Here is another recent painting. Like the last one I posted, Lost Forest is smallish (a couple feet wide) and again painted with oils. There is a lot of detail, particularly textural, that is lost in the photograph, but then it’s a painting and not… Read More
This is a smallish (a couple feet wide) recent diptych called Broadcast. It’s an oil painting, created over quite a number of sessions. Although it is difficult to photograph well (for a bad photographer with a point and shoot camera), I think you can… Read More
This post about Ferropolis comes to you courtesy of The Presurfer. The Presurfer is a blog run by Gerard Vlemmings. I’ve been checking in there fairly regularly for several years. I enjoy it because you never know what you’re going to see over there. Ferropolis… Read More
We ventured out to Bloor St W this afternoon for the opening of an exhibition of paintings by Claude Breeze. Of course we brought Memphis and Ellie Mae along. The show is at Robert Kananaj Gallery on Bloor near Landsdowne. I’ve known Claude and his… Read More
Several days ago, I posted some pictures of a small group of constructions I’ve been working on. These things have been gnawing at my ever so tiny brain and I can’t keep my hands off them. Finally, I tore one of them apart and added… Read More
8 / 73 is the last of this group of small constructions, at least for now, as I turn my attention back to painting. It’s the only one in the group that features instructions: READ THE MANUAL BEFORE INSTALLING. Who does that?
It turns out that you can glue a chunk of metal to a piece of foam with a glue gun, as long as you wait just a little bit so the melted glue isn’t hot enough to melt the foam. Hmmm…Maybe I should have just… Read More
Another construction. Ghost. Perfect for the season. And did I tell you Tuffy P went on a ghost walk last week? True that – down at the exhibition grounds. Speaking of Hallowe’en, one of our neighbours has gone all out decorating his place. He’s done… Read More
I’ve been messing about with some little constructions. I’ve been thinking of them as doodles or sketches in a way, breaking down old patterns and ways of looking at things more than anything else. I don’t know where they’ll take me, if they take me… Read More
I finished off a new painting the other day. This one is called False Morel, or The Mycologist’s Bad Dream. It’s acrylic and found chunk of car part on unprimed plywood panel. This painting is 6 feet wide and 4 feet high. I found the… Read More
27th Street 