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delivery, etc expenses that vary with various factors NOTE: .
Most of the more
special paintings shown here have been held through the years to
accumualte and frame enough high quality paintings to form a one-man
show in the near future. Contact me if you would like an
invitation to the show
EDGE OF THE EARTH 48"x
36" oils on canvas - approx $3700 Much
work in this!
One of my latest paintings, never been out of studio. It was inspired
by the flat rocks along a portion of the east shore of the Bruce
Peninsula, Ontario, but captures a general idea that could apply to any
large lake or ocean. The idea is that based on actual human
experience, the earth is a vast flat plane which ends somewhere. Our
ideas about a spherical earth come from indirect evidence, and we never
actually sense the curve of the earth. This is the reason in ancient
times, the earth was seen as a flat plain of the sea, and continents
were large islands in the sea
OSPREY BAY 42" x
28" acrylics on canvas - AROUND
$1700 (based on
time and effort in painting it)
"I painted this shortly after pursuing wildlife art full time,
around
1983. At that time I simply had a vision in my head and sought to put
it on canvas, without any thought about what I would do with it after
it was done. Art galleries are strongly concerned about saleability and
the reality was, and is, that walls are small today, and I am
competing with 'artists' who throw together abstract paintings in a
matter of hours, instead of weeks.. The painting was done in acrylics
on canvas, and I still have it here.My intent was to portray an osprey
splashdown into water to grab a fish breaking the spacious silence of a
summer day" Andres, 2017
IMPRESSING THE LADIES - WILD
TURKEYS - 18" x 24" - $3700
There are also wild turkeys in my area. Even if I didn't manage to get
very close to them, the very fact they were in my environment inspired
me to portray them. Actually this was painted in response to a
competition by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, which called
for a depiction of wild turkeys to suit a wallet-size "conservation
card". I was told mine was one of the finalists, but the trouble is
that these competitions give absolutely nothing if you do not win - not
even any publication of finalists or any publicity. This painting is
available.
LAZY CREEK 28"x28"
acrylics - $2800
This depicts a location no more than a half km from me. This painting
is an early one I did that used traditional landscape painting
techniques that used a looser technique to capture the feeling, rather
than detail.
REBIRTH about 24" x
36" - Very detailed work in a unique frame -
negotiable
This is a more recent painting from a few years ago. It was on show in
a gallery for a couple months some years ago. The painting is complex
in concept. Ir is based on the fact that new trees can grow out of
rotting stumps. Note I have included a wren on the forest floor
in the center foreground. It tells a story and has so much detail for
the eye to explore. It is not a 'pretty' image like most of my other
works because it is intended to stimulate thoughts regarding the way
Nature is constantly being reborn
THROUGH THE TREES
appox 14" x 20" - acrylics on hardboard
- $1000
This scene had a great mess of foreground trees, so I decide to blur it
and show it impressionistically so that the foreground would not be
made more important than the pond we are actually looking at
MISTY MARSH MOOSE 42" X
24" acrylics on hardboard - I
KEPT ORIGINAL FOR YEARS, BUT IT IS AVAILABLE (about $4000)
"This
was my first major project after
I committed myself to being a widlife artist fulltime for a living
around 1985. It began with an idea of putting a bull moose into
its most complementary habitat. The moose (in European English 'elk')
developed for a wetland environment. It is capable of closing its
nostrils and feeding on aquatic plants when completely submerged, for
several minnutes. It is also a good swimmer, and perfectly adapted to
an open marshy environment and northern wilderness. I spent a great
deal of time researching the appearance of the moose, and creating a
design in which the pine tree branches in the background repeat the
shape of the antlers to produce a visual mirroring, that creates a
connection between the animal and its environment (as opposed to the
animal seeming to be pasted over top of a background, as is the case
with bad wildlife art.) This was one that
I
wanted to reproduce in print form and add it to my collection of
