Suburban Sunset Heat Rises From Asphalt
Suburban Sunset On warm July twilight when the sun stays high at the starts of the night and the days are long. The smells of and heat from asphalt on this hot day continue to hang around. From the roads…
Chris
I am a middle-aged painter, presently live in Toronto, Canada. Have come back to painting after many years away, so have little to show professionally. My work featured in blogs, online magazines and galleries.
Knee-High Socks Pull Focus From The Ankle
Knee-High Once a protection and warmth for the lower leg, now a more salacious connection, seem to persist. Socks pull focus away from the ankle and move far up the leg to the inner thigh, which is covered by a…
Sunday Best: Amish Boys Collared Shirt And Hats
Sunday Best The end of the week, for two Amish boys, has arrived; no work for today. Maybe it’s a holiday, an adult baptism, but I will certainly be spending time at church. Nothing goes on without some religious fervour…
Aaron Huey: Born USA, Worked For National Geographic
Documentary style is what draws me to most of the images for my painting, a story told through the image. In some cases this can be accomplished through with classic portraiture, but often occurs after the fact was not the original…
Big Toes, It Seems Rather Small
Big Toes Lounging on a long red carpet, her naked body stretched out fully, feet pointing towards the camera lens, her head fades off into the distance out of your view, except for her surprisingly small, big toes. These toes…
American Exceptionalism: If You Are Not ?
American Exceptionalism The photographer Chadwick Taylor did a series of images around America, its heartland dream. In the painting American Exceptionalism, the subject is unaware, or unwilling to admit, that it’s an illusion crated through movies and advertisements deluding themselves…
Dessert Spoon: Never Fill Emptiness With Food
Dessert Spoon The photographer Chadwick Taylor took a series of images around America, its heartland dream. Dessert Spoon, the subject will never fill their emptiness with food. Unaware or unwilling to admit that it’s an illusion crated through movies and…
Majorettes At Rest Between Performances
Majorettes Marching, twirling batons in front of a crowd of people. As a warm-up act for a sport that is played by boys, something they consciously choose, are they trapped in some other world not of their making? Maybe one…
Scoreboard Where All Dreams Realize Or Die
Scoreboard Watching to see if the call goes in your favour. Breathless expectation, did they in fact decide whether it was going to be an individual or your team on that final decision made by the referee, where your dreams…
Small Mirror: What Is Your Phone, After All?
Small Mirror What is your phone after all but a mirror? So the next time you forget to grab it and find yourself in the bathroom, what else have you got to do but actually find that small mirror, stare,…