Artfully Walls has Some Interesting Things!

 

That's me at top left.....they change their front pages from time to time. The site is worth a look if you are interested in some good quality, framed reproductions. I'm glad to be a part of it....

Stand (SOLD)

I have painted this old stand a number of times. Glorious in all seasons, but it seemed especially impressive in January snow. The next morning (today) I was snowed in. Acrylic and pencil on single ply unprimed archival matte board. I find it remarkable how many people do not seem to like trees. Landowners, hydro companies, roads departments, municipalities,  are constantly taking down more than are replanted....more than need to go.

Cedar Survival (SOLD)

...a row of small cedars on a windy hill....it's hard to keep them alive there, but with steady attention they should survive. Acrylic and pencil on unprimed archival paper, 11 x 15 inches.

Survivor (SOLD)

Acrylic and pencil on unprimed painting paper 10.5 x 12 inches, image size 8.5 x 10 inches.......everywhere I look they take down trees, destroy hedgerows...fewer places for birds and animals to live....nowhere for my soul to go.......

Will there be anything else, Madam?

Christmas Eve, Early Darkness

 

Acrylic collage on archival Whatman paper, 8 x 10, image size 6.5 x 8.5 inches. This is a little way into a series which aims at being a bit more automatic, although this is about image 5 or 6 into the series and the latter ones have more deliberation than the first ones.

How To Make a Collage!

How to make a collage....

 -dig around for a piece of painted paper, but don't dig too long or you'll drive yourself crazy
-cut or tear the paper.....put big pieces down first....the first 2 pieces cover the whole image size
-paint on the glue, apply immediately to the surface, place typing paper on top and rub, quickly turn typing paper over and rub again, so that you rub out any glue that squeezed out....don't let your hand touch the collage....much
-put your hand in the water bucket every so often, and dry off with gnarly old towel (old is good!), so that you don't stick to your coffee cup
-proceed until you are happy with your collage.....and always be happy.
-stare at your finished collage until you suck the life out of it....at this point you have to make something else....and repeat, forever....
-save the bigger pieces of cut up leftover collage paper, but the smaller pieces have to go in the garbage.....or you will surely drive yourself crazy! (but those smaller leftover pieces also look soooo nice....)
-always clean up after every session (things can get very STRANGE very quickly)

Early Winter (both SOLD)

 

Both are 8 x 10 inches, on matte board, gessoed both sides.

November Snow.....(both SOLD)

 

2 recent works. The drawing is of November snow, though it seems like it would be deep winter. The painting shows the last bits of snow after a quick one day melt.

November 7, Garden Hill

 

 

November....strange, quiet, surprising, in both colour and mood.....

November 9, Light Fall

 

......the light goes quickly in November.....at 4:00 evening is not far off....
8 x 10 inches, acrylic and pencil on matte board, gessoed both sides.

Lookout, November 2 (SOLD)

 

From high ground, looking onto the valleys below....8 x 8 inches, acrylic and pencil on matte board, gessoed both sides.

Garden Hill, November 1

 

8 x 8 inches, acrylic and  pencil on matte board gessoed both sides.....overcast, wet days of fall...with a light covering of snow that didn't stay.

Hallowe'en Rain, Lost Dog Hill (SOLD)

11 x 15 pencils on paper....a steady, persistent rain as October turns.....

Millbrook Run. (SOLD)

 

This short series continues....drawing pencils on paper, 11 x 15 inches.

Overcast, Lost Dog Hill (SOLD)

 

Pencil on paper, 11 x 15 inches, 2b, 4b, 7b pencils.

Dusk, October Fields

11 x 15 inches, 2b, 4b, and 7b pencil on heavy paper.

Nightfall, October (SOLD)

A bittersweet time....the dark days come. I often get home so late that I'm walking in the dark or near dark. A favourite location.....the distant view at dusk reveals lights off in the distance, suggested here by the 2 specks of white. I like coming to the collages every so often. They provide a break in the type of thinking involved in the paintings....

Rolling In (SOLD)

2 b, 4b, 7b pencils....an interesting process for my AP students to try. Keep the pencil moving, hatch, scribble, line, hold the pencil by the tip, look for line variety, layer and over layer in varying directions, create connection between parts, balance black/white/grey, use the eraser as a technique......

Pencil Drawing, 11 x 15 inches.

Every so often, one of these pencil drawings gets made....usually with 2b, 4b, and 7b pencils.