Sunday, December 5, 2010

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Creating New Humans

Janice Coveye
Ink on Paper
7.5 x 11 inch
Nov 17/10
Orace Pembeley
Ink on Paper
7.5 x 11 inch
Nov 17/10



Sunday, November 7, 2010

In Black and White

Elaine
Ink on Paper
7 x 5.5 inch
Oct 19/10

Hamilton Harbour
Ink on Paper
9.5 x 5 inch
Oct 21/10


Holland
Ink on Paper
5 x 2.5 inch
Oct 21/10



The King of England.
Ink on Paper
9 x 5 inch
Oct 22/10
After a four month break from any organized form of expression, here were are back again in black and white.











Saturday, June 12, 2010

Stories on Faces

Third Lifetime
Oil on Canvas
14 x 18
June 3/10

The Signal

Sister
Oil on Canvas
8 x 10 inch
June 11/10
Brother
Oil on Canvas
8 x 10 inch
June 10/10

Gathered inspiration from "The Signal" on CBC Radio 2, weeknights from 10 - 12PM. Excellent program, I recommend it to anyone who finds themselves bored by 'regular' music.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

What are we made of?

Norm
Oil on Panel
7 x 9 inch
June 2, 2010


Longfellow
Oil on Panel
7 x 9 inch
April 19, 2010


Parisian Man
Oil on Panel
7 x 9 inch
May 28, 2010
More of these on the way...


Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The Latest Problem

Unravel
Charcoal on Paper
24 x 48 inch (7 Panels)
April 8, 2010







Advanced Drawing (A312), first art show.
Aritst's Statement:

In the development of this series, I have found myself riding ripples made from last terms project. In the Wingspan Project (see below), I was exploring dehumanization through means of systematic human functions, social structures (including education, corporation, religion, etc.) and their sub-structures. I am trying to understand what it means to be fundamentally human and what it means to have that humanness challenged, broken, or destroyed by certain things.

Here, I am exploring the challenges of being broken by truth. Truth in the end will set you free; however this freedom does not come with out challenge. The concept of receiving truth is often romanticized and the battles, that tend to involve a degree of violence, are forgotten. This sequence had been created to explore the journey out of spiteful ignorance and the appearance of having it all together to a state of such painful and sore vulnerability. The struggles of giving up control, focing and accepting truth, and being touched by truth are seen in all of its painful nature that goes with the age old saying; truth hurts.

The figure firstly presents a strong frong, all neatly tied up and packed perfectly. However, as truth begins to break her down, she starts to loose hope. She reaches the breaking point where we are unsure if she is willing to let it all fall out and begin again, or if she is trying to hold it together. By the end of the sequence, she has become unravelled and we are pulled into her head, into her life, and her anonymous set of experiences to see how truth touches the insides of her soul and body. We see a reflection of what, or who is touching her and consequently that image is reflected back into the world as part of her own expression.

While executing this series, I have held a particular piece of music close to the heart of this project. The song is called "Icicles/Bicycles" and is written and performed by Bell Orchestre.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9e9CP4fPtI

Saturday, May 1, 2010

And if that Mockingbird won't sing...

Atticus
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
11 x 11 inch
April 30, 2010
The wing is cut off, the scanner wasn't large enough. I'll have to use a camera. But until then...
Catherine Hordyk

A212 Figure Drawing

Wingspan
Chalk Pastel on Paper
30 x 11 inch
December 18, 2009
Dr. Stephen Sagar

Monday, April 26, 2010

Maybe

Maybe Violinse
Oil on Cavass
12 x 12 inch
February 15, 2010 The relationships between the music and the musician. Maybe its a human, maybe its an instrument, maybe both.
Ruth Anne Baldry

More Birds, Broken Drums

Cardinal
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
4 x 7 inch
April 19, 2010

Chickadee
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
4 x 7 inch
April 19, 2010

Pigeon
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
4 x 7 inch
April 23, 2010





Two Cedar Waxwings
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
4 x 7 inch
April 23, 2010



More Trees

Wind Chimes
Oil on Canvass
12 x 12 inch
February 3, 2010

Another forty-five minutes

Forest
Oil on Canvass
18 x 24 inch
January 27, 2010

Forty-five minute frustration

Tree
Oil on Canvass
14 x 18 inch
January 27, 2010

We Will Become Silhouettes

Relephant
Oil on Panel
17.5 x 7 inch
February 3, 2010

Owl

Owl
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
16 x 16 inch
June 16, 2009 Mom and Dad

Go Do

Chikadee
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
12 x 12 inch
March 25, 2009
Esther Cubitt

Sunday, April 25, 2010

We Own the Sky

Barnswallow
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
7 x 15 inch
June 14, 2009

Danger

Danger
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
4 x 7 inch
January 5, 2010
Stephany Mercado

And now something slightly different

A Good Dream
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
4 x 6 inch
June 6, 2009
A Good Dream:
JUNE 8/09

You and I were in a bright house. It was old, with many large windows that were letting in pure and warm sunlight. The house was filled with old couches and chairs and friends. Good souls were sitting everywhere, on floors, seats, tables, chatting about everything. We moved from room to room together through many doors. There was a cleanly made bed upstairs that we woke up from, the sheets were white and there was two end tables on either side. On the end tables there were things like old lamps, wristwatches and other small jewelry and a clock, but I didn't look at the time. There was one room that had a lot of treasures in it that we didn't want to get rid of and we were telling stories about some of the things. The world was just revolving right, the atmosphere was clear and love, community, friendship, and warmth was everywhere.


Self Portrait in Four

Self Portrait
Oil on Cavass
16 x 16 inch (four 8 x 8 inch cavasses)
April 18, 2009


I still to this day have no idea as to why I did this on four panels.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Jennifer Jane

Jennifer Jane
Oil on Canvass
24 x 18 inch
June 8, 2009
Danielle VanHolst

Begin

Self Portrait
Oil on Canvass
12 x 12 inch
July 6, 2009