W. H. Simmons
“Incoming #1”
Oil Painting
$390
Month: July 2016
Wendel
Anthony Jenkins
“Wendel”
Acrylic on table hockey game
$700
Anthony Jenkins was born in Toronto and attended the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo, graduating with a B.A. in English and Fine Art.
Between graduation and working for a living, he did the classic backpacking student summer around Europe. And was hooked….
His life’s work has been as an illustrator, cartoonist and occasional writer at the Globe and Mail, Canada’s National Newspaper, the best in the country.
Tony’s formal training in old-school silkscreen and woodcut techniques are evident in a search for elegant, as well as functional line and a simplifying and flattening of colour.
Crazily extensive (eighty-four countries to date) backpack travels on leaves-of-absence from a newspaper where he worked mostly in black and white engendered an abiding love of dramatic colour (The African nation of Mali presents an eye-popping riot of colour in a landscape of unrelenting Saharan beige.) and a heightened fascination with his overwhelming favourite subject – the human face.
His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Maclean’s Magazine, The South China Morning Post, The Melbourne Age, The Straits Times in Malaysia, in the Lonely Planet line of travel guides and on the covers of many books for various publishers.
‘Traveller’s Tales – An Illustrated Journey through Australia, Asia and Africa’ which he wrote and illustrated with his travel sketches, was released by Lonely Planet in 1985.
More recently, ‘A Fine Line; The Caricatures of Anthony Jenkins’ was published in 2013. It is available atnestlingspress.com.
Gone Ashore
Hugh Niblock
“Gone Ashore”
Watercolour
32″ x 40″
$2,000
While a philosophy undergraduate at the U of T Hugh was the cartoonist for the Varsity, the daily U newspaper. Upon graduation, he was commissioned to paint an extensive mural of university life for Hart House. This led to a year’s scholarship to study in England. He then taught art in England, where he fell in love with the profession. Back to Canada and after trying careers as a graphic artist for TV, newspapers and curating in Toronto Art Galleries, he went back to what he loved, teaching and coaching kids. He taught at Penetanguishene Secondary School until retirement. He devoted his spare time to helping to run Galerie Gale’s Art Gallery in Midland, opened to promote art and artists in the area.
Old Beauty
Keith Moreau
“Old Beauty”
Coloured Pencil
$400
Layout for this image was created July 10 at the 2016 Canada Pavilion in Brampton, Ontario and further illustration was completed by July 14 at Keith’s home studio. Keith has loved old automobiles for years now and has various works containing actual antique cars or die-cast scale models.
“Old Beauty” is in our largest exhibit yet, “A Creative Buzz” in The Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, 399 The West Mall. Show continues until 4 o’clock, Sunday, August 19, 2018.
Coloured pencil piece “Patriotic Pickup” was accepted into the second last Art of the Automobile Show and traveled to the Montreal Auto Show, the Toronto Auto Show and the Calgary Auto Show. Thirty-two works were selected from a cross Canada entry and Keith’s was one of those selected. The work is in a private collection.
Keith is the artist behind Big Art Buzz and welcomes you to the creative hive.
To see more of Keith’s artwork, check out his Facebook page.
Now with an Album “Perspective Lessons Plus”
Cross Canada Montage
Keith Moreau
“Cross Canada Montage”
Pen and Ink Stipple Drawing
N.F.S.
Featured in the 2016 Canada Pavilion Big Art Buzz Exhibit as part of Carabram.
Keith is the artist behind Big Art Buzz and welcomes you to the creative hive.
To see more of Keith’s artwork, check out his Facebook page.
Now with an Album “Perspective Lessons Plus”
Breaker
W. H. Simmons
“Breaker”
Oil Painting
16″ x 20″
$325
Jazz Quartet
Hugh Niblock
“Jazz Quartet”
Watercolour
37.5″ x 29.5″
$2,500
While a philosophy undergraduate at the U of T Hugh was the cartoonist for the Varsity, the daily U newspaper. Upon graduation, he was commissioned to paint an extensive mural of university life for Hart House. This led to a year’s scholarship to study in England. He then taught art in England, where he fell in love with the profession. Back to Canada and after trying careers as a graphic artist for TV, newspapers and curating in Toronto Art Galleries, he went back to what he loved, teaching and coaching kids. He taught at Penetanguishene Secondary School until retirement. He devoted his spare time to helping to run Galerie Gale’s Art Gallery in Midland, opened to promote art and artists in the area.
Silver Creek Snow
William Band
“Silver Creek Snow”
Watercolour
William lives in Erin Ontario and has extensive experience in drawing and painting and gladly shares that knowledge through his popular workshops.
See his work on William’s official website.
Peppered with Colour
Bridget Aubé
“Peppered with Colour”
Coloured Pencil
20.5″ x 15″
$400
Bridget Aubé 1927-2007
As a self-trained artist, Bridget worked in many mediums and excelled in all. She was a prolific talent with the main area of interest being in still life. Someone at a one-women show of her works said that she would love to learn from Bridget and Bridget responded that she wasn’t a teacher. She helped so many who worked alongside her, she was a teacher.
Food and florals often had prominence in her works but some of her still life were as simple as a pair of shoes, perfectly placed in a well designed image. Exquisite.
Contact: bigartbuzz@gmail.com to inquire about purchasing works by Bridget.