limited edition prints. However, the moose is not a widely appealing
subject, and I held back on making a limited edition from it. I have
kept the original. The original is available for several
thousand." Andres May 2017
MOOSE PROFILE 36"x 24" acrylics on
hardboard $700
This was both a study of the moose head, lighting, and acrylic technique
WILD SHORE LOONS 42"x28"
- acrylics on
hardboard - (detailed work $7000) WAS ALSO REPRODUCED AS LIMITED
EDITION o 32" x 21"
This was inspired by my experiences fishing in the bay a km south from
where I am located. I happened to take photos, and one of the photos
showed an interesting and poetic pattern of driftwood and trees along
the shore. While the scene could have been left without the loons, but
having activity in the foreground would contrast with stillness of the
scene, and having the loons in the foreground enhances the sense of
depth. The loon is shown rising out of the water, and action that
sometimes means shaking water out if its feathers, and sometimes a
response to threats. I saw families of loons coming down into the bay
every year. The scene it true to nature. It is never wise to portray
nature that the artist does not know because if you do not know what
you are portraying, the painting looks flat and stale. This painting
has been on a long journey. One of may aims was to create a popular
image to publish as limited edition prints. The print was very
successful back in the late 1980's. Since then a new one-at-a-time
'giclee' (inkjet) process has developed, and individual very high
quality prints are possible now. The original sold for
$6000 in the late 1980's. The purchaser of the original found the
greens did not suit his house, and traded it back to
me for the same size Autumn
Cascade original. I have not resold it, as I intend to reframe it. But
time passes, and the frame is not completed. I also plan to accumulate
enough paintings to constitute a future one-man-show.
CHALK PAINTING 22" x
24" - acrylics on hardboard - $2700
This painting depicts the concrete tiles that constitute the floor of
Nathan Phillip Square in Toronto. Annually for decades now there
has been a several-day art festival there in the summer. I was an
exhibitor several years, And that is where I got the brilliant
idea. The concept depicts a child creating a chalk drawing on one of
the concrete squares. The drawing depicts the art festival. I
thought that organizers or fans of the festival may find this
interesting. I exhibited it the next year, but nobody really understood
the concept without explanation. Unfortunately most of the public does
not understand how much time it takes to create such a painting, and I
was offered prices far too low for my accomplishment. I have not shown
it since then.
ALGONGUIN POND #2 48"x36"
- oil on canvas - suggested price maybe around $3000
This is one of 3 paintings capturing a typical scene in the
Algonquin Park region of central Ontario. Nature is not very organized,
and one of the aims of art is to make the shapes and textures
more balanced and organized. In addition the artist tries to capture
the feeling of the place. This painting is different from the original
"Algonquin Pond#1" But since the painting portrays the same
location, if you did not compare the two, you would think they are the
same painting. But they are different interpretations.
ALGONGUIN POND #3 48"x36"
- oil on canvas - suggested price maybe around $2700
This
is the third interpretation of the location. It based on the
region to the right (south),
and here I explored oil painting and impressionistic techniques
Note how this painting captures more of the "feeling" of a scene, while
#1 and #2 are more descriptive.
PINK ROCK 36" x 24": acrylic on canvas -
$1700 Done in less detail for the size and priced less
If you have visited the Canadian Shield landscape of lakes and exposed
granite rocks, shores and islands of pink rocks with pine and juniper
is familiar. This painting was done to capture the feeling of pink
rocks against a blue lake and sky, using the realistic elements for a
pleasing design as well.
AUTUMN HAZE 8" x 12"
acrylics on hardboard - I value this painting for being
very impressionistic. Approx $1200
This painting is mostly subtle colours intended to capture the feeling
of a hot fall day - Indian Summer.
UNDER NORTHERN SKIES ORIGINAL 72"x48"
- acrylics on canvas - due to two
months of work on it, the price is high, however I will value its being
hung in a public venue where it will be seen from the general public.
