tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33809840450195884122024-03-04T22:40:28.518-08:00TAR(Toronto Art Revival)Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-69181385337980457752012-10-02T07:24:00.000-07:002012-10-02T07:24:22.228-07:00The Last Week Of A Drawing A DayWe now wrap up the first month of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TorontoARTrevival">TAR (torontoARTrevival)</a>'s facebook page launch. I will still be posting my art works and the works of others but I will be tackling new topics for the month of October. I will get into details about this after I finish recapping the past weeks drawings.<br />
<b>Tuesday the 25th</b><br />
I have started a series of ink drawings that I wish to later do in water colour, graphite and ink. This series will be called "Wax", inspired by the Greek myth of Icarus. I have only three pieces, so I will be posting its progress in the weeks to come. Here is the second of this series<br />
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<b>Wednesday the 26th</b><br />
"Old Elm"<br />
This is a drawing of the old elm tree on my parents property in Nova Scotia. It is one of the only elm trees in the area to survive the ravaging dutch elm disease that destroyed so many trees in the 1980's and 1990's.<br />
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<b>Thursday the 27th</b><br />
"Protection"<br />
The image of the hand and the elephant was stuck in my head for months before I sat down and finally started drawing it. This is common, that I will have images that seem to "haunt" me till I get them out on paper or canvas, or just tell them visually any way I can.<br />
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This is the first of the "Wax" series<br />
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<b>Friday the 28th</b><br />
"In Those Waves"<br />
Thi<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">s i</span>s another of my older ink works.<br />
The series of work at this time I like to call "Folk Noir".<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">So I decided I would do a new sport player drawing , twenty years later, of David Silva.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Saturday the 29th</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sunday the 30th</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">So that wraps up the first month of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TorontoARTrevival">TAR (torontoARTrevival)</a>'s facebook page launch.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">For the next month I wish to bring attention to the subject of art and the city.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">The past month has been about my own work. But I wish now to discuss the city I live in. How a city changes the people, and how the people change the city.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">A big part of this is how we interact and see our public art. I wish to show this in three topics. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">The first ten days of posts will be on public sculpture, the places they are presented in, and the artists that have been commissioned to create them. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">The second ten days of posts I wish to show and document the beautiful, dynamic but yet controversial (to some) work of graffiti artist. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Then I will finish this with another ten days on the massive change of Toronto's sky line, architecture.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">These are three strong discussions that effect our lives in an urban environment. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">To keep in touch daily on our face book page, please come visit <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TorontoARTrevival">TAR (torontoARTrevival)</a> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I will be posting on this blog at the end of each topic as well.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068688281704081089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-18577386223497823832012-09-25T18:21:00.000-07:002012-09-25T18:21:39.750-07:00The last week of September<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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5 days left till my October theme. For the month of October I
will be concentrating on public sculpture work in Toronto. I have felt that
this has been a neglected part of our urban environment. There have been a disproportionate
amount of sculpture in comparison to private development in Toronto, and I feel
the best way to show how important it is to our urban environment is to show
the places that have presented great public work and spaces already in our city.<br />
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<b>Tuesday the 18th</b></div>
I was organizing my studio, going through the years of work I have done since moving to Toronto, and I found a folder of work that had some older promo cards for past shows.<br />
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<b> Thursday the 19th</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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I decided to do a father daughter day. At lunch I went to local neighbourhood restaurant with her and we did sticker drawings. She ended up drawing name tags for everyone that worked there, including the owner.</div>
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<b>Saturday the 21st (last day of summer)</b><br />
The following pieces were done some years ago, when living in Vancouver. I called this series "Collage of Thoughts", because I created the piece panel by panel without a pre sketch or pencil drawing.</div>
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The following I drew at <a href="http://www.locusonmain.com/">The Locus</a>, when I lived off of Main Street in Vancouver.</div>
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Not finished yet, but another tattoo design. I love it when people want my own style in the work I make for them.</div>
