My hope is that this blog will help to keep me motivated in creating new works consistently and allow more people to see my new paintings, as well as understand the process I take in creating them.
I have been working on a music icon series as of late, this is one of the latest. I wanted to do a unique take on Dylan by ditching the iconic glasses and focusing on a back lit silhouetted contrast.
Terrible, how bad I have been about posting. Here is a recent commission I did for friend of the family. He recently retired from fire fighting and this was the last blaze he ever saw in action.
I tried to stay away of the traditional colours of red, yellow and green that are typically used to portray the reggae singer. I did this one with acrylics on a sandy textured surface.
This one I painted as a Christmas gift for my sister, done in acrylics. The inspiration came from one of the first good paintings that I ever completed. Just checking to see if lightning strikes twice.
I don't often do the same painting twice but for Trevor Linden I will definitely make the exception. It wasn't too much like repeating myself anyway; as I shifted styles, muted the colours and played with the cropping between these 2 pieces. Both were done in oils, the top one was a commission.
My first post back from my week in New York! I did this one as a commission for someone I used to work with. At the time everyone was asking me for paintings of African animals; it seems that if you do one painting of a subject people start thinking that that is your niche. I don't recall how many jungle cats, monkeys and elephants I painted at the time but let's just say that I've had my fill for at least a while. "Camouflage" was painted in acrylic in front of a live studio audience.