Edna And Ann

Oil On Canvas

24 x 40"

2023


At O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque.



Sunday, July 23, 2023

Dennis And Harry

 Dennis And Harry

Oil On Canvas

20 x 20"

2023



Lot Off Weber St.

Lot Off Weber St.

Oil On Canvas

12x24"

2023



At O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque





Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Tornado Weather

 Tornado Weather (King Street West, Kitchener)

Oil On Canvas

12 x 24"

2023


At O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Tickled Pink

 It's lovely to be shown alongside David Hockney, David Bolduc and Mr. Lukacs at O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque.




Saturday, February 11, 2023

Two New Portraits

 Alison (Oil Sketch)

Oil On Canvas

12" x 12"

2023




Greg

Oil On Canvas

12" x 16"

2023


Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Two Portrait Heads (details, oil sketch stage)

 






Detail - Copy from Poussin's 'The Inspiration Of The Poet'

 A Copy Of A Section From Poussin's 'L'Inspiration du poète'

8 x 16"

Oil on gessoed, mounted wood panel

2022



Sunday, December 11, 2022

A New Painting!

 Copy II of Delauney's Eiffel Tower.

36x48"
Oil On Canvas
2022

I love Delauney's work - and especially this one from his Eiffel Tower series. So, this is the second time I've painted a copy of it. Great fun.



Sunday, December 4, 2022

Morning Embarkation

Finished at last!

This will be going to O'Connor Gallery in a few days.


Morning Embarkation

48 x 60" (approx)

Oil On Canvas

2007-2022






"Frankhensteen!"

I thought I would do an oil painting of Gene Wilder from the material for 'Young Frankenstein', for a friend, partly as an exercise - I thought it would interesting to do a grisaille. That's a grey layer that underlies a certain way of oil painting - grey beneath, then colour on top. I don't usually work that way - I mix a full palette on the side then dive in - but this was interesting to paint. Especially for how few layers of paint it needed to complete itself. Some of my colour ones are twelve, fifteen, thirty layers of glazes and whatnot. This one is about three.


We loved the movie growing up. Still do.



Saturday, October 29, 2022

Monday, October 24, 2022

Corot Variation (for Lee Ann)

 Well it finally worked out.

It's off to O'Connor Gallery.

Corot Variation (for Lee Ann)
Oil On Canvas
30x40"
2022



Early Spring

This painting, too, is heading off to O'Connor. 

It's an early work I did, with some later retouchings. 


'Early Spring', 

36"x48"

Oil On Canvas, 

2002.



Saturday, October 22, 2022

Who?

A little oil sketch I just did of Christopher Eccleston as the 1st (newly rebooted ) Dr. Who. It's not based on one of my own photos - it's from one I pulled from the 'web, so it' s not for sale. That would be tawdry. Mr. Eccleston has a great face, though, so I thought it would be fun to paint him as fortifying practice. Cha!