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Spider Makes An Ugly Hand - When I first moved to Toronto, I was making one of a kind books with copies, and hand written poems to go with the ink works that I was producing. I hope to do this again, but instead as a printed book like the one I can do with <a href="http://www.elephoto.ca/">elephoto </a></div>
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Starting next Monday I will have a new theme for the page. I will still post on the blog every Tuesday. I hope to increase my blog posts to twice a week, but for now it is more consistent for me to speak of my week of work. I am really excited to show and explore Toronto's public sculpture and I will post what I find and present on my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TorontoARTrevival">TAR (torontoARTrevival)</a>'s facebook page here once a week.</div>
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I leave you with a quote by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus">Albert Camus</a> </div>
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OK... finally sitting in front of the computer, finalize my past weeks TAR posts on the new facebook page. It was a rough week, some jobs took longer than others, so I posted a more content that explains my personal work. </div>
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I need to explain though that TAR is not to promote my art only, but also other artists too, whether, visual, musical, sculptural, and etc. At the moment I will use it to introduce myself and the kind of work I do as I build a new network of artists to share with.</div>
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So week two of "A Drawing A Day".</div>
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<b>Tuesday the 11th</b><br />
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This is a sketch of my son in my studio. I have used this as my profile pick often. Really like the way he had poised his arm behind him</div>
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This is a line sketch I did for an older painting called Solitude. I have unfortunately lost most of the photos of my work, but I still am in possession of the original painting so I will have to take some new photos of it.<br />
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The boy was dressed up as a pirate so I wanted to involve him in a moment that would depict the imagination of the pretend world that he was immersed in. </div>
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This my son, Fearless, never stops moving. Endless energy, and endless questions, and yes, this is something he would probably do.<br />
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I have always been drawn to narrative work that is strong in symbolism. Many have called my work during this period, Folk Noir.</div>
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This image influenced one of my favourite pieces in the series of paintings, "In The Studio".</div>
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Starling - 24"x48" - acrylic, collage on board</div>
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In the series "In The Studio" all the sketches came from work I did during a really cold winter we had some years back. Light reflects differently in temperature but also the body and mood does so too.</div>
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Weekends, tough to get much done, but I have a lot to share. This was a sketch I did when living, struggling, and feeling lost between changes in my life. Living in Canmore Alberta, was not the same as my hopes before moving there from Vancouver were. </div>
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Luckily I had good friends in Calgary, and met some great people that helped me without ever wanting anything in return.</div>
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Even though it was a hard time for me, personally, I would never take it back because of the wonderful and good people I met there.</div>
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These are a few of the other sketches from my sketch books that encompassed the work that went into the art show "In The Studio".</div>
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Finished in the morning. I show the final to the person that commissioned it tomorrow.</div>
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Yin Yang, duo dragons, light and dark, moon and sun forever consuming one.</div>
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Well that wraps up week two of a"drawing a day for the month of September".</div>
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Check in on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TorontoARTrevival">TAR (torontoARTrevival)</a>'s facebook page for daily drawings or tune in next Tuesday for the full weeks work.</div>
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I leave you with a quote from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>, which I have used on the back of my TAR business card.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068688281704081089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-4065754366040242002012-09-11T07:33:00.006-07:002012-09-11T07:33:51.683-07:00A Drawing A DaySo for the past week I have been posting a drawing a day on my new facebook page<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/TorontoARTrevival">TAR (torontoARTrevival)</a>.<br />
I am going to recap the week of drawings every Tuesday on my blog. It was supposed be every Monday but after a weekend doing things with the family it makes Monday morning a little challenging.<br />
Thank you to everyone that has liked my page, I hope that you have been enjoying the pictures. I am already making plans for October, but that news will come later.<br />
Day one, as you can see on the blog post from last week, I started with a dedication for my wife on her birthday.<br />
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<b>Tuesday the 4th </b><br />
