"secretive" paintings

I have 4 "secretive" paintings in the works for the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition coming up July 8-10. Here they are gessoed and primed. More details soon...

Let the primith begin!

I'm choosing to focus on creating some smaller more affordable new works for the upcoming Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 2016. Here is a shot of the gesso express. (Gesso = the white liquid used to prime a surface for paint, for those unfamiliar.)

Gesso? I guess so.

One of the new painting I'm creating for The Artist Project Toronto will be painted on a 16" round wood panel! (I've always worked in squares/rectangles before previously. It's one of the new paintings I'm looking forward to the most.) Was a on a gessoing kick last night, priming a bunch of new surfaces.
 

(FYI: My favorite place to buy wood panels in Montreal is the UQAM art store: https://www.coopuqam.com/5-Boutique-des-arts-succursale.html)

Cereal Siege

I'm simultaneously working on 2 paintings right now. Just finished preparing the surface of the new one (my final project for the Illustrative Painting class at Syn Studio) with gesso and all done the planning. Almost ready to paint - my favorite part of the process. I included a sneak peek of the rough color study. The painting is called 'Cereal Siege'.