Canvas Paintings (2019)

Lucid Dreams Series

Oil on Canvas

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Brushwash Mire

Welcome to Brushwash Mire, a place of reprieve from the heat of creative depletion.

(16.5″ x 13″ Gouache Paint, Oil Pastel, Beeswax, and Oil Paint on Canvas)

So I was looking at the little jar that I use to hold my pens, formerly for holding brush water, and noticed that the random paint patterns made a little painting in itself. I tried to translate this scene to canvas, a bustling marsh or mire amidst the sweltering heat.

What started as an attempt to add texture by dripping the wax turned into coating the whole canvas in the shimmering, crackling substance. Never before had I cooked a canvas over the stove top. The mixture of the paint and wax formed some ghastly textures that enhance the atmospheric blaze that almost set my kitchen on fire.

Conduits

“Conduits” is an interpretation of the idea that we don’t generate our ideas but are simply receivers or conduits for a ethereal consciousness. And with these abstract wisps of inspiration that stream over us, we latch on to that which we can in hopes it will lead us to a grand tomorrow.

Piedmont Park

The first of 3 commissioned paintings that wrapped up my year. I went with a vibrant pallet to cover one of my favorite spots in Atlanta. I love crossing the bridge into Piedmont Park, I feel like I’m being spirited away. To see the towers on the horizon dwarfed by the trees is a surreal sight.
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With this oil painting, I implemented some new techniques I learned from @charlie_beggs , mixing marble dust and wax to create thick, desaturated textures and contrasting them with some fluid oiled down areas. I feel like my art station has turned to a chemistry lab.

REFRACTION

Something like a light shining through a diamond.
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The 2nd of the 3 year end commissions.

“I see happiness, I see joy.”
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For sure the largest, yet most fun painting of my career. Thank you for helping me push my boundaries 😁

Lakeside

And the for the final commission, Lakeside. Based on a picture taken by and commissioned by @lorimelcher
I focused primarily on a texture balance to simulate a realistic depth of field and I had a lot of fun playing with the trees as always.

Thanks to Mordecai Lecky, @muhmmorty for the photography

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