The play has opened and the press reviews are in with mentions of Global Mechanic’s very own Bruce Alcock! Great work everyone!
The Toronto Sun
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As you can see, the paintings are almost done now. They’re brightening up the studio downstairs. It’s really quite beautiful to see them all lined up whith the sunlight passing through the bamboo blinds. The paintings are beginning to feel more like a cohesive set with a common language of blobs, sepia washes, dense line-work and a tendency toward flatness in lieu of modeling and light-rendering. The next time we update on the Vive La Rose paintings, you’ll be seeing the finished product! Don’t forget that the finished paintings will be showing (along with a screening of Vive La Rose) at the Christina Parker Gallery, in conjunction with the Nickel Film Festival and the 15th biannual Sound [...] It appears as though Bruce is starting to finish some of these paintings. Check out the figure-drawing on the two fish pictures. Beautiful. And what about those water pictures? They’re looking mighty wet! We can see that Bruce has added quite a bit of turpentine to the potatoes to try and get that watercolor effect in the boiling potatoes painting. To get the effect of the steam, he’s used a drybrush with white paint. He’s also added sepia washes to the paintings of the woman to tone down the candy pink backgrounds. Next Bruce plans on adding some punch to the cod jigger and finishing the figures in the piano scene. The finished paintings will be showing (along with a screening of Vive La Rose) at the Christina Parker Gallery, in [...] It looks like Bruce is close to finishing some of these paintings. He’s switching it up as he goes, adding cold wax medium to a few of the paintings of the woman (steam moving over the extreme close-up of her eyes and nose bridge, for her whole body to differentiate it from the other figures in the piano scene and in her hair for the face close-up). He then dragged water-diluted india ink over the wax for a nice resist look. It appears as though the fish are getting fishier now, with indigo oil-bar line work watered with turpentine, plus a little ochre. You can see in the photos that the Vancouver Spring is shining through the windows giving the studio area around Bruce’s painting project a comfortable glow. The finished paintings will be showing (along with [...] More sketches coming your way from Nathaniel Akin, Bruce Alcock, Michael Mann and Justin Longoz. It’s a veritable grab-bag of stylistic fun-a-ma-jigs! Take a look see: |
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