each: 40" x 30", oil on canvas, 2005, NFS (recycled) Happy Earth Day! I did these two paintings live in front of an audience while my friends (in their band at the time, Uncle Seth ) played raucous rock music. It was part of a regular event in Kensington Market in Toronto called Pedestrian Sundays , where various streets in the neighbourhood are closed to cars so people can walk, bike, dance, skip, and/or frolic about freely (click that link for much more info). So my friends set up their gear on the sidewalk underneath Krista's then-apartment above the then-egg-shop on Augusta Ave. and I set up my gear just off to the side. I roughed-in the pencils for these paintings beforehand so I would have some kind of guide and then went at it with the paints while the band played and people watched. It was a lot of fun. My inspiration for these "live paintings" was the master of live painting, Denny Dent , and I hope to one day try his fantastic approach. As it...
Milê Murtanovski's artwork...mostly paintings...and the occasional scale model.