painting

Ariel and Sharon Family Crest /  by Gaelan

This summer I saw two very close friends get married which (obviously) means art projects! Step one: A new family crest. Sure, it's a bit goofy, and yeah I have no explanation for the tentacles, but just think how annoyed it will make their descendents!

The next part of the gift I did with a small group of the newlyweds close friends. The idea was for each of us to give them a part of a dining set. Mrs. Levenson handled the cutlery, Mrs. Anatrone provided the napkins, Mrs. Findlay the contracts and I provided the plates.

These are the plates stacked. (Again with the tentacles, I know). Each plate has a Roman numeral on it and when they are stacked in the right way they reveal the year of the wedding, or spell something unpronounceable. Here are the four un-stacked.

For more wedding illustration see my Custom Wedding Illustration page.

Robots and Fruit /  by Gaelan

Straw-botty, To-bot-o and Botccoli
Robots and Fruit started as a side desk sketch project in watercolor and ink. These are the next phase of that idea, painted in acrylic on a (slightly) larger surface. These three paintings were made as a donation to the Lakewood Cooperative Preschooll's annual school auction (where they were bought and whisked out of my life). They are fun to paint and pretty quick to finish so I may have more in the pipeline. 

The Tapes in my Glove box /  by Gaelan

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Here is another painting from the past, and really the one that started a whole series. This painting is of all the tapes that I had in the glove box of my first car (little red CRX). It's pretty much a self portrait. Most of the tapes are mixes that various friends had made me over the years, I tried to copy their handwriting as well as I could. A few of tapes on here are side A and side B, mostly because I needed to fill the whole canvass.

Our house at 415 Creekside Way /  by Gaelan

This is the house that I grew up in. It didn't always look like this though, it's been in a constant state of flux since before I was born. My parents bought the original cabin (pictured in the upper right corner) in the 70's and have been building and tweaking and adding and rebuilding ever since. Mostly this work is done by my father but as soon as me and my siblings were old enough to hold a hammer we were put to work on it as well. People have been born in this house and people have died in this house. I think it may be my father's greatest art project, in fact it holds so many memories that I just didn't have the space to include them all. What I have included are some of the greatest hits that my brothers and sister remember. For a detail of the legend click here. Also, a detail of the livingroom and kitchen. Some day I will do a Part 2 of this painting (the back of the house and back yard) but I will defiantly need a bigger piece of paper!