Hand Study
8" x 8"
Oil On Gessoed Panel
2024
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.
This one is slow. Somewhere between an assemblage of parts and actual painting.
At the studio at 44 Gaukel.
Tornado Weather (King Street West, Kitchener)
Oil On Canvas
12 x 24"
2023
At O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque
It's lovely to be shown alongside David Hockney, David Bolduc and Mr. Lukacs at O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque.
A Copy Of A Section From Poussin's 'L'Inspiration du poète'
8 x 16"
Oil on gessoed, mounted wood panel
Copy II of Delauney's Eiffel Tower.
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
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.