This is a picture of my nephew that my sister sent me. There is another one of him sailing that is really nice as well, but that I will draw another time.<br />
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<b>Wednesday the 5th</b><br />
My parents home is full of books, it was like growing up in a library. My Mother had a few books on Tarot cards. I found the images allowed the mind to wonder, and create a story of why this scene would exist. To this day I love symbolism in art. Simple objects that can have universal and vast meanings when placed in different context. <br />
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<b>Thursday the 6th</b><br />
I will let the viewer decide on this one.<br />
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<b>Friday the 7th</b><br />
Toronto has the <a href="http://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/chat/general-chit-chat/739/toronto-has-the-most-highrise-buildings-under-construction-in-north-america-sustainable">largest high rise growth in the world</a>, 132, and I am sure that number is growing.<br />
So this t-shirt was inspired by the view out my back window.<br />
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<b>Saturday the 8th</b><br />
This one is not a new picture, it was made last year, but week-ends, (especially this one was quite hectic), so I decided to post this and another bike picture. I will be adding to this theme in the weeks to come. I am playing with the idea of doing a bike art show, and for anyone that knows me I am an avid cyclist. I could live on a bike.<br />
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<b>Sunday the 9th</b><br />
I have two pictures for this day. This one I made into a t-shirt. It was from a small line gesture sketch that I quickly scribbled off to get a feeling of someone riding a bike. I blew it up and printed a one off for myself, since then I have done the same for another half dozen people that I bump into. I have played with the thought of investing making more, but not right now.<br />
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this is the other bicycle drawing. It is a detail of a 1930's Bianchi.<br />
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<b>Monday the 10th</b><br />
After I sent the picture of my first tarot card to my Mother to see, I asked what card was her favourite. She said it was The Magician. So this one is for her.<br />
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That wraps up this week. If you want to follow my drawings daily, here is a link to the facebook page<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/TorontoARTrevival">TAR (torontoARTrevival)</a>.<br />
If you don't use face book then just tune in to this blog every Tuesday.<br />
I will sign out with a quote from Kurt Vonnegut that I feel fits <b>TAR</b>.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068688281704081089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-91367806756208615542012-09-03T06:16:00.001-07:002012-09-03T06:26:03.137-07:00Today I am launching my new Facebook page for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TorontoARTrevival">TAR (torontoARTrevival)</a>.<br />
For the month of September I will be posting a drawing a day. I will also post on my blog the pictures every Monday of the past weeks work.<br />
Today is my wife's 36th Birthday, and for some, you may know that she has been fight valiantly against cancer for the past six years. Because she was diagnosed in stage four cancer, she was given only six months to two years to live. Well now it is six years after that prognoses and she is still fighting and still able to enjoy our children.<br />
So I dedicate this page and the first picture to her.<br />
Keep fighting, and keep loving life.<br />
Love, your husband<br />
Randal Gordy Lee<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068688281704081089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-36141766794131539522011-10-25T17:18:00.000-07:002011-10-26T08:05:51.801-07:00This week in T-shirt design<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div><br />In the past month I have been designing t-shirts for myself because my oldies are getting to tattered. </div><div>I am also lost in deciding what to give as Christmas gifts, so some of these just may do.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">Here I did a line illustration with the old text of a CBC classic.<br />If you never new of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0215581/" style="color: rgb(19, 108, 178); ">Louis Del Grande</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> and the classic CBC TV series from the eighties then here is an intro </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryWsVFkJ1QI</span></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0lbjxrsU2kcszIT3e2MJ7b14GY0WMUHVJk5BnoUBJuktCFr5nFiauzHjeCnt-2aaLjmQiSt8l8EGmefWUDN8u9LnheuYUhKwe9E-3awUA_lCI6frbjLQzIVqTeZWsZwWOD760CEtJ2izQ/s1600/8.5x1seething.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0lbjxrsU2kcszIT3e2MJ7b14GY0WMUHVJk5BnoUBJuktCFr5nFiauzHjeCnt-2aaLjmQiSt8l8EGmefWUDN8u9LnheuYUhKwe9E-3awUA_lCI6frbjLQzIVqTeZWsZwWOD760CEtJ2izQ/s400/8.5x1seething.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667805514850974898" /></a><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">Rob Ford Nation has just recently had its first year bossing Hog Town around. So I needed to make up something to commemorate his first year, and for us all to remember the special, and I do mean "special", guest Rob Ford had speak for him.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">Question, does Don Cherry even live in Toronto?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">If you have forgotten this very intelligent welcoming speech by Mr. Cherry, here is a link to remind everyone. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">and a T-shirt for Don Cherry, I printed mine white on hot pink.</span></p> <!