Massey Hall after the show

Another small 11/14 oil on board in a loose free style, "Massey Hall after the show", I guess I should say another of a series of paintings of Toronto...

The Helena Experiment

          "The Helena Experiment" 30 by 40 oil on canvas From the tv show Orphan black. The title has a   double meaning, One is my using a thick impasto and knife work and leaving things a bit untidy, something im still working on. the other reason is its supposed during her "training days" and before she meets her sisters, here Helena is about to start her angel wings.
          Yea yea.. who's going to want this on there wall!!!???,..Who cares I wanted to do it......

The back of the garage

                                             12by 16 oil on board..."The back of the garage"
                                                 1965 yellow Jaguar xke roadster 

Wicked

12"by12" oil on board "Wicked". Summer at high noon near Dundas sq. The trick for me doing a loose, free style of painting is to leave well enough alone and not pick at it adding and changing.... So! there it is...

Academy of Realist Art

This is the "study" I did recently at a work shop at the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto. It is Saint Jerome writing, Caravaggio. The original painted in 1605 approx. is 44"/62" this one is much smaller 14"/18" so the detail isnt there. but the work shop was very useful, Caravaggio was "odd" ( if you consider a crazed murderer odd)  in life and it reflected in his method and style.

Tizio in una barca

12 by 16 oil on canvas, this is an iPhone picture, im pretty sure its done but you never know! I dont even have a title yet, Im thinking Tizio in una barca"

ca·thar·sis

noun \kə-ˈthär-səs\

: the act or process of releasing a strong emotion (such as pity or fear) especially by expressing it in an art form.

 These were two large unfinished  paintings that represent hundreds of hours of work. For technical reasons they were never going to be completed, destroying them was a good way to stop them from bothering me ever again...