Visceral Glow

I was going to call this painting 'RIP Habs' since our hockey team was eliminated from the conference finals of the Stanley Cup playoffs tonight. At least they had a surprisingly good run and we got moments of excitement. I made a painting on location down at the arena during one of the matches. Instead the painting is called Visceral Glow because it kind of looks like internal organs, and uses a glow-effect technique that I explored with some recent digital artwork. You can click on the digital tag to see all those blogs. By studying the digital images up close, I am starting to figure out how to paint neon-glow effects with watercolour, which is exceedingly difficult to do with real paint. Digitally it is quite easy though... in fact making digital art is like Charles the Gorilla... he was a gorilla at the Toronto zoo who liked to finger paint, and the zoo sold his work to raise money. What I do is much the same. I think using a paintbrush to do watercolours is old fashioned and somewhat obsolete, but I still enjoy it immensely. The fact you can make art with just paint, paper, brushes, and attitude will never grow old. 

Visceral Glow, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, May 2026