New Show

New work hanging in the Rouge exhibition space at the Eastern Edge Gallery St. John's.  This was a one year project of collected photo's out of the local paper here in St. John's, the Telegram.  The photo's were specifically of people in handcuffs, being arrested and escorted into the court room or a police car, or jail.   The result was a 24 foot by 24 inch collage.    That collage is coupled up with a work by Meagan O'Shea, a quilt sewn by people whose lives have become entwined through crime.   A story about Restorative Justice. 

Opening reception Saturday March 2, 12-4pm. 

Our questions for this show......

 What do you need when you have been harmed?
What do you need  from others when you have caused harmed?

In the news today.  Video games to be considered art.

Pong used to be my favorite. Just putting the finishing touches on this one today.

Distracted by painting again. 

It seems to be in the nature of working in the studio to say we will work on one project and get side tracked by several.  In this photo there is evidence of me doing all kinds of things except for the large screen printing project I really want to work on.    There is the obvious water colour stuff I am doing for my water colour students, some wrapping for a painting sent out today via Canada Post, and then the less obvious stuff of working on my chain saw to cut wood to heat the studio, tools for changing the headlights in my truck, a piece of melted lead on aluminum that needed to be masked off so I could coat the aluminum with a gloss finish.....  Can you find Waldo, he's not there but why not look anyway maybe I missed him. 

The postive for the next piece.  The broom in the picture served as the brush to make these large brush strokes.  One of these will be transfered for the back drop of the large serigraph print I am working on.  

It has been a while but I am back at it with the water pieces.  This is the beginning stages.  I used to have a boss that didn't think you worked unless you were physically dirty.   I must be covered with invisible computer radion dirt because this process always takes longer than it seems and it sure feels like work.

While it does not look like it, a lot of my work is influenced by modernist tendencies. I love the look of a screen printed brush stroke on a piece of plastic so I thought I would make a few and leave it at that. Printed brush stokes.

Cut my plastic, sanded it all down, now I am washing it.  All for the sake of a brush stroke print.

Trying out some new brush strokes.  We will see where this leads to.  For now it is a break/distraction from the current body of work. 

Okay, finally finished this piece.  One good one, two artist proofs.  An artist proof is often more interesting. 

Just about finished.  Just need to clean it up.  Finished this morning. 

Not all days are good, so this is all I am posting for now.  I just have to work it out. 

Printing green. 

I love the idea of printing a brush stroke.  Is that what deconstructing is? 

Masking off the screen.  Getting ready to print. 

Painting my "Positives" on the plastic  sheets.  Hmmm. maybe we should regularly paint our postives, life might look a lot better that way.

Paiting the studio red today.  Next piece in the series.  Each of these is 40" X 60"

Thought I would post the finished image from a couple of weeks ago, guess I got carried away with a few other things.  45"X 41"  He is gliding through the water.

Digital camera's are great but they don't handle "white" very well.  Both of these are close ups of the underlayer for my next piece.  Both are pure white, but this is how they come out.  Got to love it. 

Side tracked and left with a mess for now. 

"There are two ways to get enough.
One is to continue to accumulate more and more.  
The other is to desire less."
G.K. Chesterton