Art Gallery Underground

Art galleries are tucked away in alleys, hidden on corners behind a cul du sac, and in the Montreal underground! In this imaginary landscape there is an art gallery under the highways and roads and ever-present no parking sign that one finds in the city. In the background a futuristic dream condo where only purple cartoon characters can live. And no, I wasn't smoking or drinking anything while painting this. Well I may have been sipping some of that Brazilian tea we got from friends down south, what is in that stuff anyways?

Speaking of inspiration, these paintings are mostly based on doodles done while at work or away at conferences. The composition is put together when I sit down and start painting, same with the colour scheme. This year (2017) I decided to pause for awhile with the doodle approach and go with totally original designs and compositions. The difference is that I draw inspiration from my thought and feeling of the moment, rather than from thoughts and feelings from whenever doodles are made, which can often be 1 year or more in the past. I posted one result (Sympathetic Fire) and a new one is about half done now, it is not completed yet; it goes slower when waiting for inspiration to hit. I also pulled out my suitcase full of old paintings and will take a few scans of those to do blogs.

15 x 11" cold press Watercolour. 2016 (November?)