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Love and Hearts. Happy February all! As the winter rolls by bringing us more cold weather, I have been consistently staying inside sketching and painting with my recently acquired tabletop easel. It has allowed me to stay focused on artmaking and not get distracted from the cold outside studio. With this I have fallen back in love with oils. The smell, the malleability, the earthy, yet vibrant color. Ahhhh, there’s nothing like it!

Before the Georgia Snowpocalypse of 2014, Marie and I made a most invigorating trip to Atlanta visiting our friends Nick and Meredith. We travelled around to amazing galleries in the area including Mint Gallery, Beep Beep Gallery, Whitespace, Poem 88 and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Truly amazing and inspiring experience seeing all the astounding work in these spaces.

Without further adieu, this piece, “C is for Carl” is the latest in my ongoing series, “It’s a Wildlife”. This series examines the industrialization of animals and repercussions of how far we have become separated from the farm, wildlife and nature itself. This one and others are available through Xanadu Studios. Click here to purchase!

Until the next 30 moons…

-Will

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Leave a Comment / admin / November 11, 2013 / bull, commission, expressionist, farm, impressionist, painting, rural, texture

NOVEMBER 2013

Hallo meine Freunde und Familie! You’ll notice some changes to this month’s newsletter. I’ve decided to change some things around a bit to hopefully keep you all interested and not overwhelmed with info. I’ve dropped the sections and decided to keep the newsletter focused on a single subject or piece of artwork. I’ll still be doing specials from time to time and will notify everyone accordingly.

So this latest piece is a special commission for a friend of mind who has been collecting my work for a little over a year now. This friend/collector particularly likes my wildlife subjects and commissioned me to do a painting of a bull. It was a great challenge as I haven’t painted a bull before. I enjoyed painting at this large size as it allowed for broader brush marks and adds to the boldness of the head-on image of the bull. I enjoyed painting at this large size as it allowed for broader brush marks and adds to the boldness of the head-on image of the bull.

Okay I think that’s it for this issue. I hope everyone has a fun and safe Thanksgiving!

Until the next 30 moons…

-Will

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