Roger Albert: Paintings -Drawings -Prints

Who knows where this guy came from. 2013 (I think) Bravo!

This is my latest painting. It's acrylic, 36X31 inches. The image is taken from a photo by crew aboard the SVCurtsy in Pender Harbour. The tugboat that inspired this painting is now at the bottom of the Harbour. Recently SOLD at auction.

Winter Sunrise on the Courtenay River estuary. This is an acrylic painting 40X 30 something. Sold at auction last year in Victoria at a Together Against Poverty Society fundraiser. 

So, Winston is a bloodhound rescued by my longtime friend, Bill Brehl who lives near Ottawa.  He's a great guy and a rescuer of bloodhounds along with his wife, Andrea Brehl.  They have 3 bloodhounds and assorted other pets.  Bill took a picture of one of his bloodhounds, Winston, as he was staring out the window during a rainstorm.  I was inspired by Bill's photo to do this acrylic painting of Winston.  It was great fun to do.  I've wanted to use the 'chiaroscuro' technique for some time and this painting demonstrates that (in my mind).  It's 16X20 inches. It lives with Bill and Andrea.

The top painting here is acrylic, 24X24 inches.  The bottom image is a hand-painted (in watercolour) intaglio print 9X12 inches.  Both are for sale in the Project Watershed online auction on its Keeping It Living website.  SOLD

March 2013

Created for my granddaughters for Christmas 2012.

This is a large acrylic on canvas painting in my derelict boat series. Sold at the last Comox Valley Art Gallery Auction.

This is a drawing from a photograph using only a #7 2B mechanical pencil. I'm getting tired of packing a whole range of pencils around. I've been wanting to draw this scene since 2007. Just got around to it this summer. Glad I did.

This is a drawing I did from a photo my wife, Carolyn, took while we were hiking in the Alps in 2007.

Acrylic 36X44.

This is a conté drawing done in 20 minutes or so. I draw with The Cumberland Lifers. Check out our blog noted below. I no longer have this piece...it now lives in Victoria.

Another acrylic painting in my boat series. This one is 24"X24". It just sold at auction so it wasn't in my life a long time, but I enjoyed painting it. Another acrylic painting of the same derelict tugboat. Same size as the one above. SOLD at auction.

I did this simple coloured pencil drawing years ago. I'm going to use it as the basis of a painting soon.

Forest Floor (acrylic, 24X30) Cobra Fern (acrylic, 24X30) Languid Liquid (acrylic 24 X 48 inches)

The photo doesn't do this piece full credit. The actual painting in acrylic (16"X20").

I hope that it's obvious that it's a self portrait.  In a political frame of mind recently, I titled this piece: The Colonial Master Gazer. That works, I think but from that perspective it's a little embarrassing that I'm the model for the piece. Whatever, I think it works whatever I call it.  My daughter, Marika, is in possession of this piece.

The three images here are linked. The first image is of a Balinese wall plaque that we bought some time ago. For a project in silk screening class I put together an image derived from the mask that I call Bali Weeping as a commentary on colonialism and the loss of Balinese culture via westernization. The third image is a monoprint. It was created as the print series was created. There are 9 colour 'pulls' for my Bali Weeping print, 9 separate screens that must be used for the 9 different colours involved. Every time I pulled a colour on the print I also pulled it on the monoprint so that every pull is present on the monoprint but in a very different relationship to the 'regular' print. I like the effect and it is definitely one of a kind.

This portrait is very light and ethereal, with a very unusual perspective for a portrait. I did this long ago, but I still like it and thought I'd share it with you! It's 8½X11 in hard pencil.