Golden Pump

Had a holiday break for a spell in late January. After that in February I've been working on several charity based projects lately. Still one to go, and a couple of illustration assignments. The one I'm posting is for the St Louis AIGA chapter, and the American Heart Association. The Heart, one of those two special organs. I leave the second to your choice. I've painted the heart a couple of times before, and wanted to try push another direction. This painting is oils on wooden panel, with gold leaf on the sides/edges. The heart is supposedly the seat of love, maybe it's the love of life. Hope yours keeps pumping.

Oils on wooden panel.


Gold leaf on edges

Gate D43

I've finished another canvas. The subject was a photo I shot out the window of an airport while waiting for our flight. I developed my sketch from elements in my photo. The tarmac/concrete had subtle bands of tone. I worked up a pencil, and did a colour study in vector. Below are my preliminaries.

Last of Summer

Fun piece for a themed group show in Calgary, CANADA. The title of the show is Bonfires. It's at the Uppercase gallery. The painting is oils on wooden panel, 9 by 12 inches.

Color Study - Personal Work

I've been painting urban subjects for my own personal work. The idea of transfiguration of the commonplace is my motivation. I've found developing a color study in vector allows for a better understanding when developing my painting. The final painting is in oils with minor adjustments in the painting of the final. I've had an internal discussion between my digital work, and my traditional painting for years. One informs the other.Vector study for painting.

Chrome Lady

Study Sketch
Final PaintingRecently finished gallery work. Oils on wooden panel, 24" by 12". I'm looking toward a subtle level of abstraction. I'll being pushing in that direction with a more reductive look on my next one.

Tagged Grain

Still working on my illustration assignments, but stayin' up a little later to do some of my own stuff. I painted a grain car that was parked on the rails in my home town. I was back visiting family in Alberta. The western prairies are home to a lot of grain, barley, flax, and canola. The cars wear the markings of their journeys. I wanted to distort the car, and get that big sky. It's oils on a wooden panel. Horizontal formats are my favs, and usually don't fare well in the print world, or on monitors. I added a detail to try, and offer a feeling of the surface.

Adolescent Tendencies

Oils & mixed media on masonite

Here's something I did for a as yet "undisclosed Lucasfilm project." I checked with the organizer of the project, he said it would be okay to post. It was fun to play with the subject that had such impact in my mind when the first film came out. The title of the piece is "1/24th Scale".

Drawing on the walls

A few years ago, two illustrator pals and I formed a collective called Trio Magnus born out of our mutual love of drinking and doodling. Since then, we've had a couple of fun shows and even published a book. The most recent opportunity we've had to show our work happened last week thanks to our friend, publisher and patron, Anne Koyama, who got us in as one of the featured exhibitors at the relaunch of Keep Six Contemporary, a recently renovated gallery here in Toronto which includes a number of smaller studio spaces. We proceeded to take over one of these spaces and cover the walls with not only collaborative pieces we'd done in the past, but also a 6 x 6 foot drawing (Snowman markers on primed canvas) created on the spot as the evening progressed. Does it get any better than drinking beer and drawing on the walls? Absolutely not!

Ian Dingman: How Lovely

Urbanest has a collection of some of my new pieces now on display. 5228 N. Clark, Chicago. Ends 2/28.