Technology is always a mixed blessing. Recently I got a smart phone, a google product called android... within minutes of turning it on, I found an image of one of my paintings displayed in the phone's gallery database. I soon realized that the blog I am writing is a google product too, and the phone had automatically synchronized all of my blog pictures. So with a a few swipes of the finger on the touch screen I can bring up a 4x3 panel of thumbnails showing the 230+ images from the blog. What's more I'm able to insert a painting onto my phone's wallpaper (background). having done so, I realized that my paintings are just not composed properly for display on a cell phone, so I created this painting (Le Parapluie Rouge, hopefully you don't need a translator for that one... though I had to use the internet to figure out of it was masculine or feminine).
This painting was composed specifically to be a cell phone wall paper, more precise brushstrokes, better detail, and a horizontal arrangement for when you scroll back and forth along your app screen. The only downside is that the mostly white background makes for lousy contrast, I'll have to try and make a nighttime scene next time. The style of this one is completely based on my painting "The Twenty Ten Solution.", each doodle has it's own space, and the background is there to create depth. The doodles used were from notebooks completed just at the end of my stay at McGill, and overlapping with my new beginning at Concordia. I mention 230 paintings on the blog, but the total collection is probably more in the 2000 range, mostly small format landscapes, the rest larger abstracts and doodleism paintings.
Le Parapluie Rouge, 5 x 15" cold press. 2012 (No. 1486)
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