Seeds

New Beginnings
The Seeds are a metaphor for my journey from designer and illustrator to painter, the germination of a new beginning.
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Seeds and Sketches Added I’ve been added to the John Richard Collection of Fine Art Prints. Several pieces of art from Seeds and a few sketches are featured in the following photos. It’s a wonderful opportunity and I’d like to thank Ann Stokes and Jeff Rosenburg.
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard Created from a session with Adora Belle, the smallest and funniest model I’ve worked with to date, she’s a delight. It’s a mixture of Adora’s flesh and my paint. The most representative work in the series so far it’s inspired me to do more dresses. Click on …
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard My first work with Lluna, my tallest collaborator to date. This is the most unusual oiece in the series so far, there’s so much in it. I had contemplated calling it “Salmon, Apple, Moon” until my friend Shannon suggested Undine- According to a theory advanced …
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard The third in the Sister Thyme Series. It has a distinctly vegetable feel to the composition, leaves that could be wings and the ever present fish at the bottom of the painting. Samantha says the background looks like northern lights. This one is her favorite and mine as …
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard The second in the Sister Thyme Series, created with Samantha. I started blocking out shapes on this piece and a wolf’s head emerged. The model mentioned that her middle names was Ylva, meaning she-wolf in Norse. The name stuck and the piece is officially called Ylva.
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Acrylic, Oil and
Colored Pencil on Masonite, 24”x 25” Collection of Sister Thyme Click to enlarge. I have had the pleasure of working with a model/writer/photographer/artist here in Portland. Her name is Sister Thyme. One look at her face and I could tell she had an old soul. This is the first painting in …
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard The second in a series working in collaboration with Aspen. These are detail shots of the 24″ x 48″ painting as well as the finished painting. I used colored pencil here to sharpen details and isolate areas of the painting. It’s got a good animal/vegetable …
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Hardboard I started painting again last week, specifically on my abstract series. I haven’t done any work on this series since I left the Rivoli in September of last year. I’ve just rented a new studio in Portland, which is small but suited to painting. I bought …
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My Color Image Gallery I am the featured artist this month at My Color Image Gallery in Chattanooga, TN. Here’s a preview of the featured works and a thanks to Kate O’Brien Clarke, the model for a majority of the Dysphagia Series.
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Acrylic, Oil and Colored Pencil on Wood Sometimes there are paintings where the muse takes over and magic jumps from the surface and guides my hand. I didn’t think much of this one when I added the blue green layer. It was truly as mess. I walked by it a few …
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The John Richard Collection
Sister Thyme No.2 (Ylva)
Featured Artist in March
Written by Daniel Liam Gill
Daniel Liam Gill is a painter who lives in Portland, Oregon.
He is currently working on the series' Objectify and Seeds.
Daniel was born in American Falls, Idaho in the fall of 1961. He spent his formative years in the American South working as an illustrator, graphic designer and art director. Daniel taught illustration design at Portfolio Center in Atlanta, Georgia and illustration at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. He co-founded The Illustrators’ Jam with PNCA and Raw Visceralia, an art experience.
Daniel studied pastels with Lee Bomhoff , an Atlanta artist.
He honed his figure drawing skills in Portland, Oregon, creating hundreds pastel drawings over several years. Daniel graduated to oils in 2006 and started the series, Connective Tissue in 2007.