Gallery Additions Showcase Texture

Ten new highly textured pieces from January 2010 were added to the TEXTURE gallery

Continuation 24 x 36 Textured Acrylic Painting by Sandy McMullen

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Shades of Grey in Abstract Painting

Vibrant colour is exciting, sometimes overwhelming and occasionally hard to live with. Grey on the other hand can be calming and may be easy on the eye. The trick is to add interest with texture, shape, line and variation of these elements.

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Recent Paintings “All Dressed Up Ready to Paint the Town”

Six highly textured abstract paintings in acrylic are ready for the finishing touches. Once the pieces have the edges painted, are varnished, have hardware added and photographed: they will be titled and priced.

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Three Stages of an Abstract Painting

January 15, 2010

Sometimes as an artist you simply get too close to your work to see it objectively. Of course this could simply be what happens to me. This video shows two paintings: one is a painting that I was going to put white gesso all over in order to start again. Several people gasped a resounding [...]

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Textured Non-Objective Painting Numero UNO

January 11, 2010

This video is a continuation of a previous one that shows the process used to add texture to a painting. I have shown the first finished abstract piece of eight paintings in my January painting schedule. This particular painting will need to have the edges painted, have the surface protected by a couple of layers [...]

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Texture – Putting in the Foundational Bones in a Painting

January 4, 2010

My plan for January is to complete 6 to 8 paintings before the 26th of this month. That includes having them varnished and photographed. This whirl of activity was inspired by an email from Michael Deyell of Covent Garden Gallery a week past. I will also be doing one of the Insight Portraits that capture [...]

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Feedback and New Direction for 2010

January 2, 2010

Covent Garden Gallery in Ontario’s beautiful Prince Edward County has shown my work for a few years. My RedEye Gallery partners Jennifer Hinrichs and Michael Steinhauser first met Covent Gallery owner Michael and we enjoyed two years of reciprocal cross- promotion between our galleries. Micheal is a networker extraordinaire and he keeps his finger on [...]

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Submission for an Art Show Called “The Last Taboo”

December 30, 2009

Moses Znaimer is a bit of a legend in Toronto. Always on the cutting edge Moses brought the unique style of CITY TV to life and is now going after the “Boomer” market or as he calls it “Zoomer.” At the end of October there is the ZoomerShow – a Lifestyle Expo and Consumer Show [...]

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A Personal Aesthetic Contributes to Good Work

December 30, 2009

Not everyone has a need or desire for beauty, but beauty has inspired the best in what’s human since before recorded time. If art is soul work – beauty feeds my soul. In these last few days the winds and changing light of September have contributed to full and rich days of painting.

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Art Fairs – Not Just Entertainment

December 30, 2009

Art Fairs and Art Tours proliferate in central Ontario and some artists travel from show to show. The upside for the artist is in getting to talk to a lot of people both the public and other artists. The downside is the amount of work involved for a very uncertain result. At the Art Fair [...]

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