--EndFragment--><div><div>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHzCoUZG2Js</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibEAPp2LpfI28jYCpT_ZuNx9IbOhQrBijA4IM1TvJEsuXiunHTH-dneReAphtGcbUsAEjaFIxRCxLWP0EylWCQ-TTcz2E_CrRcVsjAWyiXDDbdFvyyEn7e_yer2zlLfhCTm1uexq9KDu1D/s400/8.5x11tictactoes.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667814785431035522" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000ee;"><br /></span><br /></div></div></div>Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-47990563123850339012010-01-16T17:25:00.000-08:002010-01-16T17:30:23.016-08:00About ArtArt<br />Like every thing in life, practice and an obsessed determination, through an aspired task, leads to the souls language.<br />Only through making a form, natural through determined work, can one master the intuitive nature of the medium in relationship with one’s soul.<br /><br />How can the soul speak of the art, if the soul does not know the art?<br />The process over the product is what is the art.<br />Cause, statement, political emphasis, are all spoken languages that need not ART to help define.<br />Art is the souls language, with a medium that makes the artist one, (like a marriage), it is the vessel that speaks to the heart.<br />Statement, cause, and “trying to hard” are the devil to true inspired work.<br />To experience the moment of practice, “Erika”, it is to BE in the MOMENT of god.<br /><br />Randal Gordy Lee<br />Winter 2010Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-33689398406519278552009-07-25T17:51:00.000-07:002009-08-29T08:53:39.509-07:00What is in a quote?The purpose of a quote, to be quoted, is in the eye of wonder. Excepted by the peer and enamoured by the mass, we see these short statements from idealized members of society, as confirmation of our beliefs. A voice that echoes our feelings with words we cannot have said ourselves.<br />So what is in a quote, self acknowledgement or reprisal of our spirits?<br /><br />These are my favourite quotes, and links to inspiring individuals that I feel will be quoted for many generations to come. People who's passions are to make a better place for all of us.<br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Creativity and the future of our childrens education.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Albert Einstein</span><br /><br /><br />Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.<br /><br />Watch his inspiring speach on TEDtalks<br />and visit his website to learn more about him.<br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bit.ly/w8Jj0">http://bit.ly/w8Jj0</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bit.ly/w8Jj0">http://www.sirkenrobinson.com/<br /></a></p><p><a href="http://bit.ly/w8Jj0"><br /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://bit.ly/w8Jj0"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://bit.ly/w8Jj0"><br /></a></p><p><br /></p>Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-60967445846236697092009-07-21T08:06:00.000-07:002009-07-23T06:52:14.916-07:00Live Paint Night - Stencil show<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCvV35FqtmVr3op3uF-40MSjXZTP8k88jrbNMSKK0B1JGNQzRf0leAx4YR4vDR5fX1OSRyDdSzjNtXxqY5X3rKNrHQer4Ui8riD5d_WBuFMtdXGFsVIgj_ZYdN9BrO8XsP7qT7jjATnZEk/s1600-h/lindy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCvV35FqtmVr3op3uF-40MSjXZTP8k88jrbNMSKK0B1JGNQzRf0leAx4YR4vDR5fX1OSRyDdSzjNtXxqY5X3rKNrHQer4Ui8riD5d_WBuFMtdXGFsVIgj_ZYdN9BrO8XsP7qT7jjATnZEk/s200/lindy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361652345180681186" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sunday, July 26th</span> from 5pm till midnight <span style="font-weight: bold;">@ the OY (www.<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">theoldyork<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.com)</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 167 Niagara St. </span>will be <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">TAR</span>'s </span>next<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Live Paint Night.<br /></span>We will be presenting for everyone to participate in a Stencil Show. <span style="font-weight: bold;">TAR</span>(toronto<span style="font-weight: bold;">ART</span>revival) and the Old York will supply the the wall sized canvas, paints, basic stencil shapes and brushes.<br />Since there will not be any sharp cutting devices allowed, please feel free to bring your own pre-cut stencils, that you would like to incorporated in this large cooperative painting.<br />Enter our draw to win the Live Paint Night collective masterpiece.<br />This is a free event but we welcome donations to help keep these amazing events running.<br />follow us on our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=95220630741"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TAR</span> (torontoARTrevival)</a> facebook group<br />and on <a href="http://twitter.com/TOartRevival"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Twitter</span></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></span>Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-10704035887968518002009-06-30T16:59:00.000-07:002009-07-04T11:54:48.971-07:00The Road Can Be A Rash Reality<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2TnZ219HTpvRsvU5SaK22sFCCW6PoKDbLXIeFA6oXEhKu1BxNCzGinXebKc9LL_nEMJgQNqmw49_TXsl01HCZGETf5ygVRcIohJO5MTbAPdtrGVicF5ARqMGhyHS2_SKYNZnswremEqvj/s1600-h/scar1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354679873019417858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2TnZ219HTpvRsvU5SaK22sFCCW6PoKDbLXIeFA6oXEhKu1BxNCzGinXebKc9LL_nEMJgQNqmw49_TXsl01HCZGETf5ygVRcIohJO5MTbAPdtrGVicF5ARqMGhyHS2_SKYNZnswremEqvj/s320/scar1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Last Sunday, was supposed to be my last chance to get a ride and some games of squash in before my wife went on vacation. The bent out of shape evening it did become, was an ambulance ride and almost a full night in emergency at the hospital. My bring home gifts: road rash, a swollen jaw, six stitches in my ear (splitting the cartilage), a separated rib, wip lash, all this and of course the headaches, fatigue and aches that would come with all that rattling noise. I've never had an accident like this before. I look quite the sight, worthy of stares, and questions, but without much of a great story to tell. Doing 40-45km at dusk I momentarily look back to see if my friend saw which turn I took, and as I turn back, Wham, speed bump. Where did that come from? No marker, no paint, it must of launched me 10-20 feet. I remember being air born. I remember hitting. </div><br /><div>Then I remember a half hour later, some vague recollection of walking, in fact walked the remainder of the distance back from the spit to the main road were we flagged a car, and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlMuraUzizKA_gGh-vOrMB5RT2e0YHwDfXUQjCm5tYEVMOMr7PqOA9vOxBB-CPiBvDls7YMFTawrCDDa9pcPGRs7LNU_EZdLEha50sO-IweVnLEDIQspaQ5ki2oKs3EJM0vAS09fbs9rbj/s1600-h/scar3.