I’m really excited with these two paintings I’m working on! My main approach to a canvas is abstract and everything I do is intentional. Base coats bleed through, brushstrokes create small moments of light and colours are picked with an underlying meaning – The closer you look, the more you can find all the details
Two shots of a new piece I am working on. It’s not quite done yet…or maybe it is. I decided to leave it for a few days, put the brush down, step back from the painting and let the ideas settle into the canvas.
Laying down some practice shots. Canon RP mounted on Dji rsc2.
“Hiding Spot” Acrylic, 16×20. I’ve been working on this painting for a week, creating a space to hide, through the colours and the corridors. I think about all the secrets we held so close when we were younger…when I was painting it felt like i was floating away…using the brush to ground me and bring me back down.
I’ve posted some close shots, you can see the textures, and how the colours blend. I’m happy with how this turned out, looking forward to revisiting this technique on another canvas.
It is nice to reflect and look back on my earlier work. This was shot in 2011 on Bolex, I remember it was cold, and I remember wanting the clip to look and feel like a painting. Understanding the graininess of the film stock and how flat white backgrounds can create so much texture, I was able to achieve my goal.
The most satisfying part of filmmaking is seeing all these images in my brain, a congestion of unmade compositions, and being able to organize and translate them to this medium.
Last week I woke up and the city was covered in the most gorgeous blanket of fog. I grabbed my camera and ventured out to take some photos in the haze.
Taking a different approach to portraits, creating something a bit atmospheric through the audio with some dynamic black and white static shots. This one was my Dad. Glad to work with him and get out into the woods to shoot some really fun footage.
My last post about Night of the Living Dead got me thinking about how our perception changes over time. Night of the Living Dead is such an iconic and groundbreaking film, a “new dawn in Horror Film-making”. And in the wake of our current political and social climate, Night of the Living Dead really exemplifies how our perception radically changes, and how one film can exist in two planes at the same time.
Night of the Living Dead, but make it Rorschach. As soon as I learned that NOTLD was public domain, I took the entire original film, layered, mirrored, and sped it up to fit into a tidy 30 seconds. Its giving me Event Horizon hell-in-space sequence, but whatever the feeling I really like how this looks and sounds (I played with the reverb a bunch to get the nightmare-ish audio)
Working on a new piece at my studio and it’s coming together so nicely. I use a lot of dry brush technique to get my blending game strong, so I’m really stoked with how this one looks. A few more layers and it’ll be ready.
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