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acrylic on canvas 12" x 18"part of the body of work that is slated to make it into art guise gallery this summer
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dig this set, a strange amalgam of thoughts and styles ..hows it that something can be playful and apocalyptic at the same time..
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hahaahah i dunno man, just happens sometimes, glad you like it.
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there's something about this piece exactly that grabs me. I like it. I like the addition of hte white outline to your clouds too - really lifts them off the canvas.
There's also something about the texture of your clouds that reminds me of something from one of my fave animated films. I should figure that out for you - it's sweet tho.
Congrats on the Artguise - are you getting your own show? I've never checked out that gallery, I should go find it.
If you're Graham, then I think I met you at Austin's a few weeks ago. Hallo!
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thanks alot, yeah i like using outlines to pull certain things out, i'm talking to the owners at artguise about what exactly will happen with the show, not sure about all the details yet.
you should check them out though.. theres an opening soon (maybe friday the 5th)
yep thats me, i think i may have met you at canterbury once befoe actually.
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Yaaa, I just found their webpage. But I'm getting my wisdom teeth out on the 4th so I'm guessing I'll be knocked out all of Friday the 5th. I'm kinda pissed about that. I do want to check Artguise out tho - I just noticed that Martin Wittfooth shows there, and that's too sweet.
Did I meet you at Canterbury? Haha, that's crazy. I know used to go there a lot to check out Austin's theatre stuff, and I think I hung out in the library once...
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ah shitty deal, well theyre always open though arts up for a month. yeah marty had his first full on show with them in september with cameron tomsett ( the artist who did the cd covers for the new tragicly hip album) how do you know martin?
yeah you seemed farmilliar when i met you at autins and i remember meating some of austins friends from outside of school at canterbury
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Ah that's sweet. Ya that was definitly me then - I think I can remember you too.
I don't know Martin Whitfooth actually - just his art. His website's wicked - so well done. You actually know him?!?!
With Cameron Tomsett eh? I thought I remembered seeing that it was a double show - I wonder how their work looked together. Their styles are so different.
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ah yeah, i never saw his website untill after i met him, lifedrawing sessions at sandy hill CC... i for get how we started talking though.
hes a nice guy
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ahhh that's really really sweet. It's really nice to hear that even artists as amazing as him still go in for the lifedrawing refresher.
I haven't done any lifedrawing this semester and I can really feel it. I didn't even realize it last semester but lifedrawing at least once a week really keeps your hand warm.
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well i guess thats how he keeps drawing well.
true.. i havnt been in a while and i'm getting slack.
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ya same here - it takes me twice as long to get out something that i like nowadays. I'm looking forward to taking a drawing course again next year. I kinda hate them while i'm taking them though - i'm not a huge fan of charcoal
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yep.. i find i have a hard time working out poses in my mind too.. even if i end up changing them from the way the model posed.. i find i can notice little things that make the drawing look better.
if you dont like charcoal try using conte, if you havn't already. you can have a hard line like a pencil or a soft brushlike stroke like with charcoal
or just use a pencil on it's side.. thats what i do.
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ya, my eye is way more sharp when I draw consistently.
Ya, I'm working on dabbling in conte. i think my main problem with charcoal is that i have a habit of getting it all over my face, so it's really just me being a giant dumbass diva. But I prefer a bit of precision - I just got myself some contes and I'm planning on using those more next year.
But I am a big fan of the pencil.
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hahah, nice talking to you.
sry didn't get to talk to you more at austin's! have a good summer!
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wonderful stuff as usual... are those buttcheeks...
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thanks, buttcheeks? noooo, not this time hahahah sorry to dissapoint you hahha
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I really love your work!!
I can have all your pictures in my house!!
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you can, can you? well i think i might have something to say about that... hahahaha im flattered thank you
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for some reason this one captures me a lot more then some of the others... i think it might be that ambigous patch of brown at the bottom. Gives it a open ended possibility, perhaps thats a mountain behind clouds or something you know? Theres allways been ambiguity in these works but this one just seems a lot more.. crafted. Its hard to put my finger on but none the less, love it mate
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HAH! thats funny that you said that. i was painting over another peicethat i was unhappy with .. as i reache the end of washing over i thought id leave this patch just cause it looked cool.
hahaha.
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how long does a painting like this take you? how much do they sell for?
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this one took abiut 3 hours.. it was a smaller one. i'm actually working on a new way to price my work. i'll be working with the gallery owners on prices for the overall show to make sure all the pieces aren't all over the map. the price is going to reflect the size and compare to the other pieces.
soooo, long story short.. id say 275$(canadian) off the top of my head... but it may be different once i price all of them
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i hope that you make oodles so that one day youll be able to become one of those elusive self suffcient money making artists. oh and yeh i totally think that you would fit in a juxtapoz magazine!
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so do i, thatd be great.. but hardly a likely possiility.. its a very rare occasion when folks get that kind of success.
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it'll be in the summer some time. july of august... not sure yet
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i really like ur stuff.
the warm colors, the cartoontouch.
very reduced, but so much athmosphere in it.
i bet ur work looks even more impressive in reallity.
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thanks alot. i appreciate it.. its hard to get the same feel from paintings in a photo.. but i try to play up the colours a bit to compensate
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