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Artist and design educator in Halifax, Nova Scotia: https://generaleccentric.net
A pastel painting/drawing, mostly in reds, of mainly flat abstract areas but also an area of faint realism and depth, alluding to a robot figure with a square head.
"Mailer Robot", digital painting, 1994.
"I must Create a System or be enslaved by another Man's"
- William Blake
#art #digitalpainting #drawing #painting #fineart
“Criticize me all you want—it just makes it easier for us to identify you when we do our early morning roundups.”
03.11.2025 11:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Under Separate Cover" Oil on canvas (diptych), 1981, 145x147cm.
#art #landscape #drawing #fineart #vintage
Guangzhou Red, 2024, digital painting.
16.10.2025 22:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A black and white drawing of a man seemingly trapped behind a set of stairways.
Image #89 from the "Someone for Everything" series.
www.blurb.ca/b/11678235-s...
#art #digitalpainting #figurative #drawing
An oil painting depicting a deserted street with a pedestrian crosswalk in the foreground, with the silhouette of an enormous pyramid in the distant background.
"The Shadow of Abandonment" Oil on paper, 1980, 71x56cm. Happy Rapture Day everyone! 😏
#art #digitalpainting #landscape #drawing #painting #fineart #rapture
An impressionistic picture of a blank wall of a house with white siding in a small town in Nova Scotia.
"House", digital painting, 2025. My latest effort.
#art #digitalpainting #landscape #drawing #painting #fineart
Yeah Jay, I hear you. Unfortunately purity test messaging like that often has a negative effect. How many American voters, disappointed with their choices, said the same thing about Kamala last November? Please try to stay positive.
21.08.2025 11:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A pencil drawing of two opposing world leaders shaking hands. Text from their joined hands is revealed to be a rhetoric of bad faith, greed, lies and violence.
Study for "The Humanists" c. 1982, pencil on paper.
"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf."
- Thomas Fuller
#art #drawing #fineart
An unfinished-looking hand-painted illustration that could have been for Better Homes and Gardens in 1965 if it were not for the rendition of a dark-suited man holding a sawed-off shotgun in a stylish, modern living room.
"The Home Truths (revisited) #3", 2024, digital painting.
We all have regrets, don't we?
#art #digitalpainting #drawing #painting #fineart #mixedmedia #figurative
A digital drawing of urban sheds.
"Sheds," digital drawing, 2024.
"Every defect deserves respect." - Laura Kampf
#art #digitalpainting #landscape #drawing #painting #fineart #watercolor
I love this spot. My wife and I will be staying a week in Pugwash next month, just a stone's throw away from the Lodge.
20.07.2025 18:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The year on this should read "2021".
20.07.2025 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A b&w digital painting of two figures.
"Someone for Everything XVIII", digital drawing/painting, 2024. #art #digitalpainting #figurative #drawing
20.07.2025 18:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I’ve seen this posting once before, and I thought it incredibly prescient of Grant, if he did actually say it. Not to question your judgement Yalda, but I was curious… I looked up the quote and Scopes.com confirms that it was indeed spoken by Grant in a speech in Iowa: www.snopes.com/fact-check/g...
12.07.2025 11:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"TheY w0ulDnT d0 thAt if D0na1d TrumP was prEsideNt!"
11.07.2025 14:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A digital painting/drawing of a recently-constructed concrete building of attractive design, flanked by palm trees. View is from slightly below, looking up, so that that the horizon is below the bottom of the frame. A cloudless blue sky in the background.
"Santa Monica", 2024. A digital painting/drawing of a concrete building in California. #art #digitalpainting #landscape #NYC #drawing
11.07.2025 12:27 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
27.06.2025 12:32 — 👍 221 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1
Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.
28.06.2025 05:14 — 👍 7482 🔁 2054 💬 94 📌 46No tax on tips? You mean people pay tax on tips now?
27.06.2025 15:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of an apartment vestibule in Osu district, Accra, Ghana. This is the reference photo for the digital painting "Osu Vestibule".
This is the reference photo for "Osu Vestibule". I retained the simple object arrangement, but by comparing this with the painting, you can see that I changed the colour and quality of the light throughout. Reminds me of what Edward Hopper was trying to do near the end of his career.
27.06.2025 14:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A realistic digital painting of a contemporary interior scene from equatorial west Africa: a vestibule with no windows but an open doorway allows morning sun to stream in. A wooden desk is against one wall, and a small sofa on the other wall. The room is spare, allowing the sunlight to play in different hues, reflecting onto the brown ceramic floor and the whitewashed walls.
"Osu Vestibule" 2024, digital painting. From a photo I took of the area between the outside my apartment and the outside courtyard. I was in Accra, Ghana teaching a two-week product design course. So close to the equator, Accra's light is so different from my home at 45° N. #art #painting #interior
27.06.2025 11:51 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The design work of Rolf Harder (1929 - 2013). Scanned from 107 grafici dell’ AGI – Alliance Graphique Internationale, 1974
www.designreviewed.com/artefacts/10... #rolfharder
Another picture from my covid project in 2021-22: "Someone for Everything XI", the 11th in a series of 100 progressive (each one builds on the previous one) drawings. The full set in book form can be viewed/purchased on Blurb: www.blurb.ca/b/11678235-s... #art #drawing #painting #fineart #artbooks
22.06.2025 12:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A watercolour painting on paper of a haute couture mannequin without a wig stands in front of a doorway. On the other side of the door is nothing, a completely blank space.
"An Incipient Reductionist", watercolour on paper, 1983, 79x64cm. This one was sold, then returned after several years, and has for the past 20 years, graced my office at school. This is among of the last pieces I made before giving up my offsite studio. #art #drawing #painting #fineart #watercolor
18.06.2025 09:26 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A digital painting/drawing, very flat and abstract with large areas of rusty brown colour, of the New York skyline from 2001, bisected by a thin tall light standard.
"New York from Jersey 2001": a digital painting, 2025. This is from a photo that I took from a taxi in March 2001 on a work trip to NYC. The photo looks into the sunlight; a very tall light standard and the NYC skyline is in the distant background. #art #digitalpainting #landscape #NYC #drawing
12.06.2025 12:29 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The completed digital painting of a late afternoon city scene. The image is very 'crunchy', with lots of texture and overlays.
"Madrid, 1981" completed. Digital painting, 2025.
08.06.2025 21:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A late-state work-in-progress digital painting of a late afternoon city scene. The image is very 'crunchy', with lots of texture and overlays.
This is a work-in-progress: "Madrid, 1981". #workinprogress #art #digitalpainting #landscape
02.06.2025 19:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah, I hear what you’re saying. The majority of the world’s problems existed long before the USA and Israel. We both don’t like what the current governments of Israel and US are doing right now, but there’s plenty of blame to go around. Hyperbole is rarely effective in winning people over.
01.06.2025 06:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Bat/15BFB5C2F1BD82BD
🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #American #Contemporary
Jeffrey Vallance (b. 1955)
BAT, 1988
Collage and mixed media on paper
