"No Matter What"4X4, Diptych, Acrylic on Canvas

first layer, 30.11.11 comments, figures too blue going to glaze with orange hue

"No Matter What" 4x4 Diptych, Acrylic on Canvas

ground completed 20.11.11

Pushed, 48" x 60" Acrylic on Canvas finished

Pushed, 48"x60" acrylic on canvas ( unfinished)

I am reworking "Pushed". I feel I need to re proportion the figure and pop the figure out from the ground. He may recede later

The Trailing Spouse Series, 3 x 48"x72", acrylic on Canvas

Warren lake NS in Summer, Fall and Winter. A deep breath is taken to commit the place to memory. In every relationship one has to compromise, Fall is a time of transition. What remains are memories and evergreen trees.

What Remains, 48" x 72", acrylic on canvas

In the end I decided to pull the figure forward and recede the mountains, but only slightly. In the series the figures and the landscape are to fight for position.

"No Matter What", 4' x 4' diptych, photo image on paper

Building on the smaller portrait I am now exploring a much larger diptych which will include layers of images. The ground layer of images include poses , indecision , that lead to the final pose that I used in the original portrait. I've done this using masking in the digital world. The final mask layer is just the faces as I feel that the connection between the two figures is shown by how they are looking at one another. To place them in a diptych shows how even to pull them apart in two canvas will not break that bond.