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UNTITLED - August 21, 2009 - Acrylic on Canvas

2009-08-21T17:34:00.000-07:00

Carbon Black and Cement Gray acrylics on canvas. This one was long overdue plus I needed to workout some residual mistiness from earlier in the day. I did have "paint" on my mental to-do list while on a two week hiatus from work.

UNTITLED - March 22, 2009 - Acrylic and Oil on Canvas

2009-03-28T13:56:00.000-07:00

A comeback of sorts after like seven (7) months. Cement Gray, Burnt Sienna, and Metal Brass.

UNTITLED - November 28, 2008 - Acrylic and Oil on Canvas

2008-11-29T21:18:00.000-08:00

I had this one as a to-do given the four (4) day weekend. Pewter, metallic copper, and raw umber were the most heavily used here. The panel of thirds just seemed appropriate. Black/cement grey/raw umber were used as both filler and a means for obscuring some unwanted strokes created at the very start of this endeavor.

UNTITLED - August 15, 2008 - Acrylic on Canvas

2008-08-15T12:55:00.000-07:00

Carbon Black, No. 5 Neutral Grey, Pewter, Sap Green Hue, and more of the usual obscured foul-ups.

UNTITLED - August 9, 2008 - Oil on Canvas

2008-08-09T20:43:00.000-07:00

The border is a Cadmium Red experiment that almost went awry. I cut it with some black and luckily managed to produce something that looks like sandalwood(?)

UNTITLED - August 6, 2008 - Oil on Canvas

2008-08-07T21:30:00.000-07:00

An experimentation with "watering down". Note, this is not the title.

UNTITLED - April 6, 2008 - Acryclic and Oil on Canvas

2008-04-06T16:50:00.000-07:00

My OS crashed AGAIN today and corrupted my hard drive's main partition. Everything had to be reinstalled AND the taxes had to be re-done. Fortunately, Turbo-tax let's you re-download purchases that are less than 72 hours old. Anyway, the day's aggravation is depicted in this one but "What else is new?"

UNTITLED - April 6, 2008 - Acryclic and Oil on Canvas

2008-04-06T02:22:00.000-07:00

Simply put, I just pictured a crudely executed few four (4) sided enclosures with black and red oxide and either copper or gold. Five days since my last piece means this was relatively quick work.

UNTITLED - April 1, 2008 - Acryclic and Oil on Canvas

2008-04-01T19:41:00.000-07:00

My first go-round with oil based paints and a bit more structure = a new respect for straight lines. Thanks to brother for the new batch of painting supplies.

UNTITLED - December 16, 2007 - Acrylic on Canvas

2007-12-16T21:11:00.001-08:00

A relatively painless experiment this go around. Gold and Cadmium Red are the primary colours here. A spritz was applied to the top quarter first before the red was applied. This made vertical runnings a lot heavier, bolder. Once dry a spritz was applied to the remaining 3/4 and the gold was applied. The gold dried and then another layer of spritz and cadmium red was applied.

UNTITLED - December 8, 2007 - Acrylic on Canvas

2007-12-11T23:31:00.000-08:00

Originally this piece was several inches wider on each side. Both wings appeared to be margins containing random multi-coloured geometric shapes. Those aspects had to be removed near the completion of the piece due to an irreparable error in one of the shapes. Red Oxide and Raw Umber were used to create vertical one inch borders to obscure the wings that were cut away.

UNTITLED - April 18, 2007 - Acrylic on Canvas

2007-04-22T20:28:00.000-07:00

This was recently shown at a mock-exhibit during a company event. While the piece wasn't actually completed for the showing, I figured it was about time to start using the supplies purchased 2-3 weeks prior.

UNTITLED - November 2006 - Acrylic on Canvas

2006-11-22T21:03:00.000-08:00

Accidentally shown along with the April 18 piece. I registered online for the exhibit but got errors during the submission process. I registered again and later learned that the exhibit coordinators actually received the first submission so as far as they were concerned I was showing a pair of works.

Frankly, the thick grey sections are what saved this mess. I was trying to do "something" that involved mixing black and dark umber---notice the left top to bottom and the bottom left to right--- that went awry. The grey was a bright idea I got on the way home from work just moments before being secretly annoyed at having to throw out 4' X 4' worth of canvas.