Alter Ego

 Rodan Attack - July 2012 - acrylic on illustration board - 15 x 20 inches

The summer always brings out the Godzilla in me.  I am sure this has to do with the memories of watching late-night Godzilla movies in my youth.

These two different paintings have two very similar Godzilla poses. These are two new works done a couple weeks apart and I plan on doing a third with using a similar pose. But why bother you ask? Well, yes there are other poses at my disposal, so I wonder too why I spend time doing similar work and the simple answer is that the original idea was not done yet. What I mean is that when I come up with a painting idea, have an image in my head of how I want it to look, but when I actually start to paint the work, it takes a left turn right from the first brush stroke and I realize right away that this painting is going to end up being a very different work than I intended. Which I think is great because I have something in front of me that I have never seen before and it's quite exciting. It is also a challenge though because you are confronted with color or design problems that you have not worked out previously in your mind or on paper, through your previous work or even through other peoples previous work that you may have been looking at or influenced by and they already figured out some of the problems.

Sometimes it has taken me three tries to finally get my original vision onto canvas. But then I end up with three different new works where otherwise I would only have one. So, I am going to try one more time for my original concept of this Godzilla pose which I think I will do on the computer in Adobe illustrator sometime.

Alter Ego Godzilla - July 2012 - acrylic on illustration board - 15 x 20 inches

some guy some guy

Punk rock gig poster for a smashing veteran band from the States coming to Winnipeg. The figure is from a little plastic toy figure that I photographed.

Below is a  copy of the poster I recently rescued from a pole. It was all hacked to sh_t and was dangling by a piece of tape. It was the only one I had actually seen up and I thought that nobody else was really going to be seeing it, considering it's condition, so I rescued it.

While watching the movie Monster Zero I did a quick sketch of one of the aliens. I liked it enough that on my Godzilla Weekend (see Smashmonster blog) I created a fuller illustration of the X-Seijin alien. (above)

I wanted to submit the drawing to a Godzilla fan magazine but I thought I should see if my reproduc-tion was close enough to how they were portrayed in the movie. Yeah, it was close enough but really, just by going with my sketch, it was quite a bit different, so I did another version. The first one is in fact more alien like, but the bottom one is more like the movie. It's interesting to work from loose sketches of something you saw and to work from your memory as they create more original work. That is if your not worried about their outcome.

Recycler

 Recycler Meltdown

Mondrian 2020 Gallery

Parallelogram

11" x 17"  B&W poster design for Negative Space gig in Winnipeg. All vector hand-drawn lettering except for Banana Split font for Eat Em Up Presents.

Metamorphisson

Illusionary Territory Tutorial

Reality meets fantasy in this picture created for a virtual office wall. I have always loved abstract art as well as aboriginal art. This happens to be a nice fusion of the two. It's also a nice challenge to take such a generally non expressionistic medium such as a vector graphics program to create a realistic rendering of expressionistic piece.

 

Hemispheres

I like to exercise both sides of my brain. The rational and the abstract. The tidy and the messy. I am the worker and the dreamer. Often, the work I create from one moment to the next will be very different from each other and I really enjoy this. It allows me to have a much broader experience of the world. At times when I don't get out much in Winnipeg winters, I need to create a stimulus that allows me to see the world through various artistic disciplines.