The Ice Storm

This is a small painting I did over the holidays in Bolton Ontario during the big ice strom that covered everything in an inch or two of ice. The orange rectangles falling from the sky represent the ice. The thing in the front is simply a creative shape invented on the spot. I noticed the way heavy ice affected trees in Bolton, this is reflected in the dropping tree branches on the right.

There are several fauvist elements here- the red shadows and orange ice cubes for instance. Fauvism is basically a style where you put colours that shouldn't be there just for the fun of it and to surprise the viewer. The doodleism style is a mix of other styles including fauvism. Some aspects of doodleism are cubist- cubism is where the artist deconstructs reality into broken lines and shapes that are mostly two dimensional in appearance. Other aspects of doodleism are surrealist- surrealism seeks to portray fantastic and imaginary landscapes in a highly realistic, three-dimensional manner. Doodleism often contain imaginary landscape elements but are not intended to look hyper realistic like classic surrealism (Dali example). In doodleism abstracted lines and shapes with two dimentional appearances take the stage in an environment containing broken horizons, multiple viewpoints, and different seasons all at once. 

Is it ok for an artist to define his or her own style... normally that is what critics do. I suppose we are our own best critic after all.

11x7.5" cold press. December 2013