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354680263243749106" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlMuraUzizKA_gGh-vOrMB5RT2e0YHwDfXUQjCm5tYEVMOMr7PqOA9vOxBB-CPiBvDls7YMFTawrCDDa9pcPGRs7LNU_EZdLEha50sO-IweVnLEDIQspaQ5ki2oKs3EJM0vAS09fbs9rbj/s320/scar3.JPG" border="0" /></a>they called the ambulance with Dave's request. I did not feel much pain till the next day. Two days later and I'm an aching mess. Dave walked my bike back to his place, and unbelievably, when I went to get it, my good old trusty steed was in sturdy and stellar shape, aside from scuffings and blood spatter. I think I must name my bike now after this dramatic evening, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears even the split one?</div><br /><div>I will be giving the details of the next "Live Paint" in due time.</div></div>Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-33774386886068275002009-06-27T14:38:00.000-07:002009-06-27T15:37:21.440-07:00Live Paint Night<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDAfEF7OoktyLjEGymM3QuPs2UF2DHus-shftuKfX3He0w2Xg9V3ice9oL4-b0uZHPudgzwkQjtSTM5vON7Y6lobZkaOXRgTGIcDYxZ91I0PBqVsgOoQB6wl4fXspFYlD00wVXhe1ktcQe/s1600-h/puffin.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352126798606113058" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDAfEF7OoktyLjEGymM3QuPs2UF2DHus-shftuKfX3He0w2Xg9V3ice9oL4-b0uZHPudgzwkQjtSTM5vON7Y6lobZkaOXRgTGIcDYxZ91I0PBqVsgOoQB6wl4fXspFYlD00wVXhe1ktcQe/s320/puffin.jpg" border="0" /></a> Portrait yet to be completed.<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Ómar</span></span> with Puffin Daddy @ the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">OY</span></span> - 2009<br /><br />Last Tuesdays Live Paint Night did not have as many participants on stage but again it was a wonderful night of painting and conversation. We did not start until 8pm, and didn't let the paint start to dry till one in the morning. A much <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">different</span> out come to the abstract line piece of the previous week.<br />We did not end having a draw this evening. Being a portrait of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Ómar</span></span> and the Old York's mascot puffin.<br />TAR (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">torontoARTrevival</span></span>) has decided to give the canvas to him after completion.<br />I will post photos of the finished canvas next week.<br />Our next post will also give the details of July's Live Paint, and I will be giving lots of notice to make plans.<br />John <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Viljoen</span></span> was in attendance for the night and added in the fun. John is a excellent portrait painter from Toronto, see his works here: <a href="http://bit.ly/FxH9x">http://bit.ly/FxH9x</a><br />If anyone is interested in seeing my work online, heck:<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/VU5OL">http://bit.ly/VU5OL</a><br />or<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/lvUFI">http://bit.ly/lvUFI</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-7047068547421111712009-06-20T13:10:00.000-07:002009-06-20T13:24:51.900-07:00TAR (torontoARTrevival) Live Paint Night<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkxANDZNaaPxV2lfRclHCJpPQ38QXhvgNjNl9nT9jDUkgi3LNGkpXFAOlN5prqevHvSDWgGmZ9gNZekFCoQCdYDm7aGy0iv4V8hnXY3quO7f93QgPbYE8s9Drl0Kf6lN7mCj-A9yhpUkA0/s1600-h/5002_215094525330_613935330_7354005_579054_n.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkxANDZNaaPxV2lfRclHCJpPQ38QXhvgNjNl9nT9jDUkgi3LNGkpXFAOlN5prqevHvSDWgGmZ9gNZekFCoQCdYDm7aGy0iv4V8hnXY3quO7f93QgPbYE8s9Drl0Kf6lN7mCj-A9yhpUkA0/s320/5002_215094525330_613935330_7354005_579054_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349504971105161794" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Well we are coming up to another Live Paint Night @ the Old York.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tuesday June 23rd, from 7-9pm.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">(mind you, last Sunday night went until one in the morning)</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Some great photos were taken by </span><span style="font-family: georgia;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Ómar</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, and put on the Old York </span><span style="font-family: georgia;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">facebook</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> fan club.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><----- like this one :)</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">This piece was given to Erin after it was signed by TAR.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I like how this collective piece has no single name, was produced in flux, and no monetary value was associated to it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">On Tuesday, I will be planning to create a raffle so that the piece will be given away in a draw. One does not need to be a participant, they can be a part of the audience.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I like how this process over product </span><span style="font-family: georgia;" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">exercise</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> leaves ego outside the door. There is no name to associate to it and there is no pressure to produce something that may not look great. