Pictures from the Portland show
Jun/100
Here’s some pics from my show this past week at the Poster Garden in Portland, OR. It was a pretty successful event, with over 200 attending… even though it rained (of course). It was nice to be inside, I felt bad for the artists who were outside on the sidewalks! I understand that if the weather was nice, there would have been close to a thousand visitors! So, maybe it’s worth it to try to do it again later in the summer.
But, met some really nice people, made some new friends – other artists here in Portland, and got lots of compliments! A fun show!
Upcoming gallery shows
May/101
Avalon Gallery
May 21 – End of June (and maybe beyond)
- A brand new gallery opening in Battle Ground, WA. It’s located in the Battle Ground Village. If you know where the new library is, it’s in the same turn-about there. Nice two story gallery, great space. I’m going to have 5 paintings showing here.
May 21 is the grand opening.. Mayor will attend & ribbon cutting, refreshments, all that. Free date if you’re looking for a nice night out!!
The Poster Garden
June 3 – store / gallery space, downtown Portland in the Pearl. This is a one-night only showing, a first Thursday event. I should have 4-5 paintings there..
630 NW 14th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
BYU illustration alumni show
June 18 – in Provo, This is a combined show of all the alumni from the illustration program at BYU. We’re each allowed to put in 1 painting… it’s going to be a big show filling 3 different galleries on campus. Supposed to run from June 18 – July 14.
We’ll be traveling out there for the opening on the weekend of the 18th. Love to see any Utah friends in the area!
A little detour into fantasy
Mar/100
I’ve been itching a little to work on a fantasy painting, so this is my first real shot.. probably a bit strange, and not sure how successful it is. It started out as an idea of a figure crouched atop a rock, in a tall vertical format, lowering something – to accentuate and play with the tall & vertical feeling. But I wasn’t really sure what the story would be – or what exactly he would be lowering. I just liked the compositional idea.
The composition didn’t quite come together the way I would have liked – I think the canvas actually should be even narrower for the image I saw in my head. I thought about cropping it in even more – but then I had the idea to add in the rock tower on the left, and that seems to help get at what I wanted to do. But it’s not perfect. However I do like how I handled the background with the muted & lighter tones… I’ve been wanting to do something like that for a while too.
My son Aidan modeled for the figure – and I took some shots of myself also. The rock tower is from Camp Baldwin earlier this summer, and the water is from Eagle creek, in Oregon. The dragon is from eagle creek too – a secret enchanted spot that I can’t reveal.
Gallery on conceptArt.com
Dec/090
Finally added my art gallery up to ConceptArg.com. I didn’t realize that was free and fairly simple. Their site has a few php glitches but I was able to make it work..
http://www.conceptart.org/index.php?artist=wheelercreek&cat=updated
I actually debated being part of that site for a long time. There’s so much absolutely amazing work up there, really phenomenal, but also there’s a lot of sex/violence and offensive content. Well, I guess you just need to use your own judgment in what you look at…
As an artist I take a lot of inspiration in seeing what other artists are doing, in terms of light, color, characters costuming, all kinds of things.. but I’m aware that I have to be really careful too because of the standards I’m trying to live by.
