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Upcoming Show! East to West

September 24, 2013art, lifeand mcdougall, art, artist, artistic, beans & bacon, bobby dixon, bourgeoise serigraphe, byebye bambi, color, colors, edition, fairley bookout, flatstock, gary houston, gigposter, gregg gordon, illustration, jared connor, johnnycrap, limited, marie-eve gauthier, nate duval, poster, screen, screenprint, serie, serigraphe, serigraphie, sophie casson, veronique meignaud, vilx muutopie selective

If you are around Montreal next week, I’ll be at the event “East to West” of the screenprinting studio “La Bourgeoise Sérigraphe”.

(click the picture for the link to the facebook event, with the address and more info)

I will be selling a limited edition screenprint that I’m not gonna show before the event, but all the remaining copies will be available on this site after.

A selected group of artists from all around North America will be presenting and selling some of their homemade screenprints!
If you don’t own a screenprint yet, then it’s the perfect time!

I’ll be showing one of my projects alongside the some of Canadian’s big names:
Sophie Casson, Marie-Eve Gauthier, Véronique Meignaud, Vilx Mu, Johnnycrap, Beans & Bacon, just to name a few.
There will be also “gigposters” screenprints made from american “Flatstocks” by Gary Houston, Billy Perkins, Nate Duval, Gregg Gordon, Bobby Dixon, Jared Connor, Farley Bookout and more!
Even bigger names!

It’s going to be awesome. SERIOUSLY.

Andy McDougall, the master screenprinter behind squeegeeville, will be present at the event and will also be giving an advanced class following the exhibition. Actually…the class is full already…but the exhibition isn’t!!!

Drunk on Vapors

March 26, 2013artart, artist, artistic, atreyu, b&w, canvas, canvases, draw, drawing, gmork, illustration, instaart, jenny saville, large, life, man, neverending story, new, sketch, studioutopie selective

Since I started this venture, I kept myself locked in small formats.
For what? Scared of loosing too much material. time. money. whatever. In the end, it just pissed me off. Badly. What’s the use?!?! In my head, it’s all about large canvases. All the time, It’s getting bigger and bigger in my head. Painting, sculptures, well hell yeah, but not if it can go through the door! (We will deal with the problems related to that statement later!) It’s like a Jenny Saville painting, it’s a blast in the face, you get in the room and baaaammmm, you’re destroyed by the weight of what’s in front of you. Could be this. Could be that. either way you are crushed.

I mean, yeah, small format has its use, but in the end, I look at it and I feel like him doing shit. So I stopped whining, put on the largest piece of paper on the wall, and threw myself at it with a piece of charcoal like there was no tomorrow. “Now canvas… it’s between you and me. And I ain’t coming down without a fight.” That’s what I wish I had said. something like that, or even better: “If we’re about to die anyway, I’d rather die fighting!” (awwww Neverending story…)

I was Atreyu for a second. Here’s what came out.

I’m happy. It’s not much about the end result actually. it was the fight. Intense, and actually quite short. After two hours I had nothing left in me. I left the studio, had a good sleep, and then came back several days later to finish the last details. I hope this piece transmit the intensity I had when I was drawing.

I like it for now, I’ll pursue in that vein. I want to go on with the same energy, so I started a new one already. hopefully, I will not trash it before the end, but lets not give a damn for the moment shall we. I’ll just concentrate on doing what I want.

Close-ups

Training as Ashley Wood Junior

March 22, 2013art, Uncategorizedart, artist, artistic, ashley, ashleywood, bambaland, canvas, color, colors, draw, drawing, experience, instaart, paint, painting, practice, studio, woman, woodutopie selective

Here’s an artist I really like, Ashley Wood.

There is something amazing with his style, so rough it’s immediately recognizable but almost abstract at the same time. As if all his paintings were thick with dust in the air.

Well, my title made me laugh, I’m not really trying to be Ashley Wood junior, but want it or not, reproducing painting from the masters is the best way to practice a style.
Just to make sure: all the rights goes to his work, and so on, I’m not planning on making anything with that painting. except practice.

So here it is. It’s not done yet, but you can see the first layer.

There’s other stuff going on, but I’ll post them on monday! Be patient!

First practice

March 8, 2013artalfred, alfred hitchcock, art, artist, b&w, crayon, hitchcock, kosovo, kosovo war, man, men, monochrome, movie, new, nude, paint, painting, pencil, pose, poses, posing, proportions, psycho, red, solider, vintage, warutopie selective

Although work has been crazy, I had some time to enjoy the studio.
Here is two fast practice I made. You can see the progress.

The black and white one is from a youtube documentary of a war journalist following a group of soldiers during the Kosovo War. At that point, the soldier was explaining that he had spent his life working in that factory, and now his job was to defend it.

You can see the video here.

The second one is inspired by a drawing I made in a life session several weeks ago. Testing out the colors. Proportions are way off.

Which one do you like?

So far, people seem to prefer the first step of each. humph!

Ho, and here is a drawing I made at work, while waiting for my computer. It’s the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.

Ciao!

New Start

February 8, 2013art, life, studioart, artist, artistic, canvas, canvases, color, colors, draw, gesso, instaart, live, live drawing, living, loft, man, new, nude, paint, painting, pastel, pencil, people, pose, poses, posing, sketch, space, start, studio, white, woman, workplaceutopie selective

Well,
Obviously, the first week isn’t especially entertaining.

In order to have a real fresh start, I decided to whiten everything I had done so far:
the tests, the incompletes, the not good enought or even those I just got tired of looking.

So here you go, dozens of white canvases.

Now all I need is inspiration….

Oh okay, I’ll post something I did two weeks ago in order to keep the interest. I know my dirty studio floor is not so captivating.
Here is my favorites from a live drawing session I went two weeks ago.

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