Quick acrylic sketches
Event: Bare Bones Exhibit at the Dupont Projects
Category: Acrylic on mini canvas board
Timeframe: November 2018
The sky’s the limit
The task
Acrylics provide a medium that allow for rich colour experimentation. This seemed a natural direction for me to explore with “quick studies” for the Bare Bones exhibit that I was invited to as one of 14 artists. Growing up in Toronto doesn’t lend itself to seeing an expansive horizon, and I was awed by the open landscape of northern Scotland during a recent trip. This provided my thematic inspiration and a way to take myself back there.
”Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An expansive expressive sky over an open landscape is infinitely variable. Moment by moment, ever-changing, and ephemeral, clouds and light are fleeting, deeply ominous or joyously uplifting, reflecting mother nature’s ever-changing moods. Or perhaps these are just our own moods that we are seeing expressed. I created the 7 paintings over two evenings, on small, postcard-sized canvas boards.
About Bare Bones
Bare Bones was the brainchild of artist Sydney Morrison.
“From overflowing drawers of newsprint gestures, tattered sketchbooks and abandoned studies, Bare Bones is the ultimate showcase of the studio brain. Fourteen emerging Toronto artists tackle the balance of process over product; embodying the fresh behind-the-scenes enthusiasm of raw imagery. In effect, Bare Bones is a testament to the artist process itself.”
I created over 20 pieces for this exhibit, diving into new, fast techniques that forced me to be more spontaneous and less of a detail perfectionist than my typical approaches to art had been. 12 pieces were bought on the opening night of a “buy it off the wall” show.
Check out Sydney’s work too!:
sydneymorrison.com
Link to bare bones page: sydneymorrison.com/barebones/