art by beaston

Tiger scat blackberry background

2010-12-23T12:36:00.002-05:00

320X240 It'll fit at least the blackberry curve.

The rest from "Strange Things..."

2010-12-14T12:08:00.003-05:00

Voyageur
30X60"
Acrylic on canvas

Mom's Comin' 'Round to Put it Back the Way it Oughtta be
18X24"
Acrylic on canvas

Escape
10X10"
Acrylic on canvas

Arctic Char
24X48"
Acrylic on canvas

From "Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun"
at Show and Tell Gallery
The final piece from the show is in the post under this one.

OCTOBER 7 -31 SHOW&TELL GALLERY

2010-10-05T11:53:00.001-04:00

Upcoming: Graham Robinson - Strange Things Done In The Midnight Sun

Running concurrently in the project gallery, a solo exhibition by Graham Robinson.

Robinson takes his artistic inspiration from classic scenes of Canadiana. An avid adventurer, his paintings and illustrations are inspired by his travels across Northern Canada. Robinson works with a skewed and somewhat surreal approach to memories past where wanigans, barrels, canoes, and paddles all appear in familiar yet fictitious stages. His work often contains fable like narratives which reflect on the solidarity of the human psyche and consider the fragile state of our natural environment.

Graham Robinson was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1987. He is currently enrolled at the Ontario College of Art and Design and has exhibited his work in galleries across North America since the age of 17.

Graham Robinson "Follow What I Say, Not What I've Done", Acrylic On Canvas, 24" x 18", 2010

Graham Robinson

Strange Things Done In The Midnight Sun

October 7th - October 31st 2010

www.showandtellgallery.com

Latimeria Chalumnae

2010-06-02T01:43:00.001-04:00

Brush and ink with photoshop colours.

Arctic Char

2010-05-16T15:35:00.002-04:00

Brush&Ink coloured in photoshop.

I want to do this as a poster.

**editI just made a couple changes to the bottom fins and some little tweaks on the colour/levels

Fish tanks!

2010-04-21T13:27:00.006-04:00

El Hefe the Fahaka puffer all stressed and puffing. nothing in the tank to provoke him so we just figure he's practicing.

sand tank 20 gal 2 fresh water flounder and (temporarily) my betta
filter is an AquaClear 50 power filter (it does a great job on a tank with as little waste as this one)

Puffer tank 40 gal just the one fahaka puffer and a couple peices of malaysian wood.
filter is an Eheim Professional 2222.

community tank 30 gal 2 gourmis, a leopard ctenopoma, 2 pleccos(gibiceps is getting too big though) a black tetra (only remaining fish from my very first set up) a clon loach, a sumo loach, and a malaysian fan shrimp. tank is alos planted with crypts and a few amazon swords. malaysian wood bits as well. filter is an Eheim Classic 2213.

all the tanks are freshwater.

Eheim pro 2222 canister filter

111 minna gallery

2010-04-15T11:38:00.002-04:00

Codependent Enabler 11x14" acrylic on matte board (framed)

Cleaning Crew 12x16" acrylic on canvas

these two along with family wagon are being shipped out to http://www.111minnagallery.com/
for a groupshow on may 6th in san francisco

Family Wagon

2010-04-13T09:07:00.001-04:00

Family Wagon 10x30" acrylic on canvas

this one along with 2 others will be heading to 111Minna Gallery in San Francisco

Jess Hogge Textiles

2010-04-10T21:15:00.005-04:00

Please check out Jessica Hogge's page on ICRAFT.CA she is very tallented and her work is as much art as it is fashionable.

http://icraft.ca/jdhdesigns

visit the link and take the time to look at the variety of stuff she has up. she has mostly women's accesories but she also does men's ties. she's open to commission work for specific things as well.

I've added an image of a silk tie, a women's headband and a wool/silk brooch

you can also find her at www.jdhd.deviantart.com

please take the time to check out an artist whos field is greatly underappreciated.

Terrebonne

2010-02-27T16:06:00.003-05:00

'Terrebonne' 40x30" acrylic on canvas

My take on a Marinoni bicycle.

