Earth, Wind, Fire and Water tattoo in progress.

This is a photoshopped mock up 

of what I am aiming towards for the final sleeve...

This is another photoshopped mock up 

of what I am aiming towards for the final sleeve...

A new version of the Earth, wind, Fire and Water motif

A new version of the Earth, wind, Fire and Water motifs,

this time on a very small scale, only 2 inches by 4 inches,

tiny little canvases.

Earth, Wind, Fire, Water 3

pencil and acrylic on canvas, digital colour

Earth 3

pencil and Acrylic on canvas, 2" x 4"

Wind 3

pencil and Acrylic on canvas, 2" x 4"

Fire 3

pencil and Acrylic on canvas, 2" x 4"

Water 3

pencil and Acrylic on canvas, 2" x 4"

Eggs, An Archive of sorts

Eggs: An Archive of sorts

Eggs

(An Archive of sorts)

 

This grows in my egg....

always.

Born in my Heart,

I nurture it with my every Joy,

And radiate Gratitude on it...

And my Sacred Fractal Flower

Waits patiently in its egg,

In the center of my Soul

Yearning to Share,

of it's blossom,

Its fragrance,

its nectar.

 

 

Egg 10.0

Perseverance

always pays off.

Earth, Wind, Fire and Water #2

I'm happy to unveil my newest Earth, Wind, Fire and Water study,

which I have done on a very small scale, at only 4" x 4" each.

However, the level of detail in these paintings is almost as much

(or more) than I put in to the previous larger EWFW series.

What I am hoping to do with these elemental paintings as they progress,

is portray these elements in visual ways that may be 

recognizable a first glance as what they are intended to be, 

but not because they are relying on visual cliches,

the more common visual cues commonly used 

to portray the elements. 

I am attempting to avoid these visual cliches of the 

elements altogether, and portray them in a ways that 

call attention to their similarities, more than their differences.

There is a fluidity throughout the paintings, 

that speaks to the fluidity of all things in time, 

especially the elements, which each unfold with their

turbulently chaotic fractal waves of organic perfection.

All is fluid. Regard the Earth, mountains, glaciers, 

forests, vast oceans, rolling around in a perfect sphere in outer space.

Please contact me directly for info on prices. 

Beautiful canvas giclee prints will be 

available soon at affordable prices!

Earth, Wind, Fire and Water 2

Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4"

(displayed as designed, vertically)

Water 2

Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4"

 Fire 2

Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4"

Wind 2

Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4"

Earth 2

Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4"

Earth, Wind, Fire and Water 2

Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4" each

(displayed horizontally)

Earth, Wind, Fire and Water 2

Acrylic on canvas, 4" x 4" each

(displayed squared)

"All is fluid. Regard the Earth, mountains, glaciers, 

forests, vast oceans, rolling around in a perfect sphere in outer space.

The Earth can convulse and reinvent itself in a heartbeat.

Can you see the Wind? Emerging from the confluences of hot and cold

air, flowing around our planet in graceful sweeping, spirally 

fractals of unfolding 'weather' as we call it? 

The Wind can make the biggest city vanish in a heartbeat.

The Fire, our ally, in colder climes we perish without it.

It flows upward, away, crackling, hissing and whining, licking the open air 

hungrily, it seeks to expand through complex pockets and currents

of different temperatures of air. 

Fire can destroy everything in its path, instantly.

The Water. What else is there? Who are we but?

Oceans surround us, unfathomable in their depth, we know little 

of the oceans true nature. 

The enormity of Water's consciousness.

Water's infinite interconnected flowing 

heaving life giving network

of countless individual drops,

each one capable of storing 

more information than 

a million blueray discs....

The Water sees all. Is All. 

We are it. It is us. 

Some newly completed paintings that have been 'in progress' for a long, long time. Finally.

Newly completed works

 Kathy's Gaia

Commissioned by my sister Kathy

Acrylic on canvas, 20" x 16"

'Welcome to Hyperspace'

Acrylic on canvas, 8" x 6"

Some drawings.....

This is a small collection 

of eclectic drawings, 

from imagination only,

that were done in the last year.

Conversation #1

Shaman #1

Shaman #2

Martini with a friend

Converstation 

Alien

Earth, Wind, Fire and Water

Last year when I had an exhibit of my recent work and works in progress, I was 

approached by a close friend and long-time animation colleague of mine, to create

a series of four commissioned paintings depicting Earth, Wind, Fire and Water.

I will be delivering these soon, and I am quite happy with them.

Prints will be available, and I am happy to start take orders. 

They can be printed on high quality paper or canvas.

'Gicle's are printed on canvas and look
almost as good as the original art.

Earth 

acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12"

Wind

acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12"

Fire

acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12"

Water

acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12"

Earth, Wind, Fire and Water

A small collection of some of my smaller paintings, some are three years old, some are only three or four weeks old.

The following paintings are selected from several 

different phases of my last three year journey into painting.

I am attempting to capture, through traditional fine art 

painting techniques the very essence of 'Elemental Magic' 

that informed the special effects animation I created in 

my past creative manifestation 

as a Disney animator.

The originals are for sale, 

and I will have prints available soon,

please inquire joegilland@shaw.ca

Fluid Base 1

Pencil and acrylic on canvas, 2011

8" x 10"

Fluid Base 3

Acrylic on canvas, 2012

8" x 10"

Fluid Base 4

Acrylic on canvas, 2012

8" x 10"

Fluid Base 68

Pencil and acrylic on linen, 2014

10" x 12"

Leaving Gaia

Acrylic on linen, 2013

10" x 12

Organic Base 1

Acrylic on canvas, 2011

8" x 10"