Acrylic and Oil on Hardboard I met a young woman called Angela Avocado and asked her to work with me on the Maps project. In the interview she told me that she liked beets and avocados so we used that as our jumping off point. I printed her back for the beet and her front for the avocado.…
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Acrylic and Oil on Hardboard From a monoprint with Zayda. She said she liked papaya so I took her literally. This is presentational of my illustration work, very cartoony in some respects. The yellow glow around the edges reminds me of a Lady Guadalupe I saw painted on a Mexican bus. Papain is a protein-digesting enzyme obtained from unripe papaya fruit, used…
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard I remember this from Joseph Campbell, “Brahma sits on a lotus, the symbol of divine energy and divine grace. The lotus grows from the navel of Vishnu, who is the sleeping god, whose dream is the universe.” When I started this with Dana, I had no idea where it was going,…
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard Many years ago a good friend of mine asked me to do a mural for her new baby. We based the works on creation myths from different cultures. One wall had Gabriel touching the baby, allowing it to forget it’s past and start anew. The second was the Egyptian Goddess…
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard A triptych series of monoprints featuring Glass Olive, one of my favorite people to work with. These were printed last year as part of the same session that yielded Quiddity and Choronzon. All three are 13″ x 24″ on Hardboard. Click on the thumbnail to view the larger image.
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard I’ve been listening to “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle while I paint. In one passage, he uses the term Satori, a Japanese Buddhist term for enlightenment, meaning “understanding”. I thought it the perfect title for the painting. In researching the meaning, I came across Kensho, in the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori…
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard From a monoprint session with Lilith Marie. Some images are murky and require a lot of staring and study be be realized. That’s not the case with this work. Lilith mentioned that she was fond of Cephalopods while we were making her mandala. I had only to block in the background…
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard The final painting of Lilith Marie’s Mandala. A breakthrough piece for me, it’s my first finished painting after a long hiatus and losing my muse. It’s been very cathartic for me, not only for healing my heart but for solidifying my ideas about the Objectify series. I had someone ask me why I call…
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard I had a breakthrough on this session, I kept staring at the vertical and horizontal shapes nade by Lilith Marie’s wonderful back. I had no idea how to tie them all together and get them to relate. Then I remembered that Lilith likes cephalopods. I started playing with the space in the lower…
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Mandala by Daniel Liam Gill, Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard
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