Canadian Shield

2010-02-18T15:31:00.004-05:00

Canadian Shield
24"x18" acrylic on canvas caribou

Colville Lake

2010-02-13T18:47:00.004-05:00

Colville Lake 36X36" acrylic on canvas.
in the possesion of Mike MacMillan and Cindy Edwards.

The Barn 10x12" acrylic on canvas.
for a trade with an artist/toy-maker named Shira Haberman, www.singingumbrella.blogspot.com

New work at Well and Good

2010-01-30T15:25:00.005-05:00

"Fortysix & Two" or "The Old Canoes"
18x24" Acrylic on canvas

For sale at Well and Good (www.wellandgood.ca) located at 52 McCaul st. Toronto.
(Just south of OCAD)

If ever in the are please take 5 minutes and step inside. Lisa and Steve are two of the kindest most welcoming people you'll ever meet. They also show work from Juan Carlos Noria, Patrick Thompson, Elicser, Gene Starship Pendon, DSTRBO, and many more as well as a bunch of OCAD students too.

it's a great place.

DDR Projects

2009-12-14T15:20:00.003-05:00

Custodian 8x10" acrylic on canvas

Tengu 18x18" acrylic on canvas

I have these two peices up at DDR projects in LA. www.ddrprojects.com

Breakfast

2009-12-07T21:45:00.003-05:00

18x24" acrylic on canvas
up at well and good 52 mccaul st toronto
www.wellandgood.ca

Coureur Des Bois

2009-12-03T00:53:00.004-05:00

"Coureur Des Bois: Centre Flip" 20x24" Acrylic on canvas.
"Coureur Des Bois: Wanigan" 20x24" Acrylic on canvas.

These Two will be up at Show & Tell Gallery in Toronto from December 12th till January 29th
check out the ad in this month's Juxtapoz to see what one of my paintings looks like just a tiny bit bigger than a postage stamp.

You in Reverse / Paddlers

2009-11-12T00:11:00.003-05:00

two new digital peices. I ve been having fun with photoshop again, trying some new stuff and trying to break away from my usual subjectmatter its nice to push myself.

i'm terrible at drawing women, its easier i think to draw ugly things, much harder and you have to use half the lines you normally would to draw women, its something im determined to get better at, no more shying away from stuff that will actually make me better in the end.

thanks for stopping by.

Teraodon Lineatus

2009-10-08T19:36:00.001-04:00

for sale at canteen gallery in ottawa.
fahaka puffer acrylic on panel. 9"x 12"

Razor Ramon

2009-06-22T11:13:00.002-04:00

this one will be in a show in july at La Petite Mort Gallery in ottawa. it's a two person show with a great american artist named bill stillman http://sbart4alivin.deviantart.com/

bill planned the show and asked me to come in with him . it should be a nice 'melange'.

this painting is 18"x24" acrylic on canvas it's titled razor ramon.

new friends

2009-05-22T00:48:00.002-04:00

These are my new fish. they are figure 8 puffers {tetraodon biocellatus} they are brackish water puffers. just babies now pretty much, theyre about an inch long {i have 5 in a 20 gallon tank} but they'll grow to about 3-4" within about a year.

they're eating a bloodworm cube here. as you can see they get very fat when they eat and must be watched that they don't get over fed. they also eat snails and shrimp and other small crustations and have to eat these shelled animals to keep their beaks filled down.

they have so much personality and charm. charisma might be the word to use.

the sound might be really really bad, its a video from a small coolpix. appologies

return of the mighty salmon

2009-05-16T11:09:00.003-04:00

I had to paint another salmon. the last one was way too small. the one on the 'delicatessen' peice. this one was alot more fun. i painted over a canvas that had 2 prior "false-starts" underneath. it made the canvas very smooth almost no grain anymore. i might try some paintings on wood in the future. seems like it might be a good change of pace from working on canvas, i could cut out peices as well and shape the wood.

will be up with another painting in the UNLOAD groupshow @ La petite mort gallery in ottawa
june12th 7pm www.lapetitemortgallery.com

biciclette

2009-05-12T19:47:00.002-04:00

just finished this one today, it took a lot longer than i'd originally thought it would. the wheels were very time consuming. im already working on another right now, redesigning the bike a bit and making improvements. i thought this unusual spoke layout would look better than it does, i thought that the colour changes would sell it better but i see now that it looks a bit lazy, either way its the bike i designed and im sure that it it were ever built it would look great . its based on an old bianchi my dad has from the 70's. i love that colour they used for those bikes, i tried my best. notice i kept the gears on my bike heheh, no trendy "Fixies" 'round here.

