Tagged pencils

Little Bouquets of Pencils

New work available at the George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles.

Red Pencils / 16 x 12 inches / oil on canvas / 2020 / on the easel

One of the best parts of elementary school was always getting a set of new pencil crayons at the beginning of the year despite having perfectly good ones previously.

HB Pencils / 16 x 12 inches / oil on canvas / 2020 / on the easel

Smith-Corona

Smith-Corona Typewriter Painting by Christopher Stott

A Smith-Corona typewriter. Recently completed and now comfortably inspiring a new collector in New Jersey.

Several years ago I started painting a series of typewriter vignettes. Recently looking for inspiration, I found that revisiting my own paintings as a place to learn and grow from.

You can check out all of my typewriter paintings to date on Flickr → click on this link.

Smith-Corona in progress / 1 of 2
Smith-Corona in progress / 2 of 2

HB #2 Pencils & Nineteen Eighty-Four

HB #2 Pencils by Christopher Stott
HB #2 Pencils / 18 x 14 / oil on canvas

I’ve done a few more studies, although one could be seen as more of a reach back to around a decade ago when pencils seemed to figure frequently in my paintings.

These paintings will be included in the small works December exhibition at the Elliott Fouts Gallery.

Nineteen Eighty-Four Book Painting by Christopher Stott
Nineteen Eighty-Four / 18 x 14 / oil on canvas

I found a bunch of Penguin Classics that I’ll be featuring in some upcoming paintings — this painting is the first study.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of my favourite books. Although it is fascinating, I actually don’t fear that the world depicted in it is the one we live in. It’s more like the one we are afraid we live in, and the truth is we actually live in a Brave New World which seems equally as terrifying.