sometimes work is beautiful.

August 23, 2012 by keirartworks Leave a comment

My dad’s chopsaw, that cut all 1000 sq feet of our 1 1/4″ ash floor.
Thanks dad.

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Here’s the photoshop sketch for Red. Looking also for another image to layer on top of this for symbolic reasons… it will come.

3pm today. It has since transformed again. Sold.

polywog (detail), from What Makes Us, 2004

detail from “Manitoulin”, which I painted in 2004. This one’s big – approx 7’w x 5’h

detail of 4’x4′ painting in progress: D-ring snaffle bit

functional art – cobalt blue runner; sienna napkins – 5′ .5″ long by 24″ wide, back flannel back. $289.00 plus shipping

‘shovel’ very close to finished

Dad’s chopsaw – I cut an 1100 sq foot ash floor on this. Now it’s in a painting

taken September 27th, 5pm.

underdrawing for “response to Selfies 1”

diptych Shovel/Axe. 29″w x 78″h (x 2). $1799. each; $3,600. as dyptich.

moose – acrylic on paper, 2001 26″x40″ unframed. Not sold.

Silence (detail), from Sea Hear, 2001

“Bee”, acrylic and graphite on paper, 1999. 6×8″. Original is sold, but I am in the process of making prints. Will post on art page when they’re available

Bruce Peninsula tree in early spring

detail of the same painting

“Round I: Pilgrimage”, 36″, mixed media on canvas

6×6″, mixed media on paper, 1999 (sold)

This is a huge canvas that has served as the ‘catcher of drips’ on my studio wall for the past six years. it will become four huge paintings – each with five years of painting drips embedded

And shiny, reflective things…

From #Selfie (2014). ‘Masks’ – 84″ x 36″; mixed media on canvas; $3,250.00

taken when I was backing up Larry Jensen at The Court House, somewhere around 2004

detail d. intervention 2

“wishbones”, 1999, 6×8″, acrylic and graphite on paper. Sold

three of five images, underdrawing…

drawing on background

‘Black’. 2014, 36×36, acrylic on dyed cotton.

“Snakeroot”, 6×6″, graphite and acrylic on paper, 1999. Sold

Thanks for the rehearsal, L. More therapy.

The one just finished. 60″x72″; $3,350. It’s difficult to understand scale here (thumbnails are same size as my face). This one had me on lock-down for the last two days of its’ fulfillment.

this one is singing now….

#Selfie (Summer 2014 solo show): Round II: Surrender. 24″ Work in progress

plant fire

Algomarine at dock in Owen Sound harbour. I took this photo in 2009, and used in 2014 it as reference for the background of “Axe”

“Resonance”, from Sea Hear (2001). 60″x48″; sold

new series: foot prints1 (underpainting)

I wanted to put the ‘positive’ image on the black ground, and the inverse one on white… Here’s the drawing

drawing on background for ‘Axe’

inheritance from two families on my mother’s side: A proud sign from Kennedy Foundry of Owen Sound, hanging on the wall of Circle Bar Ladies’ Hosiery factory, also in Owen Sound, owned and operated by my mom & aunt’s grandparents, Walter and Catherine Keebler.

blue ground from “Axe” before cheesecloth and netting layer applied

detail of Snaffle Bit (in progress). 4′ square

footprints 2 (underpainting)

Hologram, from a series of paintings about music from 2001. I’ve always wanted to create a third image that exists in front of the painting, depending on the light & time of day. It worked in this one. Impossible to photograph, tho.

me hiding behind my other self

Cello Spine, from What Makes Us, 2004. Acrylic and vine charcoal on Linen, 6’x 28″, sold.

from #Selfie (2014). inverse image of me on white indian cotton.

detail from a painting I’m working on now. I think it’s about my parents…

apologies – this is a studio shot and I was in a rush – show opening 2 hours hence. It’s a bit blurry. Will post proper shot when I can…

Beaver River valley, from What Makes Us, 2004. 18″ w x 48″, sold.

front

“Throwback”, 2014, 60″x60″, Acrylic on a piece of artist’s canvas (I’d used as a housepainting drop sheet for 15 years). $2,950.00

Hip Cello, from 2008, recently come back to me, since the owner has drastically reduced his wall space.. I’ve missed this one.

The only painting I cannot sell the original of – inspired by Ted Huges’ book “Crow”, and painted after a near-death experience on the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. Two full-sized high-quality prints are left of an edition of 4 – $600. unframed each.

By tomorrow morning these two will be in the hall, and the next two up & talking. Stay with me, folks….

Chalk Horse, 2014; 48″sq, acrylic and mixed media on canvas. I wrote two blogs about the process of this painting called “Letting Go”. Not sold; $1,850.00

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