This was not the point.

Polaroid.
3″x3″

I just want it to look real.

 

I just want it to look real.
3″ x 3″

Mixed media on Mylar

2014

Gold, Glaze, and Geometry.

I’ve been making the transition to being studio-less. This means I have to find mediums that don’t require me to spill chemicals all over myself. So far so good.

 

 

These works are small mixed media on Mylar and rag paper. 3″ x 3″

 

When life gives you lemons, paint that shit gold.

What can I say. I gold leafed everything. Remember how Alexander Calder said that whole “when in doubt paint it red.” thing? That’s me and gold. Once I figured out how to get it on objects rather then just in my hair, I became obsessed with putting it on everything. Can’t stop, won’t stop.

Step Three of Three.

When is a tryptic done? Is it when you’ve looked at the same image for so long that you want to destroy it? Because then this is done.

Here’s a large image of the final panel.

Turns out gold leaf doesn’t photograph so well. (Someday my friends, I will figure out the trick to getting an accurate photo of gold.) But that is what the final peach is made of.

Step Two of Three.

Step two of making a tryptic – make the second panel.

Solid gold baby.

Look who got their hands on some gold leaf….

Step One of Three.

Step one of making a triptych: make the middle panel.

Sometimes things have to get weird before they get good.

This is Helen (an almost finished work), Photobombing Helen (a very early stages work). This is also my favourite picture today.

Cutting the Grass

I spent most of the summer in deep denial about not going back to school. As a result I pretty much avoided painting at all costs. While working at the Anna, one of the visiting artists said to me, “Sometimes painting isn’t the right thing to do. Sometimes you have to let the grass grow.”

So I ran with that excuse for quite some time.

So now that the grass is fully grown, I’m back at it. I’ve got a new little studio in the Roy building on Barrington. I’ve just started to feel at home there, but in true Halifax style signs were put up last week. “EXECUTIVE SUITE CONDOS! BOOK YOURS TODAY!”

And so the search for a new studio begins again. Oh Halifax.

Photos of new work soon!