Daniel Liam Gill

Cacophony

Daniel Liam Gill — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:50:31 +0000

I started this painting with an acid yellow base and red painted with a balloon. I asked my model April if I could use her a s brush. She’s small with great definition. I placed green and purple along the edges of the painting, she lied down in the paint and water mixture and I guided her back and forth over the surface three or for times until an image emerged. I then spent about 20 hours on the result, finding shapes and edges. This varies greatly from my normal color palette. I never use an acid green like this and tried to tone it down throughout the painting. I gave up fighting with it about 17 hours into the work and something happened. I used a color that matched the green and the drawing unified. It shimmers in the light like an insect’s wing, impossible to capture with my camera.

Featured Artist in March

Daniel Liam Gill — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:16:23 +0000

I am the featured artist this month at My Color Image Gallery in Chattanooga, TN. Here’s a preview of the featured works and a thanks to Kate O’Brien Clarke, the model for a majority of the Dysphagia Series.

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Cumulo Lunas

Daniel Liam Gill — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:26:14 +0000

Sometimes there are paintings where the muse takes over and magic jumps from the surface and guides my hand. I didn’t think much of this one when I added the blue green layer. It was truly as mess. I walked by it a few times and then I saw the seashell thing pop out at me. I nailed to to the wall and the was the Moon, mouth agape and singing in my ear. The clouds formed themselves with the help of some oils that Whitney gave me. This isn’t my usual color palette and I never by flesh color. It worked great for this composition. The Rivoli welcoming me with open arms, it head back in a good natured guffaw.

Polyploidy

Daniel Liam Gill — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:43:07 +0000

The first in a series of larger pieces measuring 24″ x 48′, this piece experiments with animal and vegetable forms. The seething stew at the base and the ribbon storm overhead in a courtship dance. Bad writing and pretension aside, it’s a collection of pleasing and violent shapes whose meaning is yours to interpret.

Sentinels

Daniel Liam Gill — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:44:59 +0000

I’m gearing up for my featured show at My Color Image Gallery in March, doing figure work and balloon paintings. The first or which is this piece that I call “Sentinels”. I’ve used this 12″ x 24″ format before on my hip studies and have adapted it to fit these abstracts. I start with a warm layer, usually yellow and some red, let that dry and add the cool layer, stare at the thing and see what speaks to me. Easter Island must have been buried in my subconscious, I found these stone soldiers forming in the verdure. My brother showed me how to spot spiders using a flashlight at night. He shone it on the hedges and I was amazed at how many tiny eyes stared back at us. Some of those eyes are in “Sentinels”.

Accepted to My Color Image Gallery

Daniel Liam Gill — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:19:30 +0000

My work has been accepted to My color Image Gallery on Frazier Avenue in Chattanooga, TN. I will also be the featured artist for the month of March with the following events scheduled:

Meet the Artist
4pm-7pm
March 4th, 2010

Meet the Artist Demo
1pm-4pm
March 13, 2010

Finale’ Gala
4pm-7pm
March 25, 2010

Drop by if you’re in the neighborhood. It’s a great gallery featuring local artists

Special thanks to Terri Zitrick-Dennehy for the opportunity!

Ploidy

Daniel Liam Gill — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:58:37 +0000

Ploidy is a Dysphagia type construction with a sandwiched balloon experiment as it’s base. It doesn’t fit into the rest of the series but looks very much like a tadpole on it’s way to froggydom.

I’ve never been too found of this shade of yellow but it does work well in this composition.

Zygocyte

Daniel Liam Gill — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:42:30 +0000

New work in the Seeds Series, a balloon painting on wood. I’ve decided to display this work at a 45 degree angle as it expands from the bottom point outward. Zygocyte is the initial cell formed when a new organism is produced by means of sexual reproduction. I’ve blended the illusion of animal tissue with plant, the start of another season.

Mannaz

Daniel Liam Gill — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:53:48 +0000

Another in the rune series of painted tapes on gessoed masonite, Mannaz features two portraits of Julie, one of Quin, and parts of other models. I really love the breaking of form and the rhythm of these pieces. The two separate portraits of Julie, though not the same scale or color, read as Julie. It’s funny how the mind wants to bring order to chaos.

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Uraz

Daniel Liam Gill — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:42:08 +0000

This is a smaller tape assemblage made from portraits of Mila, Samara and oil sketches from Hipbone Studio. Named for the rune Uraz, meaning strength and health. I see power in this piece, it’s centered around one of the most interesting people I’ve every met, Mila Lupe, she’s got a power running through her like none I’ve ever felt before. The same can be said for Samara but it’s a more quiet current like the grass growing.

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