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Category: Part 4

Assignment 4: All That’s Solid Melts into Air

Posted on 2023-03-122023-10-17

Across two panels, buildings are drawn against a shifting sky. Yellow light hits the buildings from the sun at the horizon. Light blues and purples imply dawn. This dawn, and…

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Project: Painting Outside

Posted on 2023-03-042023-04-17

Table of Contents Reflection Research: Golden Ratio This exercise is captured in another post, here: Research: Golden Ratio Painting a Landscape Outdoors It is winter, here in Canada, and that…

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Project: Working from Drawings and Photographs

Posted on 2023-02-192023-10-17

Table of Contents Reflection Research: Golden Ratio You’ll find my notes on Golden Ratio here: here Painting from Working Drawings, Squaring Up Acrylic Sketch Another Pass Despite this piece being…

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Research: Golden Ratio

Posted on 2023-02-122024-02-04

When you google the Golden Ratio you may end up with a plethora of rather unhelpful mathematics: The number (approximately) 1.618, the formula a+b/a=a/b, the fibonacci sequence,etc.. You may also…

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Project: Expressive Landscape

Posted on 2023-01-292023-02-16

Table of Contents Reflection Research: Surrealists, Expressionists and Landscape Please see post here: Landscapes: Beyond the natural Exercise: Creating Mood and Atmosphere We’re in the depths of winter, here, and…

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Landscapes: Beyond the natural

Posted on 2023-01-292023-03-12

Surrealists Symbolists “Rather than sharing a single artistic style, they were unified by a shared pessimism and weariness of the decadence they perceived in modern society. The Symbolists sought escape…

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Projects: From inside looking outside, Perspective

Posted on 2023-01-292023-03-04

Note I decided to combine my efforts across Project 1 and 2, due to the selection of subject matter. It seemed to make more sense to me this way. Reflection…

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Exhibition: Denyse Thomasos, “Just Beyond”

Posted on 2023-01-222023-01-22

The first impression of the AGO’s career retrospective of Denyse Thomasos, “Just Beyond“, is that of the incredible size of her works. Meters tall, and wide, the works that welcome…

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