Showing posts with label reference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reference. Show all posts
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Light Through Leaves
Two drawings in preparation for an installation I'm working on. Through several of my paintings, I explored the physicality of light. As we're all accustom to, light travels quite well through negative space. I'm looking to play around with this pretty fundamental idea. In my paintings, this materialized in pieces such as Ranger and Hung Line. Recently, I've been hoping to work on a sculptural piece that transforms the forms of light in negative space into positive space.
There are a couple projects on my plate right now, so I might not get a chance to start on this for a while, but here are those preliminary sketches:
There are a couple projects on my plate right now, so I might not get a chance to start on this for a while, but here are those preliminary sketches:
Monday, October 3, 2011
subterranean life
Sketches of work horses and canaries for some forthcoming work.
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Enjoy
Click on image for a detailed version.
Enjoy
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Japanese Miners of British Columbia
Here's a digital sketch I drew up of a painting I'll get to when I get some serious time back in my studio in Montreal. I'll be going on a two week bicycle trip to Boston in the next couple days.
The original photographic reference depicts Japanese miners in front of the tunnel of the Ikeda Bay Mine on Moresby Island. The photo is estimated to have been taken in the vicinity of 1915. Courtesy of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.
I'll post some photographs when I get to work on the painting...
...until then, enjoy:
The original photographic reference depicts Japanese miners in front of the tunnel of the Ikeda Bay Mine on Moresby Island. The photo is estimated to have been taken in the vicinity of 1915. Courtesy of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.
I'll post some photographs when I get to work on the painting...
...until then, enjoy:
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Some New Paintings!!
A couple of months ago I was picking my way through S. W. Welch when I found this weird little book called Disaster Canada by Janet Looker. It is a documentation of disastrous events throughout Canada organized into chapters by such elemental themes as FIRE, ICE and EARTH.
There are some wild stories of shipwrecks, tornadoes, sealing disasters (which was great reading prior to the David Blackwood exhibit at the AGO in Toronto) and "greatest hits" compilation of major fires.
It was the photographs of the mining collapses and avalanches that really got me sparked. There is a role in the recovery of trapped miners referred to as Drägermen. These are the miners who were lucky enough not to be trapped in a collapse who must travel back down the shaft to dig out their fellow miners. The title is derived from the German inventor Alex Dräger who developed the breathing apparatuses the men wore when working underground.
There is a series of photographs of such rescue workers returning from collapsed mine shafts. Even with the archaic photography is possible to discern the exhaustion and strain on their faces as they spend hour after hour moving earth, rock and corpses.
In the event of a collapse a century ago, those in proximity of the epicenter are exclusively considered a lost cause. The serious concern is the collapsed material that then separates the surviving miners from exit shaft. Before advanced prospecting and mineral estimation technology, mining was an act of digging through the earth in the search of a mineral vein. The beautiful mythology of the Drägermen becomes then of miners who must employ the same techniques to search for a very different vein. Often alone under the earth, excavating for isolated pockets of life.
Below are two portraits, and their respective details, of Drägermen taken from collapses in Quebec and British Columbia.
There are some wild stories of shipwrecks, tornadoes, sealing disasters (which was great reading prior to the David Blackwood exhibit at the AGO in Toronto) and "greatest hits" compilation of major fires.
It was the photographs of the mining collapses and avalanches that really got me sparked. There is a role in the recovery of trapped miners referred to as Drägermen. These are the miners who were lucky enough not to be trapped in a collapse who must travel back down the shaft to dig out their fellow miners. The title is derived from the German inventor Alex Dräger who developed the breathing apparatuses the men wore when working underground.There is a series of photographs of such rescue workers returning from collapsed mine shafts. Even with the archaic photography is possible to discern the exhaustion and strain on their faces as they spend hour after hour moving earth, rock and corpses.
In the event of a collapse a century ago, those in proximity of the epicenter are exclusively considered a lost cause. The serious concern is the collapsed material that then separates the surviving miners from exit shaft. Before advanced prospecting and mineral estimation technology, mining was an act of digging through the earth in the search of a mineral vein. The beautiful mythology of the Drägermen becomes then of miners who must employ the same techniques to search for a very different vein. Often alone under the earth, excavating for isolated pockets of life.
Below are two portraits, and their respective details, of Drägermen taken from collapses in Quebec and British Columbia.
Drägerman 1
oil on paper
12 x 13
oil on paper
12 x 13
Drägerman 2
oil on paper
12 x 13
oil on paper
12 x 13
Thursday, December 24, 2009
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