Friday, February 28, 2014

Earth, Wind, Fire and Water #2


I'm happy to unveil my newest Earth, Wind, Fire and Water study,
which I have done on a very small scale, at only 4" x 4" each.
However, the level of detail in these paintings is almost as much
(or more) than I put in to the previous larger EWFW series.

What I am hoping to do with these elemental paintings as they progress,
is portray these elements in visual ways that may be 
recognizable a first glance as what they are intended to be, 
but not because they are relying on visual cliches,
the more common visual cues commonly used 
to portray the elements. 

I am attempting to avoid these visual cliches of the 
elements altogether, and portray them in a ways that 
call attention to their similarities, more than their differences.

There is a fluidity throughout the paintings, 
that speaks to the fluidity of all things in time, 
especially the elements, which each unfold with their
turbulently chaotic fractal waves of organic perfection.

All is fluid. Regard the Earth, mountains, glaciers, 
forests, vast oceans, rolling around in a perfect sphere in outer space.


Please contact me directly for info on prices. 
Beautiful canvas giclee prints will be 
available soon at affordable prices!


Earth, Wind, Fire and Water 2
Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4"
(displayed as designed, vertically)


Water 2
Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4"


 Fire 2
Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4"


Wind 2
Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4"


Earth 2
Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4"



Earth, Wind, Fire and Water 2
Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4" each
(displayed horizontally)


Earth, Wind, Fire and Water 2
Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4" each
(displayed squared)

"All is fluid. Regard the Earth, mountains, glaciers, 
forests, vast oceans, rolling around in a perfect sphere in outer space.

The Earth can convulse and reinvent itself in a heartbeat.

Can you see the Wind? Emerging from the confluences of hot and cold
air, flowing around our planet in graceful sweeping, spirally 
fractals of unfolding 'weather' as we call it? 

The Wind can make the biggest city vanish in a heartbeat.

The Fire, our ally, in colder climes we perish without it.
It flows upward, away, crackling, hissing and whining, licking the open air 
hungrily, it seeks to expand through complex pockets and currents
of different temperatures of air. 

Fire can destroy everything in its path, instantly.

The Water. What else is there? Who are we but?
Oceans surround us, unfathomable in their depth, we know little 
of the oceans true nature. 

The enormity of Water's consciousness.

Water's infinite interconnected flowing 
heaving life giving network
of countless individual drops,
each one capable of storing 
more information than 
a million blueray discs....

The Water sees all. Is All. 
We are it. It is us. 






Thursday, February 27, 2014

Some newly completed paintings that have been 'in progress' for a long, long time. Finally.

Newly completed works




 Kathy's Gaia
Commissioned by my sister Kathy
Acrylic on canvas, 20" x 16"




'Welcome to Hyperspace'
Acrylic on canvas, 8" x 6"





Saturday, February 15, 2014

Some drawings.....

This is a small collection 
of eclectic drawings, 
from imagination only,
that were done in the last year.




Conversation #1



Shaman #1




Shaman #2



Martini with a friend

Converstation 


Alien

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Earth, Wind, Fire and Water

Last year when I had an exhibit of my recent work and works in progress, I was 
approached by a close friend and long-time animation colleague of mine, to create
a series of four commissioned paintings depicting Earth, Wind, Fire and Water.

I will be delivering these soon, and I am quite happy with them.
Prints will be available, and I am happy to start take orders. 
They can be printed on high quality paper or canvas.
'Gicle's are printed on canvas and look
almost as good as the original art.


Earth 
acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12"



Wind
acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12"



Fire
acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12"



Water
acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12"



Earth, Wind, Fire and Water


Tuesday, February 11, 2014

A small collection of some of my smaller paintings, some are three years old, some are only three or four weeks old.

The following paintings are selected from several 
different phases of my last three year journey into painting.

I am attempting to capture, through traditional fine art 
painting techniques the very essence of 'Elemental Magic' 
that informed the special effects animation I created in 
my past creative manifestation 
as a Disney animator.

The originals are for sale, 
and I will have prints available soon,
please inquire joegilland@shaw.ca



Fluid Base 1
Pencil and acrylic on canvas, 2011
8" x 10"


Fluid Base 3
Acrylic on canvas, 2012
8" x 10"



Fluid Base 4
Acrylic on canvas, 2012
8" x 10"



Fluid Base 68
Pencil and acrylic on linen, 2014
10" x 12"



Leaving Gaia
Acrylic on linen, 2013
10" x 12



Organic Base 1
Acrylic on canvas, 2011
8" x 10"