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Just a physical presentation that is about bringing art back to a place that I think it is missing, It`s soul and unexplained connection to all of our creative potentials. </span><br />I hope to have a great series of photos for this show and maybe even a video.Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-11016837096858409332009-06-12T18:38:00.001-07:002009-06-13T16:22:09.472-07:00Father, Son and Friends<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdLSesjmF2_mOq5IPlQ5t99v1GXKUuNaLjTuttRpkxdBLEi5URkKwLtfPW3O5RClSeE5QVbC6X18wuv5hR2v_yna_-EWjqdPXL65DqPIHN9tSZ0safAFzYui6qLQO40yZUJvxYp-CGjuv/s1600-h/ellpaint1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdLSesjmF2_mOq5IPlQ5t99v1GXKUuNaLjTuttRpkxdBLEi5URkKwLtfPW3O5RClSeE5QVbC6X18wuv5hR2v_yna_-EWjqdPXL65DqPIHN9tSZ0safAFzYui6qLQO40yZUJvxYp-CGjuv/s320/ellpaint1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346620942590723874" border="0" /></a><br />Last night I set up at the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">OY</span> (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">theoldyork</span>)<br /><a href="http://www.theoldyork.com/">www.theoldyork.com</a><br />an eclectic salon style show of works from myself and my son.<br />It ended up being a late night, as I had to wait for tables to finish dinner and the crowd watching the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Stanley</span> Cup game to move along, but I eventually got everything up.<br />On Sunday June 14<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">th</span>, we will do a live canvas on stage from<br />4 to 6pm.<br /><br />Elliott Lee<br />Elliott has always come out drawing and sketching with me at the cafes and galleries around Toronto since he was an infant. By the time he was a year and a half (with the fascination and determination to do the things I was doing) he was holding and drawing with my pens. He was born December 2003, and now has a wonderful way of forming his ideas with imagery. I remember one time when he was three he drew circles within circles, and I told him how it reminded me of the rings of a tree. I then pulled a cut log from the stack of fire wood on the back porch and described to him that for each ring in the cross cut, represented a year of the trees growth. In the case of the tree I was demostrating, it was 35 years old.<br />I drew this log in perspective to illustrate. He drew it this way for two weeks, with branches coming from it, and animals crawling around it, filling pages and pages of 17” X 22” sketch paper.<br />I always look forward to my time drawing with Elliott at places like the Old York, where friends that we know gather and speak of their own artistic practices in the art that they do.<br />Every Sunday for the next month and a half, I plan to do something there for anyone that wants to come by between 4 and 6pm.<br />Check in on this blog for updates, including a possible draw for a free original Randal Gordy Lee and Live Paint SundaysRandal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-1054598779484690802008-09-14T06:44:00.000-07:002008-09-16T08:59:12.237-07:00"In The Studio" new works by Randal Gordy Lee<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo1YeGms6wy5xe6wLGP4DdyUWn9mZwCDIq0YRxK62DyhIo3CHfumuBI1Jxyz0krD9JFDvZ_pzdPyDM_oluOB1wqEI2mipxh7mJZmm-GG0bRXsSdWjg2EzMCaXoIEZLCslORyBTsasDaUb8/s1600-h/studio3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245874248532028018" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo1YeGms6wy5xe6wLGP4DdyUWn9mZwCDIq0YRxK62DyhIo3CHfumuBI1Jxyz0krD9JFDvZ_pzdPyDM_oluOB1wqEI2mipxh7mJZmm-GG0bRXsSdWjg2EzMCaXoIEZLCslORyBTsasDaUb8/s320/studio3.jpg" border="0" /></a> <em><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"><strong>"Home"</strong> acrylic on board, 42"X58", 2008</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">My paintings are composed from many sketches from journals that I write and draw in nearly every day. From these sketches certain compositions and postures haunt me and I have a need to repeat them. </span></em><em><span style="font-size:85%;">It is only when they find themselves in the process of the painting that I find a home for the image that I need to express. Sometimes this comes quickly and sometimes it will take longer than the rest of the paintings I am working on combined.</span></em><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245901656448908674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3GvQ-g5-Bh5KRy-ZyA0Z8_qm0bXr9rBrilDfTb48EYt3vVTTxvyDXOzQvKuj7pv3LBf3DhogQB409FVmH1einIdbkigXKB8YOMucQkbt65wMBnIrYiJk93dZ4hJffrmZF7BB_Z5NAqBN2/s320/starling.jpg" border="0" /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><em><strong>"Starling"</strong> acrylic on board, 42"X58", 2008</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>I like the strength that line can give to two dimensional painting. The play with perspective, showing as much of a story in a confined space, and leaving allot for ones imagination to fill in the rest. In part these paintings are as much a mystery of what they will become for me as they for the audience.</em></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5NvRzzaGcHWJrEPaEO0NlS4H-BRBFGAy3_KbfTQ-xljJcUqYlzO4lc-AYrReZkpZPDsConekjP9LZPfFAwnetfKSv7grSRp2JaSZPkmrnFuT3t-QmcbNbJxF09SdwhYh4dVuF8xjD9lwA/s1600-h/writerblock.jpg"><strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245904107421824178" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5NvRzzaGcHWJrEPaEO0NlS4H-BRBFGAy3_KbfTQ-xljJcUqYlzO4lc-AYrReZkpZPDsConekjP9LZPfFAwnetfKSv7grSRp2JaSZPkmrnFuT3t-QmcbNbJxF09SdwhYh4dVuF8xjD9lwA/s320/writerblock.jpg" border="0" /></strong></a></span></em> <em><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>"Writer's Block"</strong> acrylic on board, 42"X58", 2008</span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">This series of paintings and sketches has been greatly about solidarity. There has been allot of change in my life in the past few years and this has been the first story of work since these changes. The paintings, because of the devoted time it takes to make them have much more significant meaning to my expressionist style than the completed ink works in my recent past.