New Painting: Sturm & Drang

Sturm & Drang 30" x 60" Diptych, Oil on Canvas $1995.00
This is the second last painting of the exhibit. One left to go!
The exhibit is at the Black Duck Gallery, in Lunenburg NS. July 13th-August 8th. Opening reception, Sunday, July 13th from 2-4pm.

Also, Charley Parker has featured my work on his blog: http://www.linesandcolors.com/
Thanks Charley!

I Need Your Help

I'd like an opinion on which painting I should use to advertise my upcoming exhibit with. I've narrowed it down to five choices. If you could leave a comment, or vote (if I get my polling application to work), that would be awesome. They are, in order of appearance below, Lift, Clouds Building, Collision, Devil's Paintbrush, Storm Clearing. Thanks everybody!

New Painting: Dawn

Dawn 22" x 28" Oil on Canvas, 2008 $795.00

New Painting: Dusk

Dusk 22" x 28" Oil on Canvas, 2008 $795.00
I'm excited about this painting, as soon as it was finished I couldn't wait to post it. Very Nova Scotian, very Group of Seven-ish. It's definitely a new favorite for me.

Breakaway II

Breakaway II 24" x 18" Oil on Canvas, 2008 $595.00
The second in the breakaway series. I like the fact that paired with the one below, these paintings appear as two studies of the same place. To me the cloud movement suggests time passing.

New Painting: Breakaway

Breakaway 30" x 36" Oil on Canvas, 2008 $1195.00

The paintings are finally starting to pile up! Hope I'm done in three weeks, I'm running out of time. The show opens on the 13th of July, at the Black Duck Gallery in Lunenburg, but my paintings should be finished ahead by about two weeks, so that they're actually dry when I hang them.
This one has a much-needed looseness and brightness, it was time to lighten things up a bit.

New Painting: Night Moves

Night Moves 18" x 24" Oil on Canvas, 2008 $595.00
I named it after the Bob Seger song.

New Painting: Devil's Paint Brush

Devil's Paint Brush 24" x 48" Oil on Canvas, 2008 $1395.00
This was my favorite wildflower when I was a kid. It looks a lot like a dandelion, only red and orange around the edges, and smaller. Unlike a dandelion, it was a real treasure to find one.

New Painting: Lift

A good painting day! I love this one, and though I've been told over and over that my paintings are gloom and doom, I really feel that the gloom enhances light and colour. An artist only has so much control over how their work is interpreted, but as the artist, for me the focus is on the brights, not the darks.
Lift 24" x 18" Oil on Canvas, 2008 $595.00

Collision

Collision 24" x 48" Oil on Canvas 2008 $1395.00

I like this one because I didn't go too much into it. I did a sketch in oil, and left a lot of it alone in the final painting. I think it still has its spontaneity, and it's so hard to preserve that sometimes! My pal Eric wrote a post recently about line and tone, and since reading it, I've been paying so much more attention to the character of a mark. He's so great, that guy.
I've also decided to go with my boyfriend Oliver to San Francisco right after my show opens. He has a neuroscience conference to attend, which I will NOT be going to. Hell no. I'll be visiting the Jelly Belly factory and the art galleries.

New Bridge Painting

MacDonald Bridge in Fog: Twilight
30" x 30" Oil on Canvas $1100.00

I struggled for a long time with the composition, and wiped everything off twice before settling on this. There was also more attention paid to the accuracy of the bridge. There's a lot of Prussian blue in this one, and is it just me, or does Prussian blue really stink?! You have to go through a ton of rags wiping everything off, and the studio reeks of stinky Prussian blue paint, blech!

New Painting!

Clouds Building 30" x 36" Oil on Canvas 2008 $1195.00

Robin's Eggs

When we were kids, finding a robin's egg was like finding the holy grail. They're so beautiful, the colour of the shell, the fragility, the delicate little speckles...they're just pretty! So when my sister Gillian found one on our walk the other day, you can imagine my delight! It's such a nice sign of spring. I brought it home, where Oliver was quick to point out that it was probably covered in parasites and bird turd. Sigh.

Getting Ridiculous

Storm Clearing 30" x 60" Oil on Canvas 2008 $1995.00
I swear this is the last time. It still wasn't sitting right with me, and now I'm finally happy. Dandelions will most likely resurface in a different painting, but the hues between the yellow and blue just didn't have the kind of chemistry I wanted. What an epic struggle! My drawing professor Susan Wood told me at the end of last semester, sometimes your best work comes from battling through it, and once again, she was right. This is the final result. I promise.

New Painting

Ahhh, May 1st. Feels good. Today I start painting for a solo show, "Stormy Weather," at the Black Duck Gallery in Lunenburg. The opening is July 13th, and I'll be annoying everybody and reminding you over and over again. I had to squeeze out one more Halifax painting though.
Smoke Stacks 30" x 24" Oil on Canvas 2008 $950.00