LIMITED EDITION PRINTS MADE WERE 33"x22" and for $200 (SOME
AVAILABLE)
An
enormous painting on canvas. When I showed it at the Buckhorn Wildlife
Art Festival in the early 1990's, an artist asked me - why paint it so
big? Unless some corportation or institution commissions such a
large paintings, an artist will not pursue a project for which success
and sale is uncertain. But I had already done a smaller version and was
inspired to capture the full effect of this dramatic sky - which I
experienced while skiing on the lake where I am located in central
Ontario, Canada. To capture the full effect of the sky, it had to be
large. I was not thinking about what I would do with it when done. I
was thinking more about whether I would succeed!! But I did
succeed, and by now I had had success in selling limited edition prints
of my Wild Shore Loons image, and this would be my next limited edition
print. The making of the print was a major undertaking because I wanted
to make the best possible print in the largest size possible on the
most advanced offset litho presses. The total bill for 600 prints came
to about $10,000. Unfortunately, this was the early part of the 1990's
and because of a recession, the original wildlife art print market was
collapsing, and eventually it was better to sell copies directly rather
thant incur the cost of distributing to dealers, advertising, and so
on. As a result I still have prints of this image left out at the back
of my studio. Email me if you would like to get more photos and
information about the print, even if you do not order yet. Shipping in
rolled up form, is not expensive, but has to be immediately unrolled on
arrival. Price of the original would be around $10,000. It has
never been on gallery display, but was publicized mainly through the
prints.
STUDY OF WOLF
FACE 24" x 24" acrylics on
hardboard $1200
All wolves have the same pattern of
fur on their face, and hints of the coloration patterns. It is because
we recognize it in dogs, that a wolf can look attractive like a
short-eared large dog.
TUNDRA SPRING - WHITE THROATED GOOSE - 18" x 24" - acrylics on
hardboard - $3900
These
goose
winter in southern Europe or southern North America, and winter either
in the Canadian arctic of arctic islands of Europe. Some believe they
are ancestral to the common farmyard goose. I do not know these birds.
I researched them through internet pictures, and developed it as it was
one of the birds suggested as the subject in a Wildlife Habitat Canada
wildlife art competition. This painting was one of the top three and
shown off in Ottawa, but of course I would have preferred to win.
Apparently this was a finalist. It has not been handled by any gallery,
and most people have only seen it on my web pages.
(Right) The painting on display by Wildlife Habitat Canada in Ottawa
that year
WOLF DESIGN 24" x
40" acrylics on canvas -
unique experimental painting, negotiable
I
was inspired by graphics of animals in Native art, to try something
like that myself. Here the circle is the moon, and the curves around it
suggest antlers of caribou, and the wolf is closely tied to the caribou
as prey, in northern Canada.
But it also applies to northern Eurasia where there are wolves and
reindeer
THE
TEACHING ROCKS - BLACK
BEARS 48"x32" - acrylics on hardboard -
Individually giclee-reproduced prints have been made and can be made to
order.
This
painting attempted to capture the original essence of these native rock
carvings near Peterborough Ontario Canada. All the details are
accurately located. This is not how they look today. Today they are in
a park and covered by a glass and steel structure, turned into a museum
display for tourist visitors. That was certainly not its original
purpose. Originally those who came there in the original Native Canada,
came to express their
reverence to it and perhaps add a carving of their own to convey a
message to the site and its spirits. This painting has a spiritual side
to it. Native world-view attributed spirits to everything, and that
would include the painting and prints made from it. Since I have sold
several prints to Native customers, it has not met resistance from
people who had seen it. In order for me not to deal with the spiritual
site, the painting is actually addressed to black bears, who, legend
has it, were guardians of the site. That makes the painting not about
the site, but about the bears, with the site being background. The true
responsibility for t he painting rests with the bears.I do not think I
could have assumed the burden of depicting the site without the
assistance of the bears. In any event, since there is this spiritual
aspect to it, that must respect the content, the final destination of
this painting has to feel appropriate. Contact me, if you feel you or
your organization can be a good guardian for the painting, and of
course the site.
