BOASTY CROW (2016) by Michael Whelan, week 33 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
A black brush-swipe of acrylic paint turned into a cartoon crow.
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JABBA’S ACCOUNTANT (2016) by Michael Whelan, week 32 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
This is literally the top sheet on my most recent pad of palette paper. I’ve been using a lot of blues lately!
Just a riff on some paint smears again. Smooshy magenta blobs looked like rhino ears to me, and well…
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TRIPPING ON BOSCH (2016) by Michael Whelan, week 31 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
From a sheet off one of my palette pads. I use those gray paper palettes a lot as they are a fine surface for mixing acrylics and the gray surface better enables me to judge relative values of colors I’m blending.
The different subjects aren’t meant to tell a story or look connected in any way. They’re just sketches riffing on smudges of mixed paint.
It could be the one on the top right was influenced by seeing JAWS on cable channels virtually all summer long. It’s a perennial summer favorite apparently!
When I swiped a blending brush on the paper it made a shape that said “Land shark!” to me, for some reason. This one is rather Bosch-y, though, having feathery bits and legs and all.
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The newsletter is coming tomorrow morning. Framed Whelan originals starting at $150. Yes, you read that right. ~MJA preview of the first LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS original art by Michael Whelan that we will be offering on his website later this week.
Often when Michael has paint left over from a work in progress, he will do a small doodle or sketch. A good one may lead to a full scale painting or turn out to be fun on its own.
The gremlins spring from random shapes he sees in the paint on his palette or the mat board that protects his drawing table. We post one each Wednesday in the News section of the website and later on Facebook and Tumblr.
These are not finished works and are priced accordingly. They are custom-framed and ready for hanging—a great opportunity to own an original Whelan at a great price!
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A preview of the first LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS original art by Michael Whelan that we will be offering on his website later this week.
Often when Michael has paint left over from a work in progress, he will do a small doodle or sketch. A good one may lead to a full scale painting or turn out to be fun on its own.
The gremlins spring from random shapes he sees in the paint on his palette or the mat board that protects his drawing table. We post one each Wednesday in the News section of the website and later on Facebook and Tumblr.
These are not finished works and are priced accordingly. They are custom-framed and ready for hanging—a great opportunity to own an original Whelan at a great price!
Sign up for our email newsletter to keep up to date on our latest gallery offerings.
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UNTITLED by Michael Whelan, week 30 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
Once again, I found myself with a dollop of Raw Umber and a couple of other colors remaining on a palette I had been using; a couple of suggestive smears of paint became a springboard into my imagination. I felt like doing something with an SF feel to it as a departure from the more fantasy-related themes I’ve been doing lately.
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TRUST (2016) by Michael Whelan, week 28 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
Acrylic - 12" x 16"
The masonite board I had been using became a painting which fits a theme begun with “Leap of Faith” and runs through “Winging it” and other paintings.
The bonus images start with a shot of the board on my drawing table before I started to transform it. I turned it upside down and decided to use the diagonal line as my starting point.
As it developed, I liked how it was turning out and decided to finish it to a level that would allow me to add it to the pieces that will be in my show at the Tree’s Place Gallery, opening August 13th.
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TANGLEWOOD (2016) by Michael Whelan, week 27 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
Even though this leftover has a Hobbit in it, it’s not related to any story. It’s just what I felt like painting two nights ago.
The oil paint was left on my palette from a session spent trying to visualize the Witchwood trees in Tad Williams’ forthcoming new novel in the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. I often turn to oils when I’m playing around with shapes, as the medium allows me to push and pull the paint around until I sense something beginning to work for me.
I wasn’t entirely successful in that effort, which is why I put a little more “oomph” into the leftover than I normally would; I wanted to go to bed that night feeling a sense of accomplishment.
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UNTITLED by Michael Whelan, week 26 in his week 26 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
Recently, I’ve been working on a painting with a lot of greens in it for an upcoming show at Tree’s Place. As is usual for me, some of the paint got on my drawing table, right in a square that I had cut out of the mat board and filled in already. While waiting for a section of my full-sized painting to dry, I fiddled around with the square of color. After some time, this little scene took shape.
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UNTITLED by Michael Whelan, week 25 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS 2016 gallery project.
This one is done in black acrylic gesso on a sheet of palette paper. I must have been thinking of “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” when I sketched it, using a brush that still had some pigment on it after coating a piece of illustration board.
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