Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Canada by Weather
4’x 5′ Acrylic and charcoal on unprimed, unstretched canvas. What is Canada but a giant weather forecast?
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Tags: Acrylic, Art, Drawing, Large Painting, Map, Painting, School
Below a Helicopter
Here is the second of three final paintings for this semester. This one changed a lot from start to finish and was met with a lot of interesting criticism along the way. I think a painting like this immediately appears to be unfinished because of its lack of colour, especially when parts of it like […]
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Tags: Acrylic, Art, Black and White, Helicopter, Landscape, Painting, School
Circles and Horizons
Oil and acrylic on canvas 4’3″x 4’3″ This was a mid term project that I never uploaded because I didn’t really like it. I still don’t like it much but I’m going to roll it up soon so I thought I would at least put it up here. It is supposed to be a response […]
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Tags: Abstract, Art, Colour, Landscape, Oil Paint, Painting, School
1/3 Final Paintings
8’x 6′ Acrylic on canvas The arrangement of dots here is taken from photos of gum on the sidewalk outside a local bar. I used information from four adjacent blocks of sidewalk and gridded them onto the painting one by one using black paint. In between blocks I lay down a coat of thinned […]
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Tags: Abstract, Art, Black and White, Large Painting, Painting, School, Sidewalk
Three Stages of a Sketch
Compressed charcoal on paper. ~ 8″x10″ This is a studying face. People hold very still when they concentrate. The chin and neck of this drawing are a little squeezed but aside from that I think it’s pretty successful. It’s been a while since I tried my hand at a […]
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Tags: Art, Charcoal, Drawing, Portraiture, Scraps, Sketch
Helicopters!
Some preparatory sketches for an upcoming painting. I’m not sure what kind of decisions I’m going to make colour wise on this one. It might end up very colourful, or just tonal like these drawings.
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Tags: Art, Charcoal, Drawing, Helicopter, Scraps, Sketch, Study
A White Bird
I am currently working on an independent study that in which I am making a bunch of these wooden birds. They are made out of two pieces of pine and are carved, sliced and then folded. The idea to work with them came to me as I was reading an essay by John Berger which talks about how […]
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Tags: Art, Fan Bird, John Berger, Pigeon, School, Sculpture, The White Bird
Street Pigeons
4′ x5′ Oil on canvas How and why do pigeons live in manufactured environments? What parallels are there between humans and pigeons?
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Tags: Abstract, Art, Colour, Large Painting, Oil Paint, Painting, Pigeon, School, Street Paint, Urban Environment
Killam Library from Memory
Lots of purple in this one. I’ve been getting mixed results about the green circle and the white dots on the side but the whole painting seems to hold together better than my previous one.
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Tags: Art, Dalhousie, Killam Library, Landscape, Oil Paint, Painting, School, Urban Sketching
Concrete Backdoor with Overhang
Back into large paintings again this semester. This one is 5’x6′. I have been experimenting with painting with a small foam paint roller. It works pretty well and its useful because I can layer thin coats of paint, but it also leaves strange patterns and a rippled effect. Sometimes it works out, but most of […]
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Tags: Art, Colour, Large Painting, Oil Paint, Painting, School, Urban Sketching
Still Life with Spiral Pattern
Here is my latest foray into glazing. I thought it might be interesting to work on something small and detailed after a semester of rather large and loose work. The decision to take pictures after every session of painting came because this style of painting lends itself to process and I thought it would […]
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Tags: Art, Colour, Glazing, Oil Paint, Painting, Pattern, Step by Step, Still Life
This was the second component to my final project for painting. The assignment was to cover a variety of familiar objects with patterned cloth that might conceal their identity, and then paint them. My objects were a big greek pot that I threw last year in throwing class, a stapler and a hammer. There are […]
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Tags: Art, Oil Paint, Painting, Pattern, School, Still Life, Tools
Final Painting: Container Pier
I’m not quite happy with this reproduction. The large dark portion in the middle should be quite a bit darker, and the shadows are too saturated. In this painting I was trying to capture the sense of stillness that one gets when they look at the stacks of containers at the container pier in Point […]
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Tags: Art, Landscape, Oil Paint, Painting, Palette Knife, Point Pleasant Park, School, Urban Landscape, Urban Sketching
Knowing a Small Rock
This is my final project for my drawing class. I decided to find a small object and, without looking at it, do a series of blind contour drawings (without looking at the paper) based only on my sense of touch. I did this by holding the rock in my pocket and feeling it with my […]
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Tags: Art, Blind Contour, Drawing, Graphite, Rock, Sensoryscapes, Study
The Cartography of Time
This project was in response to our assignment, the cartography of time. I chose to melt a block of ice on my board and mark its progress by tracing its puddle’s expanding perimeter. It took me about three hours of tracing. I know because I labelled the time that I made every outline. After […]
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Tags: Art, Cartography of Time, Drawing, Ice, Oil Paint, Painting, School
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