22" x 30" acrylic on canvas.

steak, salmon and a canoe and a cat.

2009-04-04T20:30:00.003-04:00

Raul 20"x 24" acrylic on canvas $400
Delicatessen 18" x 24" acrylic on canvas NFS

i have been away from this blog for way to long i have not abandoned it , i am here working away.

these two are the newest canvases ive done, i have other work on different surface coming soon as well. i've been trying to push myself now, calling myself out "is that the best i can do? or is it me copping out?" most of the time i can go back in and make it better but i still like that "first-try-awkwardness" that you get when youre either really loose or really off that day , or maybe that's just me.

i got to use a big fancy digital slr to shoot these pictures, it makes so much more of a difference that i can't believe it.

2008-11-17T10:36:00.002-05:00

This was fun i did it while i was on the phone, i don't really know what else to say about it. its kind of one of those things where either you get me or you don't. the paper is from google and i "computered" it.

This one will be up at norml clothing in ottawa for roughly the next month. 12"x12" acrylic on canvas "stuck". beASTON 2008
this guy will be joining his friend above there at noml. 18"x24" acrylic on canvas "this fair maid gives me a nosebleed".

day-job-work has taken alot of the jam out of my doughnut if you know what i mean. these two plus a few more little watercolours are the only ones ive done recently, well theres one more little thing that i'll post soon. but ive had a heck of a time trying to get some work done.

three old ladies are sitting on a bench in the park. suddenly, a man in a long trenchcoat and dark glasses runs in front of them and tears open his jacket. two of the old ladies have a stroke. the third one wouldn't touch it.

i'm in the kind of mood today where i want to se someone i don't like poop their pants in front of someone they look up to. hahahahha.their idol, or someone they have a crush on. poopy pants broken hearts, and enough tears to drown a cute kitten.

glip..........HOSS! !SSOH..........pilg
beaston out tuo notsaeb

2008-09-24T16:26:00.003-04:00

A new shot of "Plate O' Shrimp" better than that last one that i copied from facebook eh?

"A lot of people don't realize what's really goin' on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this like lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. I'll give you an example. Show you what I mean. Suppose you're thinkin' about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say like "Plate" or "Shrimp" or "Plate of shrimp" out of the blue no explanation. No point lookin' for one either. It's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness.
...I think a lot about this kind of stuff. Do my best thinkin' on the bus. That's howcome I dont drive, see?
... I don't wanna know how. I don't wanna learn. The more you drive... the less intelligent you are."

Up in the Burroughes Building at Well and Good Artspace Toronto, Ontario.
It's "Us & THEM" a group show with THEM.CA 'till september 30th only.
www.them.ca
www.burroughesbuilding.com
www.beaston.deviantart.com

plate o' shrimp

2008-09-16T09:51:00.004-04:00

The last peice in my coverall series.{I'll upload a better shot of it soon} this is the first one actualy, i did this one and decided to keep going with the idea about a month after this one was done.

acrlylic on vintage skateboard. {i did the wheels too}

all 3 {"stockingstitch...", "outfit" and this one "plate o' shrimp" wil be up in the "us & them" show in toronto

"stocking stitch with mutated female custodian and can fire"

2008-09-14T10:39:00.003-04:00

acrylic on canvas 18" x 24"

this'll be at the "us and them" group show in toronto on the 19th of sept. 8pm at the burroughes building 639 queen st. @ bathurst. www.burroughesbuilding.com 3rd floor

the show is for the ten year anniversary of an art group i am a part of called THEM [link]

the "OUTFIT" peice i did [link] and another painting on a vintage longboard be there so this one doesnt get lonely.

i'll post photos of the board very soon.

Every Extend Extra Extreme

2008-09-10T10:19:00.003-04:00

My new favourite thing. Thank you XBoxLive Arcade! just a screen shot from google, this isn't me playing.

