Thursday, June 23, 2011

My paintings in Ottawa at Home magazine

They did an article on Raw Sugar Cafe when my paintings happened to be hanging there last month. Raw Sugar has a copy, so I went over and took a quick photo. (thanks Nadia!)




Cheers,
Marcel

New indie-comic-style paintings posted


I've posted the first set of the new style, replete with real-camera-not-a-phone-camera images, to my website. I'm currently calling this style 'indie-comic-style', as opposed to my customary blobby-paint-style, seen here:


It's kind of a hybrid painting/drawing style, and it reminds me a lot of the indie comics I used to read and pick up at the indie comic shows that I used to do, which is why I'm calling it what I'm calling it. I never inked my comics like that, though, and as I mentioned in a previous post, I really wish I'd learned to ink like that. Much faster and more fun.Oh well, I'm a bit slow sometimes.

I'm not going to abandon the blobby-paint-style, as there's just too much one can do with that, but I'd also like to keep exploring what I can do with the indie-comic-style paintings. I just hope that they sell well enough to justify the effort.

cheers,
Marcel

Friday, June 17, 2011

Inner comic book artist revealed. .

Trees, roads, lonely little lakes:







This pair mean that I'm all done my first set of drawy-paintings / painty drawings. I still have no idea what to call them, as they're kind of a hybrid. Really what they are is indie-comic style wall panel art. I think my past as an indie comic creator is coming out more and more.

Now I just have to figure out how to price them. :-/

Pricing is one of the more vexing aspects of being an artist/one person business. I'd like to make them available at a more accessible price point than my full colour blobby paintings, so I'm thinking maybe $500 for a 20x24 and $650 for a 22x30. I should really hear what the galleries say about them though, since they're the ones who would be selling them.


Cheers,
Marcel

Thursday, June 16, 2011

I wish I 'inked' like this when I did comics

Here's another new painting. I'm having a lot of fun with this stripped down format. It's a lot like inking comics. Or like I wished I had done them when I was still doing them, instead of what I did do with tiny little brushes and pens and getting way too tight with the drawing.

Ah well, the hindsight of old age and feeble-tude.




Cheers,
Marcel

A non-categorized artifact with canoe

Not really sure what to call this style. Is it a painting? Is it a drawing? A scribbly doo-dad?

In any case, enjoy!




Cheers,
Marcel

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Mining town


Here's a new landscape in the drawing/painting style. This one's a bit bigger at 22x30.




Cheers,
Marcel

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

New Dock Diver

Who knows if this new drawing/painting style that I'm working is going to be worth the effort? I'm liking the results so far, so I think it's got a chance, but it's both a creative and product development process at the same time, so you never know until you get it in front of people. This one's 20x24:



Cheers,
Marcel

Friday, June 10, 2011

Red umbrella, little red house

Holy crap! New paintings!

It's been busy at the day job, and I feel like I've been away from the studio for far too long.


Here are a couple of new small experimental paintings I just finished.


Cheers,
Marcel