Sunday, February 28, 2010

One For Summer While February Is Snowing On Us In Ottawa

 

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Hi Every Olympic Hockey Fan and You 2,

It was getting to feel like the dark dead of winter a couple weeks ago so I bought a couple larger canvases and decided to paint the antidote for February Cabin Fever Daze . . . warm colourful summer !

 

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Detail 40” x 32” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond

 

I used ample amounts of magenta to achieve the warm radiance in this painting.  It has  green and blue Payne's but the overall feeling is certainly warm.

The magenta red was applied first on a large area because I really wanted it to be dominant.  I then added a little of this and a little of that.  When I noticed how delicate the very bottom turned out at the first application of paint I decided to let it remain.  It looked too lovely.  The rest would be a counterpoint to that delicate colour.  I do enjoy the double line I crated during the under  coat stage.  I intended that to contain the Payne's blue when it would be applied.  Some Payne's was added to the top area to put that in balance with the lower area and I added some gold too.  There is an area at the top left corner where some of the lines created by undercoating and my initial application of colour turn back toward the center of the painting.  There I added a little more Payne's and gold to help that happen.  The eye travels left to right along the upper diagonal but it is turned back toward the center by some curved and vertical lines at the far right top created by texture and colour.  I am happy with the result.  It warms my winter daze.  (p.s. these paintings are 4sale)

 

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detail 40” x 32” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond

 

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And here below is in part why I painted this series which includes the painting posted in the previous blog entry.

We have had a relatively benign winter with little snow in Ottawa.  Thanks to the Ocean currents and all that Nina stuff the snow storms are hitting Washington. 

Sorry Senor Obama but your White House was meant to take on  new meaning this term.

 

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Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada;  This is the eternal flame and Peace Tower  and Parliament on the snowy evening of February 25, 2010

It is snowing. It is a nice wet, windy winter evening.

Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Thursday February 25, 2010.

 

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A contented couple in the evening on Wellington St., Ottawa, Canada

 

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Detail of 40” x 32” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond

 

 

40” x 32” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond

 

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Above; details of 40” x 32” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond

 

And here are some lines from a song I wrote once on a dark winter day.

 

Springtime shall heal our weary hearts

There is nothing that the Spring shall not heal

 

When the purple hued crocuses rise through white crystal snow

Our weary hearts shall be healed

When the newness-green leaves of grass are spread all around

Our weary hearts shall be healed

 

Our love is the sunshine that warms the world-weary face

Once more return to the bubbling laughter of the Wild Spring

 

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John Redmond

Ottawa, Canada

 

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

February; Out Of The Dark Night Into The Light

Or As Hurc Might Say . . . ”OLYMPIAAAAAAAAA . . . !”
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40” x 32” x 1/2” acrylic on stretched canvas by John R Redmond

Hello Everyone,

Late January is passed and now we here in Canada are zooming out of the darkness into the light.  Olympic games are cheering folks and I decided to do some paintings as an antidote to the cabin-fever-daze.


The Galerie 240, Ottawa show ‘Looking Back’ which features some of my paintings is still up and available for viewing.  You can see more about that toward the end of this posting or head back to earlier postings.


First I prepared two 40” x 32” x 1/2” pre-primed canvases with layers of white textured undercoating then I applied the fluid acrylic colour.  A brush rarely touches the canvas.  I dribble, spatter, and  spray pour the colour and allow the fluid motion of the waterborne paint to be my technique.  Sometimes I move the canvas around to let the paint flow in a manner that pleases me.  Occasionally I will soak up some water with cloth of tissue.  I react to what happens on the canvas and add layers of colour as the situation moves me.  Mine is a planned spontaneity.  Things happen on the canvas accidentally on purpose.


This piece has a landscape look.


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Detail of 40” x 32” x 1/2” abstract acrylic painting  on stretched canvas by John R Redmond



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Detail of 40” x 32” x 1/2” abstract acrylic painting  on stretched canvas by John R Redmond


Below are lyrics to a song I wrote in late 2007.  Perhaps it will help you to roll out of the February northern night.


Out of the light
Into the black night
With fearless life
Roll on light of dawn
We were long before you shone
Flowing field, enraptured dream
Fathomless, edgeless, mysterious stream
Long...
Out of the light
Into the black night
With fearless life
Together we dance, together we fly
Together we laugh, laugh at the sky
Tetherless possessions to bind
Rock free forever; cradle mind
We . . .
Out of the light
Into the black night
With fearless life


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Ten thousand faces, crowded direction
Salut the tree of our reflection
Gypsy vision strumming a world play
Footprint in silence, trekking a fire way
Salut . . .
Out of the light
Into the black night
With fearless life


 
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Detail of 40” x 32” x 1/2” abstract acrylic painting  on stretched canvas by John R Redmond



40” x 32” x 1/2” acrylic on stretched canvas by John R Redmond

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The new show at Galerie 240  opened in early January 2010.  I’ll post some photos of the Vernissage in a near future blog posting.


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One of Tom Wilson’s paintings is ‘Looking Back’ with three of my 72” x 30” x 1/2” panels.


‘Looking Back’
Artists whose work will be on display
include;
Tom Wilson,
John R Redmond,
Debabrata Murkerji. Jeanne Wilkinson,
Eamon, Karl Ciesluk, Leona Brown,
Banna M Khalesi, Zdravko Jolic,
Matthew Kennedy, Brenda Gale Warner.

The show at Galerie 240 located in the market area of downtown Ottawa runs through mid- March 2010.

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Galerie 240
Representing fine Canadian & International Artists

For more information: 240 Guigues Avenue, Ottawa Canada K1N 5J2
613.680.0866
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You will find Galerie 240 located at 240 Guigues Ave. at King Edward Ave. in the market area.  You cannot enter Guigues Ave. from King Edward.  Galerie 240 is in a house built circa 1870. Located on the South side of Guigues, it has a nice big front porch.

Below is a bird’s eye view.

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Galerie 240 is in the center of the above photo. Click on the map or bird’s eye view for more map info.




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Three of John R Redmond’s 72” x 30” x 1/2” acrylic paintings hanging in Galerie 240 in 2010.  Flow Motion carries on.


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Acrylic paintings by John R Redmond at Galerie 240, Ottawa
 


 
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See you at Galerie 240
or maybe on Mount Olympus,


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John Redmond
Ottawa, Canada


 
John Redmond Art