</span></em><br /><br /></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">In my next blog I will talk about the change in my ink work and how I feel it is different in its process to the paintings I have been doing in the past eight years.</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLG82pJQqhsANjUxS7iXv6rV6cPMQ7_Rhow2Xz3PHX-K8LwrIXXl_hO2prFshVu2vzhh08BZq6SoI3jczH6O5FmXbYj683FSn1GtwlZ6mAvQblNMZvPXuqZUOUug7YKFhtWoRXg8XcWkS/s1600-h/studio1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245907075771260738" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLG82pJQqhsANjUxS7iXv6rV6cPMQ7_Rhow2Xz3PHX-K8LwrIXXl_hO2prFshVu2vzhh08BZq6SoI3jczH6O5FmXbYj683FSn1GtwlZ6mAvQblNMZvPXuqZUOUug7YKFhtWoRXg8XcWkS/s320/studio1.jpg" border="0" /></a> "Writer's Block" acrylic on canvas, 42"X58"<br /><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em>Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-30786081730264608902008-09-04T16:27:00.000-07:002008-09-07T06:25:43.468-07:00"In The Studio" new works by Randal Gordy Lee<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFpqWBQkSOA7IpYPgeDzfZ1xDZhI6YboFbxvJVv2DxepXx929_SgZYcfU5TG-xNW75QlPGZA-hLVqU4yTCp6sWfmocMSlFd2NILWEm8QtJ6ORhQsKvVQq0sCM-B0I-qo33HDxsZckl6tpi/s1600-h/studio2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242316451804881842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFpqWBQkSOA7IpYPgeDzfZ1xDZhI6YboFbxvJVv2DxepXx929_SgZYcfU5TG-xNW75QlPGZA-hLVqU4yTCp6sWfmocMSlFd2NILWEm8QtJ6ORhQsKvVQq0sCM-B0I-qo33HDxsZckl6tpi/s320/studio2.jpg" border="0" /></a><em><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000099;">"In The Studio 1" 50"X50"</span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000099;">acrylic on canvas, 2008</span></em></div><div align="center"><em></em><br />I am an expressionist with an attraction to line, which is very present in my paintings. I’m a modern romantic that loves to portray narratives in timeless settings that tell stories through theatrical moments.<br />“In The Studio” is a series of works that are the result of several sketchbooks that I had done in the cold winter months. The feel of line at winter, especially on very cold sunny mornings, is sharp, hard, and reflects quickly from the surface.<br />I was born and raised in Nova Scotia. I have lived in Toronto for the past eight years with my wife and two children. Before coming to Toronto, I lived in Vancouver, B.C., and Canmore, Alberta. I have no formal art education, but I was encouraged early on in life by my Mother to explore and nurture my interests and talents in art.<br />I had personal art tutors in high school and I was home schooled in the three years of junior high school.<br />I was an avid bird watcher; John James Audubon and Robert Bateman were admired. Later I became fascinated in architecture and designers like Frank Lloyd Wright. Edgar Degas and William Blake I loved for gesture, form and anatomy and the power of story through art. Later I would find a connection in Edvard Munch for his raw soul searching expressionism.<br />While living in Toronto, I have been in several group shows and art auctions, such as RAW (Riverdale Art Walk), Sunnybrook Art Auction, Art Party, Exile Group show and many others.<br /><br /></div><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242314831210752642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMRInNGR2Ee9VL8YLx0kKZIhmb3JRq6GPsXp0l9LtmDPbsyzvqbQgKLefR73rwEpMnKnVLDr4Iedc0XaBK-_SA515MHqGc96mHXk1YCdqyvEZX2CwNfNU-eK6s1nf2xQKSR9vgTxg7B4il/s320/instudio1.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000099;"><em>"In The Studio 2" 48"X62"<br />acrylic on canvas, 2008</em></span><br /><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-7189362388882649402007-07-31T06:51:00.001-07:002008-12-11T17:39:12.504-08:00Waiting<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbTtGNkh1dkxHr7DqxI4rqtWqQxiCrCKrrEo4wbj8TbLgI4Bv-0-KhtirLRgttbztYj9T3a5VteosSdQkXtDZBzaGKGlKQJ7ceXo6GOeGsujAxMTgAVTzVgIwep1jx0VBe2cAvPEYNLsqQ/s1600-h/waiting.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093473929162395698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbTtGNkh1dkxHr7DqxI4rqtWqQxiCrCKrrEo4wbj8TbLgI4Bv-0-KhtirLRgttbztYj9T3a5VteosSdQkXtDZBzaGKGlKQJ7ceXo6GOeGsujAxMTgAVTzVgIwep1jx0VBe2cAvPEYNLsqQ/s320/waiting.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I still see a glow after I close my eyes.<br />I find myself thinking of home again.<br />The battered bulb,<br />The incessant moth,<br />The acrid summer night, lost in my own back yard.<br />Shooting beer bottles of the lightning rods.<br />Burning the earth to stone.<br />Pounding the deafening night with music,<br />Trying hard to escape the home I never sought.<br />Now I try to slow down as my speeding past accelerates to infinity,<br />The black tar of reality.<br />I will return too broken bottles and empty chairs,<br />Stars left lonely waiting to stare down on me,<br />And the thoughts that took me away from there.</span></div>Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-65094173112745157582007-07-13T09:31:00.001-07:002008-12-11T17:39:12.958-08:00One<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bi2wtNXN2B7kM9jj2oSmz_8MeIzPYxr0cH0miw4cISeIRoaRdFPHpgKV-mIWLLhRjpRc5isd_qQbI5_vH2DWnQmqBTXdoryV-16HA3mxOFu1BmMeBXPGU0g9GEMn2WRFUZcNsv7_1-VG/s1600-h/One.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086720203096125394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bi2wtNXN2B7kM9jj2oSmz_8MeIzPYxr0cH0miw4cISeIRoaRdFPHpgKV-mIWLLhRjpRc5isd_qQbI5_vH2DWnQmqBTXdoryV-16HA3mxOFu1BmMeBXPGU0g9GEMn2WRFUZcNsv7_1-VG/s400/One.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />"One" acrylic on canvas, 72"x96", 2002<br /><br /><div align="justify">When I was in the process of making this painting, I became engaged to my wife Danielle.