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    Night Visions....from Laputa Ebook

    Figurative Painting

    by Raymond St. Arnaud

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    Laputa, as a place, was introduced to the world by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels.



    Laputa, as a place to live, came into my life in 1974 when I returned to the University of Alberta, Edmonton, as a student. It was one of twelve residential houses operated by Campus Co-op, a non-profit housing society



    The hard edge paintings had their origins in an exercise from painting class. I can’t remember the trigger, but I adopted the hard edge style very quickly as a means to do figurative painting. The figurative paintings were independent of any classroom activity.



    Also used as a source in the hard edge paintings were drawings created through a computer process. These have been referenced in another book,

    The Amdahl Graphics . . . 1974, 1975, 1976.



    The airbrush paintings evolved as a means to explore mixing colour on the canvas, while in the process of drawing/painting multiple overlays. I restricted myself to yellow, magenta, cyan and white pigments.



    The “Metallics” paintings were yet another exploration of alternatives in my painting world. The metallics and diluted acrylics were applied using an airless electric spray gun. My biggest challenge in this period was discovering a means to paint acrylic on a metallic primer.
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    • Primary Category: Fine Art
    • Version Fixed-layout ebook, 64 pgs
    • Publish Date: Sep 29, 2012
    • Last Edit Dec 13, 2012
    • Language English
    • Keywords Painting, figurative, abstract, hard, edge, acrylic, metal, metallic, airbrush
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    Raymond St Arnaud
    Victoria, BC, Canada

    The world presents itself and I observe. There are times the observation becomes an obsession. Sometimes, a casual encounter. These moments become the photographs I interpret by exaggeration or simplification. I have been an exhibitor since 1969; exhibiting photographs, painting and prints through 150 exhibitions, primarily in US university, college, and community galleries in 31 American States; in BC, Alberta, Ontario and in web galleries in Canada, Australia, China, Thailand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Italy and the United States. I now publish books of current and past projects as a means of closure and completion. Born and educated in Alberta, I moved to the coast in 1984, and have been living in Victoria since 1986. .

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