A last post-vacation painting!

This last painting depicts my last impression of Cambodia...

... and provides another opportunity to test ground on more conventional subjects and rendition.

Web site update...

 Recent painting update in my web site (click the image):

A wrestling match with acrylic inks on a bed sheet : "Khmer underworld"...

In the latter part of this week, I made a second attempt at acrylic inks using a bed sheet as support...

 

May be I should go to to Fabricville to get some more bed sheet fabric! ;-)

A break from my usual painting... varnishing a couple of apsara paintings...

Since my return from my three-week trip in Vietnam and Cambodia, I've spent of few weeks focusing on apsara dancers from Angkor Wat...makes me think of Rodin who had been mesmerized by Kmer dancers when they showed up in France circa1906 in the context of colonial exhibitions. I varnished a few works as an experiment...

I feel the need to do more traditional stuff from time to time, but part of me wants to go back to more visceral stuff...

Close to 3 weeks in Vietnam and Cambodia...

The period from late November to mid December was spent on a cruise ship on the Mekong river and visiting key cities in Vietnam and cambodia. The Buddhist imagery in Cambodia especially agreed with me, Here in front of the Bayon temple in Angkor Thom...

There will be an impact on my art definitely...

Waterworld - Tiki gods... going tribal!

This week, after having seen an impressive work from Kahlhamer at the Montreal museum of fine arts (Once upon a time, the western), I decided to dig up an old bed sheet and proceed with acrylic inks...

I need to bone up on application tools, but the results were good enough to pursue a stream of this type of work.

Note to self: I realize that preceding works were just meant to test ground on the level I have attained so far in figuration with traditional methods. My heart is on the side of visceral contemporary art...

Duck-diving with Kauhuhu in Molokai... a painting that may open another door!

Over the last few weeks, I have worked on another painting to add to my waterworld collection...

Although this painting does not totally meet my expectations, reflections from its surface remind me that the partly deconstructed figure is really where I want to go. At the same time, incorporating line drawings in my figuration is becoming an obsession.