CLOUDDANCE 28"x16" - acrylics
on hardboard - $1700
After my success with 'Summer Sympony Loons' print, I painted
this as a
'part two' of that success. It was painted in exactly the same size as
the original of 'Summer Symphony-Loons' and I envisioned it being
printed in exactly the same size and similar paper. But this plan has
not gone anywhere. The reason is largely as I say in the text, that I
became weary of the 'buiness side' of limited edition prints.
THE ROWBOAT 36"x 24" -
acrylic and graphite on hardboard - $700 This
is a sketch, even though on a large panel, and did not involve much
time.
This interprets a photo I came across, in order to practice mizing
media - in this case combining pencil and acrylic paint.
TUNDRA SPRING - ARCTIC WOLVES -
acrylics on hardboard -
Negotiatable to a special price around $1700 if you have a
special interest in arctic wolves.
By the time I painted this, I had
painted some scenes with very menacing looking timber wolves. When I
saw picturs of white arctic wolves, I saw them being very pretty, and
my experiment here was to see if I could paint a sunny arctic summer
portrait of arctic wolves that was actually very pleasant.
Research involved visiting and studying the white wolf pack at the
Toronto Zoo. I was inspired by videos of white wolves in the
tundra as summer approached. They were also the subject of Farley
Mowat's book 'Never Cry Wolf'. It was a completely different view of
wolves, than the traditional one of menacing looking wolves of southern
wilderness.
SILVERY WATERS - acrylics on
hardboard - very detailed word,
price about $2200
I evperienced this scene on my lake
one dusk while fishing off this rock, and took photos to capture the
very interesting water in the
foreground. Since the rock was stained by bird excrement, I added the
seagull to give it a focal point. This was a challenge in painting
water. The value of this painting lies in that accomplishment alone!
BLUEBIRD about 12" x 24"
- - acrylic on hardboard
- $1850
While driving backroads in eastern Ontario on my way to an art
festival
near Ottawa, I came across such old farmfields, with rock fences and
weeds, and a sense of preserving the past. I saw in this a
design that included a bluebird. An impressionistic approach was used
in order to inject some feeling, not possible with photographic
realism. One always departs from photographic realism, if it is
important to inject from feeling into the painting.
"REDBACK" PORTRAIT - acrylic on
hardboard - highly detailed work,
approx $900 based on work involved
This is a portrait of a visitor to my
property one winter. I learned that winter animals actually appreciate
the presence of another creature during the desolation of wintertime.
Portraits are best when they are of an actual individual.
TEMAGAMI
SUNRISE LARGE PAINTING 40" x 40" - acrylics
on hardboard - this painting is painted quite loosely so can be
priced about the same as a detailed work in half the size - about $1700
Returning
in the early morning from an art show at Temagami Ontario, I saw a
scene to my left in the direction of the rising sun, stopped my car,
and walked back with my camera and took some photographs. Later I was
inspired to try to develop what I saw into a large painting.
LAST UPDATE OF THIS PAGE MAY
2017.
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WELCOME
A
B O U T T H E A R T I S T:
I identified myself as an artist since I was 10, educated myself
through my teens, became an advertisting artist-writer for a few years
after highschool, but returned to school and a more practical career in
engineering planner for a decade before returning to art to try to make
a full time living from it since the early 1980's. I pursued art in
other forms including website design. For more images and text from my
career in art, see one of the following websites - Artography is very
complex and designed to be viewed at leisure from a desktop, while the
second autobiographical one is in text plus the same images, created
very plainly so that it is readable, like this page, from a small
mobile screen.
(LOOKS CRAMPED ON A
SMALL SCREEN)
THIS IS A WEBSITE I DESIGNED MYSELF AROUND
2010 AS A CATALOGUING AND OVERVIEW OF MY CAREER IN ART
THIS IS A PLAIN
WEBSITE I WROTE AND
DESIGNED WHEN MOBILE AND TABLETS BECAME POPULAR TO REVIEW MY HISTORY IN
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