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Outfit

2008-08-19T16:47:00.004-04:00

This is a costume I made {decorated I guess.} Trying to bring my artwork to life a little more. Now I can become my characters. Jess modeled for me as well {She looks so fucking bad ass.}

Done with acrylic and fabric medium on the work suit. The eyepatch is made from pleather and was embellished with embroidery floss.

This was one of the most fun projects I've done. I want to do more. Next will be a pair of painter's pants.

I'll be wearing this thing at the Them.ca 10 year anniversary show in toronto.
Be back with more details on that later.

There will also be a painting that acompnies this peice I'll upload pictures later on also.

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These two paintings are available at
Seth Carmichael Gallery { www.sethcarmichael.com } in Los Angeles.

Good prices with alot of love put into them. These are the first peices of mine ever to make it across the border.

space pirate

2008-07-07T17:32:00.002-04:00

Sometimes I think of all the places I don't wanna go
Then I think of all the things I never wanna do
Think of all the people I never wanna meet
Close my eyes I go to sleep

DUUUUH . . .

From a photo of the Puppy Love show at Petite Mort. Just something for fun, I had't done any work in a while. This was a good way to get thinking about a painting i have to do soon. It might not be too much like this when it's done but i got to laugh alot. i love silly faces.

BLEAGH!!

Puppy Love Group show @ LPM

2008-06-11T20:58:00.005-04:00

All 4 together on the wall

Conventional Wisdom

A Dog And A Man Falling Out Of The Sky

Explorer From Outer Space

this past friday was the opening of the Puppy Love group show at La Petite Mort Gallery in Ottawa.

ive got some pictures of the other 3 paintings i had in it. all are acrylic on canvas and 12" x 12".

Malachi Crunch

2008-06-03T12:45:00.002-04:00

A new one in a series of 4 paintings I am doing for La Petite Mort's show "Puppy Love".

The show opens June 6th for more info visit www.lapetitemortgallery.com

Malachi Crunch 12x12" acrylic on canvas

2008-04-03T12:35:00.001-04:00

people have more fun than anybody

2008-02-07T10:53:00.000-05:00

i am terrible at having a blog. i never find the time to post. here is a new peice i did on the computer.

the characters were done with ink and the colours were added using the computer.

i'm trying hard to add more colour to my work i felt like a had a real boring dull pallette before and im trying my best to break away from that and try new colours out, stop being so safe , you know?

the title is taken from a james thurber book of the same name. my dad loves short stories like that or saki or o henry , old hurmor writers, those guys are hillarious. so we always had those books around the house, the title doesnt event really make sense, thats the kind of stuff i like.

to see some very amazing illustration work check out the book the 13 clocks also written by james thurber.

smashing of the glass an imperfect perfect sound

2007-12-09T20:18:00.000-05:00

small drawing done with brush and ink then coloured using photoshop.

petty

2007-11-10T00:23:00.000-05:00

A drawing of Tom Petty. A sketch for a bigger painting that will be in a rock and roll show this month at La Petite Mort Gallery. http://www.lapetitemortgallery.com/

trains

2007-10-09T21:53:00.000-04:00

This is a character idea for a project that's getting under way at school. I'll be doing four illustrations depicting a scene from a novel, I forget who wrote the story but it takes place on the New York subway. I have two more characters to design and an actual drawing of the train car.

This was drawn with brush and ink, the colours were added in Photoshop and the photo was from Google.

more to come soon

F O G

2007-10-05T01:10:00.000-04:00

It got pretty foggy today.

"studio"

2007-09-27T18:05:00.000-04:00

This is my work area right now. A couple of coffee tables in my livingroom.

I work alot in front of the tv, it seems like itd be distracting but I really like the background noise. As you can see there's not a whole lot of materials I use. one brush and some scraps of paper or old pop cans to put my ink on, and thats pretty much it. Pencils and pen nibs i guess, and all my paints which are put away because im not doing any painting right now.

FIGHT HAT !

2007-09-26T07:49:00.000-04:00

This is a stupid idea my friend Derrick and I came up with. A hat that one would wear only to fight and it'd just say "FIGHT!" on the bottom of the brim. We had a few laughs about it.
The drawing I did in inks and then I coloured it in photoshop.