<br />Aside from some mural work this was the largest painting on canvas I had done to date. I was not living with Danielle at the time, and I could not paint it in the studio I was presently in because of its sheer size. So some really great and wonderfully creative friends of mine lent me the living room of their house for two months. I thank Norman, Annie, Bernice, and Mark very much for the fun afternoons of painting in their beautiful home. On weekends Norman would invite friends over, turn the couch towards the canvas (at distance), and people would watch me paint. The images are very forefront. Exposed in their sparse bedroom at dawn, a barren light bulb flicked on, and the figures so oversized that one cannot help but feel like they are intruding. It is a very voyeuristic painting. So I guess, in this context, very appropriate that I had an audience at times watching me expose this painting to reality.<br /><br /></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div></div>Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-87486670661655173992007-07-12T10:59:00.000-07:002008-12-11T17:39:13.238-08:00New Study<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitL_HmrD-x1lgR2SiLIYlOB2auylIGvBSoK5V3S1ufuWL_2NjwJZg41nZlZnqbspw3e6z9emMlz7WfkvW73X6hcR9Tg9JsD0T00d9xcRSnC2WImn5F5wGZzvr2_kcNZyWz4j8NJ_GyWgNX/s1600-h/wcstudy1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086371967147765698" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitL_HmrD-x1lgR2SiLIYlOB2auylIGvBSoK5V3S1ufuWL_2NjwJZg41nZlZnqbspw3e6z9emMlz7WfkvW73X6hcR9Tg9JsD0T00d9xcRSnC2WImn5F5wGZzvr2_kcNZyWz4j8NJ_GyWgNX/s320/wcstudy1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br />I started on some watercolors this weekend. A continuation of the last series of inks I had done. The imagery is similar, manipulating human form to express mood. There is something in this that I want to see more of. The placement of the form in a super exposed environment, leaving a stark reality to the disfigured form’s nakedness, a desert, an ocean, places that the self can't hide but can very much be forgotten by society.<br /><br />There is always a key or a way out of our hardships but we are often unaware of them because of the fury of negative thoughts we are overburden by. How many times does one today, stop for even one moment to not think about anything without the wave of, "must do this, and must do that", washing up upon our shores of rushed responsibilities.<br /><br />I've been puttering at cleaning up my studio. So much paper, so many little things that I don't know what to do with. Things that you know would get used if they had a proper place to be remembered.<br />Thoughts are like this. Our awareness of our environment is like this. Coincidence is not some gift given to guide our direction, but rather your sudden awareness of something that was always there in front of our eyes wide shut. It is when the mind is quiet from our stress and responsibilities that we can organize the clutter, giving a proper place for those thoughts we need to express. <br /><br />I would not want to know myself if I had not continued to write and create art and be inspired. If I had let the gods of hopelessness and anger and depression blind me of what I could become, then I would be an empty spirit waiting till the end.<br /><br />Your glass is never meant to be full because one needs room to fill it.</div>Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380984045019588412.post-80368350307636772292007-07-11T09:14:00.000-07:002008-12-11T17:39:13.704-08:00The beginning<div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHRmG44l0cZYskP__3iYPM4Wuuw3FcG8S1yrB7G8pwSGfCtdJHAdwcmKfr6YszIqiyjve8HbQKvh81wHteK3iVgP9Puh02NJiPWPhxPKWZEC5B6F3Gz_oNLjEsfsn5GbVbpJwDf9QNLTU/s1600-h/inhand2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085973948220097746" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHRmG44l0cZYskP__3iYPM4Wuuw3FcG8S1yrB7G8pwSGfCtdJHAdwcmKfr6YszIqiyjve8HbQKvh81wHteK3iVgP9Puh02NJiPWPhxPKWZEC5B6F3Gz_oNLjEsfsn5GbVbpJwDf9QNLTU/s400/inhand2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div align="left">The Beginning<br /><br /><br />This blog is my own way to communicate my views about life and art, my loves, my losses, my revelations, my growth in being human.<br /><br />I hope to find a little of my past, and dream a little of my future. But mostly I wish to focus on myself, in the now, and in the present moment, snapshots of my thoughts without what could be or could have been, making best of the present.<br /><br /><br />I have had more time recently at home due to minor surgery caused my Cohn’s disease. I usually write in my journal everyday, but I decided I would try and get with the times and try this blog. I sketch and write allot but a new business that my wife, Danielle, and I opened a year and a half ago has taken up allot of my time, so my time to visit my old art friends, do the gallery hop and promote my work has become less important than just making sure that the story of my work represents me. We also have two beautiful children, Elliott who is 3-1/2 and Polly Joe who is 1-1/2. They are a huge handful, but they open your eyes to what is so great about life and never fail to amaze you in the way they perceive and approach living and adapting.<br /><br />Last fall my wife was diagnosed with locally advanced breast cancer. She, a powerful pillar in my life, has cemented the belief in me that she is a hero. To have gone through the battle she has endured in the past nine months to keep cancer from conquering her spirit gives me great pride in being her husband. Her recent CT scan showed negative to any spread, and her tumor markers are normal. She has changed to a macrobiotic diet and meditates as often as she can. She fully understands the importance of living in the moment.<br /><br /><br />The name of this blog is TAR, Toronto Art Revival. Whether this name will go any farther than these pages, I can't say. It is just a name and what will come will hopefully give it definition. </div>Randal Gordy Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488273626969597269noreply@blogger.com0