Buckingham's

"Eye Candy" exhibition, Buckingham Fine Art Gallery, Uxbridge featuring the work of our good friends Robert Amirault, Shelly Burke and John Stuart Pryce.

Bon Echo Park

Two Weeks in Figure Drawing

Comic Books

I drew comic books for 30 years. For a long time I taught elementary school all day and then came home to draw comics until midnight and most weekends. I used the moniker "R.G. Taylor" because there already was a well know colourist in the industry called Rick Taylor.

An Oldie Reborn

For as long as I can recall, my cousin Pat has been an avid supporter of my artwork.  This art school "oldie," resurrected from my storage locker, hung in my parents' home for many years. When Pat expressed her fondness for the piece I promptly drove it to her home in Georgetown.  To my delight she quickly cleaned off 40 years worth of dust and repaired and repainted my homemade frame.  Back in the day I made my own, admittedly lousy frames and build and stretched my own canvases.

Commission

As a rule, commissions make me very anxious and I try to avoid them.  This one, however, provided some intriguing challenges. It is also a gift for the client's father and I have a soft spot for great dads, given how much mine meant to me.

  I had to take a scene I had already painted and make it look like it was now set in the seventies or early eighties.  This entailed removing a number of tall buildings, researching the pre renovation A.G.O., and getting a handle on the vintage vehicles. Fortunately this model of Red Rocket had come into operation around this time, but is currently being phased out. It also occurred to me television antennae would be common.

Anyhow, a long haul, but hopefully the collector will appreciate the effort.