“Tube painting?” some guy yelled at me from about 30 feet away at my first exhibition in a large indoor art show in downtown Toronto back in about 2002. I was puzzled by what he was asking. I am an oil painter and I don’t make my own paint. I buy it in tubes….in the largest tubes I can get. But I think most oil painters buy their paint in tubes… after all it changed an artist’s ablilty to easily…
making art In pursuit of my authentic self as an artist I needed to find out how I move naturally. Through a process of learning to make art I took the time to observe how I like to physically make art both for myself and in comparison with other artists. I describe this simply as follows: Some people like to draw or paint 🖌 Just using their fingers to move their tools 🖌using their wrists as well 🖌moving their forearms…
WOW!!!!!!! So excited to exhibit at the Artist Project in late February at the Better Living Centre at Exhibition Place in Toronto. This is my first time to show in a large Toronto venue in a dozen years. A few months ago my fellow resident artist at Loft Gallery in Thornbury, Lorne McDermott, and I went off to Killarney for the autumn colours and the outdoor experience. Important News! New Killarney paintings for the Artist Project! I am thrilled with…
Welcome! Today is about texture… the rough surface of my paint on my canvas. The “why” I do it. I didn’t start out painting texture but came to it naturally as a way of applying paint when I was taught by Greg Damery at OCAD to paint without using thinners, additives and chemicals to clean brushes. I took his healthy advice to heart and found that I could either rub the oil paint into the canvas for thin layers, or…