Painting: Shine a Light

Shine a Light,
April 2016, Oil on Canvas

32 x x32

Featured at the Art Victoria Now! exhibition in Victoria, BC, May 14-23, 2016
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Painting: the Dreamer

The Dreamer, Oil on canvas, 36"x48"

Affectionately known as "Venus de Michael" in the studio.

My word of the day is contrapposto. It is used in the fine arts to describe the pose where all of the figure's weight is shifted onto one foot, so the shoulders twist opposite to the hips. Kind of like Venus in Botticelli's The Birth of Venus whose pose, by the way, looks remarkably like the Dreamer...

FRAMES OF REFERENCE Deer Lake Gallery exhibition

Painting: The Heart's Awakening

Based on the painting, "the Heart's Awakening," by William-Adolphe Bouguereau 

Oil on Canvas, 2013, 36"x48"

New Work in Motion - Oil Paintings

Oil on Canvas, June 2013, 26"x36"

 Oil on Canvas, June 2013, 28"x36"

Recent Studies - Oil Paintings

Cashing in on the classical influences, starting to incorporate more 'washes' and abstractions. Also spending time on more studies, the importance of which I always undervalue and make fun of. 

Oil on Canvas, June 2013, 24"x24"

Oil on Canvas, June 2013, 24"x20"

Oil on Canvas, June 2013, 14"x20"