Brian's Exploration in Art
Retirement has provided me with an opportunity to explore my creative side. I’ve always enjoyed creative pursuits, but I never took the time to really exercise my artistic muscles. That’s all changed and I am letting my inner artist run free now. This Blog is a record of my work as it progresses where I try to explain a bit about each painting and the process involved in its creation. I’ve found that generally the paintings I like the most have a background story that resonates with me. I’ll do my best to describe each story as I go.
I’ve noticed a marked improvement as I get more experience with the paint brush and acrylic paints, but I am still early on this path of exploration. I hope to hit my 100th painting sometime in 2024 and, hopefully by summer 2024, I will be ready to open my gallery at Twin Eagles Bluff.
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“Silver apple in sunshine.” (76)
Painted in Dec, 2024. 14”x11”. Acrylic on stretched canvas. Price $140.00 Cdn. – unframed. Glass and highly reflective surfaces are a challenge with acrylic paint. It’s hard to
“Dancing with my shadow.”
Painted in Dec, 2024. 14”x 11”. Acrylic on stretched canvas. Price $140.00 Cdn. – unframed. I’m working on a series of still lives and this is a painting
“New England Bay at Sunset.” (70)
Painted on November, 2024. 30” x 24”. Acrylic on stretched canvas. Price $720.00 Unframed. In my painting course, we did a session on broken colour technique, so I
“Frost over Texada”
Painted on August, 2024. 48” x 30”. Acrylic on stretched canvas. Price $1400.00 Unframed. I have a complicated relationship with winter. On the one hand, it’s a time
“Speeding through Midway BC.”
Painted on November, 2024. 18” x 14”. Acrylic on stretched canvas. Price $252.00 Unframed. I’m taking a course on Acrylic Painting from Vancouver Island University, and it forces
“Fading Memories of Summer.”
Painted on September 2024. 16”x20”. Acrylic on stretched canvas. $340.00 (framed). I wanted to challenge myself on this painting in a number of ways. It was
“Untried Paths.”
Painted on August, 2024. 16” x 20”. Acrylic on strtetched canvas. Price $320.00 Framed. When it snows on Twin Eagles Bluff, the forest behind the house delivers lots
“Sunsets last embrace.”
Painted on February 4, 2024. 10” x 10”. Acrylic on cradled wood panel. Taking the ferry from qathet, heading South to Vancouver, always leaves me with a
Colourful Beginnings: Letting colour speak for itself.
I have always primed my canvases with one colour or another before I get into the nitty gritty of the actual painting process. There is
“I will wait.”
“I will wait.” Painted March 2023. 12”x12”. Acrylic on Stretched Canvas. I’ve been ruminating on the idea of patience lately. Entanglements have been slow to untangle. Expectations that seemed
“I have one thing to say”.
SOLD. “I have one thing to say.” Painted December 2022. 12”x12”. Acrylic on stretched Canvas. I’ve been wanting to tackle a cow painting for a
“You Lookin’ at me?”
SOLD. “You lookin’ at me?” Painted November 2022. 16”x12”. Acrylic on stretched Canvas. Growing up on a ranch you are aware that animals aren’t all fluffy pets