Bunkered down until the show.

I'll be pretty much locked in my studio until the show at Wallspace in June, so I don't really expect to have time to post much here until after the show is up.

cheers,

marcel

Clouds over the sea - workinprogress

Cheers,
Marcel

Show Hype - imaginary narrative illustrationism / impressionistic comics

I just wrote this about my upcoming show:

These paintings are mostly about stories, the kinds of stories we use to understand our place
in the universe, the ones we use to understand each other, the ones that show us how we
each got to 'here', this particular point in our lives. More specifically, the paintings are scenes
where these kinds of stories could happen.

In that sense, they could be seen as illustrations of imaginary novels, so you could say
they're a kind of imaginary narrative illustrationism. Or you could just say they're big
impressionistic comics.

That'll probably get edited again, but I think it describes things pretty well.

Cheers,
Marcel

So many ideas, so little time! (Which one to do?)

What's my next painting going to be? I've been having trouble working it out, so I redrew all of the better ideas I've had in the last couple of weeks onto one page. Holy schmoly!

I could make a whole show out of just these! A pretty big show at that!

And the reality is that I'll get just _one_ into the next show. :-/

Kind of frustrating, on one hand, great on the other because I have a lot to work with.

Now how the hell do I figure out which one to do?

Cheers,
Marcel

warm up robot comics sketch

... with his low rider bicycle

I'm having a bit of fun playing around with Corel Painter, which I just bought because it was on sale. No idea if I'll ever use it for anything art projects, but I often feel like I need to stay in touch with comics and digital art. Speaking of projects, I have to get to the studio to get some paintings done for my show coming up.

A pier. Workinprogress

Cheers,
Marcel

More painty paint / workinprogress

This one's nearly done. Just a few details to add.




Cheers,
Marcel