"Color my world" - close to final...Exploring mark making on pure figuration...

After some fine tuning, my last painting is finally ready for final steps...

We'll see how this one comes out in the end...

Last week at the Eastern Township studio... Some unfinished business... and some new one!

Last week, I spent three days in the larger Eastern Townships studio...

The larger space is conducive to creativity on a large scale! I still don't know which direction I will take with the one on the right...

Setting the stage for deconstructed bodies...

It's been my intention to tackle the body more often in the near future...

Question is: how can I transition from deconstructed faces to deconstructed bodies...without losing face!

The discipline of live model drawing...

I still attend live model drawing classes on a weekly basis these days...

 

There seems to be more freedom creeping up in my recent drawings! I need to drag some of that into my paintings...

Last deconstruction experiment - final... Zeroing in on a painting strategy!

I leveraged the power of a few fellow artists to refine my painting strategy with this new angle...

 Not losing the facial structure was key... I will call this series "cage",  cage of flesh being the concept in mind...

Note to self: "What about bodies?"

Update: The wording "coming out" seems more dynamic than "cage". I think I will go with that...

Fishing for a new series - step II... a bit of improvisation!

Yesterday, I implemented a first step towards getting back to home studio painting...

... I applied a second coat of paint to my last painting in the making (started two weeks ago in a group painting session), not exactly knowing where this would lead me. I have a specific idea in mind for a new series, and next steps will determine if I can pursue or not in that vein...

Back to painting after 7 weeks of renovation work around the house....

It's been difficult to maintain my usual painting schedule this winter, and the dumpster attests to that...

With regard to painting, today I decided to go fishing for a new series...

... so this is the foundation for a new type of deconstruction that I want to introduce in my future works. For now, everything is quite experimental...