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April News
Hello Everyone! My PleinAir Artist Collective has a show at Leaside Library for the month of April! Drop by if you are in the āhoodā! Heads up that I have a solo show at North York Central Library in Juneā¦ I have 7 pieces in the Leaside show, and will have a LOT more at NYCL!
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Preparing for another season of Plein Air!
I have been busy this last month taking a deeper dive into colours, tones and value studies. With two shows coming up (Leaside Library with the Pleinair Artist Collective for the full month of April and a solo show at North York Central Library in June), I have some goals to work towards! I will also participate in the Hamilton Plein Air Festival June 5-8 for their second annual eventā¦
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Sustained Art Practice: Lessons from Back-to-Back Residencies in Canada
June 8/2024 I am on the plane now, returning to Toronto after 2 back-to-back artist residencies in British Columbia.: first in Wells, then in Vernon. It is my first time spending a full month focused on art, and it has been a qualitatively different experience than the two-week residencies I have previously done on Toronto Island. I would like to describe my experiences and share why this moreā¦
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The Strada Easel Challenge September 2023
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Summertime, Hanlan's Point 2023
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Pen and Watercolour Sketches
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Toronto Island, Summer 2022
Toronto Island, SummerĀ 2022
Trout Pond, Hanlanās Point, 2022 Just want to share news of a most enjoyable two weeks of summer on Toronto Island. It was just enough time for me to get used to the logistics of packing up my plein air supplies into my bicycle basket, putting my tripod in my backpack, and visiting any one of a number of gorgeous sites to paint on the island. Repeating this a number of times helped me to developā¦
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Molding Paste and Texture
Experiments in Colour #1, 24Ć36. I seem to be enjoying myself with abstraction these days. It is a great way to explore colour, composition, mark making and media. Completely non-objective abstraction allows for more freedom in the adventure: highly recommended! This painting was done over an old painting that mimicked Jackson Pollockās house paint drippings. I had questioned if I shouldā¦
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Non-Objective Abstraction
Untitled. 36 x 48. Mixed Media This work was a pleasure to do, from start to finish. I began with the notion of limitations. Just black and white, then just a little layering, then adding a variety of marks, then looking for patterns, shapes, negative spacesā¦ paying attention to opaque and translucent areas, and adding some colour. I find it interesting that despite how little colour there isā¦
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Abstraction with Figurative Elements
HoāOponopono. Monoprint with Mylar on wood panel, 11 x 14. This monoprint was waiting for a little inspiration when my friend Karen Kofman (thornhillmeditation.com) introduced me to the Hawaiian concept of HoāOponopono. It is a beautiful idea of restoring balance for self and other, and is in the form of a prayer which can be chanted repeatedly, as follows: I am sorry, please forgive me, Iā¦
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Abstraction with Monoprints
Spring, 2021.Mixed Media on Rag Paper. 22x 15. There is no end to the directions I can take with abstraction. This is a bit problematic because sometimes I feel like I want to settle down to one way of doing things. And I know that I can do that, except that exploring new media and techniques is so interesting and exciting. (I should commit myself to one way of doing things for a period of time,ā¦
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Still Abstracting
In the Woods. Acrylic, Gesso and Inc, 30 x 40. I am very much enjoying working in abstraction. The process is very freeing, and allows me to be much more playful and spontaneous at the beginning. Eventually, I have to āmake somethingā out of what Iāve started, and the process slows down to become more deliberate and contemplative. I find this kind of work a bit like a Rorschach test. What I seeā¦
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A few thoughts on Abstraction
A few thoughts onĀ Abstraction
I have been working with abstraction a bit more lately, and find that it taps into a different part of me emotionally than the more representational work that I do. In fact, it seems a little more personal and expressive, perhaps because it forces me to make up the narrative more, rather than take my lead from what I see. Of course, representational art is always abstracted to lesser or greaterā¦
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Duane Keiser Lesson 6: Putting it all together
In the end, Duane Keiser taught me that premier coup painting is a practice and an end into itself, but it is also a means to achieving better paintings after the premier coup painting is done. There is a wonderful bit of painting, sometimes, that needs a little tweaking. Or there might be the start of a painting that provides inspiration for developing an idea. In revisiting my paintings, I didā¦
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Duane Keiser Lesson #5: Stay Loose
Duane Keiser Lesson #5: Stay Loose
This is somewhat related to painting fast. If you donāt have time, you have to decide whatās most important and edit out the details that do not add to the story. āStaying looseā means reminding myself of why I am painting. That first impulse is what I always want to hang on to. Capturing the feeling, and laying it on the surface with paint has to happen with a sustained focus. At the same time,ā¦
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Duane Keiser Lesson#4: Notice the Details
Duane Keiser Lesson#4: Notice the Details
San Francisco Ravelry Stash The importance of variation in pinks, blues and whites, as well as all other colours and values cannot be underestimated! Pay attention! I could get lost in all the nuances of colour. But knowing when to simplify and when to exaggerate is a skill that develops with practice. I loved playing with the packaging that this yarn arrived in; coordinated colours, reflectingā¦
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Duane Keiser Lesson Learned #3: Appreciate!
Duane Keiser Lesson Learned #3: Appreciate!
There is so much around us that we may not notice. I can sit in one spot and find a multitude of subject matter to observe and paint. And further, the same object can become a different subject altogether, just by looking at it from a different perspective, or angle or in a different light (or mood!). This little tube of Gamblin oil was reflecting the joy of painting back to me, even against aā¦
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