The Art Of Noticing - Winnipeg

Fantastic work of a miniature kind. A 1/12th scale gallery with 90 original works of art delicately framed. Larger works surround the space mirroring the kind and variety of work the artist has made over the decades.

SAYSOME more....No.4

New issue of Saysome is out! Available for free at Comic Factory in Winnipeg and a few scattered locations in the Exchange area. If you are out of town, e-mail me (nak@mts.net) your postal address
and I will send you a copy!

8pgs. Mini comic format. Mostly abstract-ed ink drawings/doodles...INklings! A couple Meanwhile...strips, and the continuing visual adventure of Super Secret Abstract Gadget Man.

From Jungle to Jungle

1981, acrylic on illustration board, 20 x 30 inches, (top part is cut off)

Another 30 Year post for your retro pleasure. This is my 5th painting. ( you can see the first four in my May 2011 post ) As my first four paintings were done while finishing high school, this painting was done in a summer limbo period before an unknown future of not going back to school and not having a job. One can see some obvious influences such as a Frazetta, Whelan or Boris setting and the use of a Kull or Krull figure from a comic magazine Bizarre Adventures #26. I thought at the time I had quite an original idea with the juxtaposition of the two different worlds, a theme that would be prevalent in many future work. Wait a sec, It already has been prevelant in my previous three paintings. Funny. I remember feeling really at home painting the buildings without any reference, but I was stumped by how to paint the vegetation. To this day I still really like this one, though I cringe a little bit for the swipes of reference. Hey, I was only 17. I am amazed that I kept track of how long it took me to paint the different parts of the painting and how long I spent on preliminary drawings etc. In total, 63 hours.