Archive for June, 2010
Cloud #34
Cloud #34 16″x 16″ Oil on Beechwood, 2010
I skipped a cloud: I’d planned on posting these sequentially, but sometimes they need some extra TLC before they’re ready to show themselves. Cloud #34 has a peculiar sense of space. It has interesting boundaries and edges, some that flow into one another, making it difficult to tell what recedes and what comes forward. And, I’ve finally been able to let go of the ground and get rid of the landscape format that anchored all the paintings from last year. It’s liberating: the compositions have become much more free and have opportunities for invention and areas of abstraction that have reinvigorated my love of clouds. More to come…
Cloud #32
Cloud #32 16″ x 12″ Oil on Beechwood, 2010
It’s been difficult to photograph these works. It seems no matter how great the camera I buy, I still have to take about 300 pictures of each painting and tweak it in photoshop before it even comes close to resembling the original. Sigh. Nova Scotia is positively dreary right now: cold, wet, and slimy, with lots of slugs on the sidewalks squished by bicycles, and big worms who will probably suffer the same fate. I’m always overcome by an urge to rescue those stupid worms. Why do they go on the sidewalks? Those fools!
Last year, I think in July, it rained in Halifax and was cloudy every day for almost 5 weeks. A permanent fog settled over the city, it was freezing, and the longer it stayed, the more people looked up at the sky wondering when it was going to lift. It more or less ruined summer for a lot of people, and to make up for it, we had a disgusting heat wave in August that left everyone incapacitated. Let’s hope we don’t get a repeat.
Cloud #31
Cloud #31 16″ x 12″ Oil on Beechwood, 2010 
It’s been a while since my last post because I’ve been working like mad since school ended. I have two shows to prepare for this summer, I will write more about those later, and for now I’ll say I’m super excited about both of them…more to come soon!
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