BIG FOOT is Back Home!

Dear friends,

The work of art that I created for the CRYPTID ENCOUNTERS group exhibition at the Hive Gallery in Los Angeles just arrived back home! It was a cool exhibition and I had fun creating this piece.

Not only do I love everything related to cryptozoology and mysteries, the process for creating this piece was fascinating and complicated. My long walks in the forest and the infinite hours I have spent with Robert Stack while watching Unsolved Mysteries my whole life did help for the inspiration, but creating the inner frame piece was something else! I wasn’t sure what to do but when I got the idea to recreate the iconic foot print that gave the Big Foot his name, it was clear that I had to do it! But how?

After I painted a woodland scenery with our elusive monster lurking in the background, I sculpted the foot print in Sculpey clay. I first had to make a flat, rectangular piece with the clay so that it would fit in the frame. For this I used a few sculpting tools and my bare hands. I then framed it and mounted it on the canvas with heavy acrylic gel and staples on the back. It took a while for me to figure out my approach with this one but I am quite fond of the final product and I hope you like it too!

BIGFOOT
Acrylic on Stretched Canvas & Framed Sculpey Clay
11" x 14"
2024


Copyright (C) 2024 Pascal Leo Cormier. All Rights Reserved.

www.pascalleocormier.com

The Forest For The Trees is Back Home

My painting “The Forest For The Trees” is finally back in my hands after having been in the group exhibition EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK at the La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles!

I did make a small change on it upon receiving it, I repainted the clouds at the bottom. They bothered me a little bit and now I am much happier with it and I love it.

So here it is!

The Forest For The Trees
Acrylic on Stretched Canvas & Framed Canvas Panel
12” x 12”
2024
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Art Classes at UNB Art Center

This month I will start giving acrylic painting classes at the UNB Art Center in Fredericton.

My classes will be for beginners who want to learn some basics of acrylic painting I will focus on color theory, composition and every little thing in between which will enable you to create your very own vision on canvas.

The fall classes will be on Wednesdays between October 23rd until November 27th between 6PM - 8PM and the winter classes will be on Tuesdays between February 4th until March 18th between 6PM - 8PM.

The classes take place at the UNB Memorial Hall at 9 Bailey Drive, Room 26. You can register HERE if you are in the area and are interested. I will also start giving classes at the Charlotte Street Art Center in the month of March.

On another note, I am working on a new series for a small group exhibition in Campbellton for next month which will be officially announced soon. This show will have a lot of new works with a few older ones and I am thinking a lot in terms of patterns and abstractions lately, with my usual artwork within artwork of course. We will see where it goes…

New Works

I recently visited my artist friend Guy Vézina in his studio for a painting session, he did a portrait of me for a big project he is working on and I improvised a landscape. We are planning a collaboration soon, but that is not the reason I am writing today. The small landscape that I was working on that I finished at home and entitled “Self-Titled” sent me on a journey to create a series of 8” x 10” paintings. I created four pieces so far and I have 6 new ones in progress. I am not certain how many I’ll make and I am still looking for a space to exhibit them, but in the mean time I thought I would share what I have done so far.

Self-Titled
Acrylic on Stretched Canvas & Canvas Panel
8” x 10”
2024

Pink Sky Lullaby
Acrylic on Canvas Panels
8” x 10”
2024

Reading Between The Trees
Acrylic on Canvas Panels
8” x 10”
2024

The Right Hand Path
Acrylic on Canvas Panels
8” x 10”
2024

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The Forest For The Trees

Every year, the LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY in Los Angeles has a group exhibition called EVERTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK (EBTKS) in which they feature over 100 artists exhibiting works of art that are 12" x 12". I am very happy to be apart of this year's EBTKS! For the exhibition I created a painting entitled "The Forest For The Trees", which comes from the saying "I can not see the forest for the trees", meaning to fail to see the whole picture of an issue and to get lost in the details. Here it is!

The Forest For The Trees
Acrylic on Stretched Canvas and Framed Canvas Panel
12" x 12"
2024

Copyright (C) 2024 Pascal Leo Cormier. All Rights Reserved.

www.pascalleocormier.com

BIGFOOT

Dear friends, here is the work of art that I created for the CRYPTID ENCOUNTERS group exhibition at the Hive Gallery in Los Angeles! I had fun creating this piece. My favorite television show has always been, to this day, Unsolved Mysteries. So the topic of cryptid has always fascinated me. For this piece I painted a woodland scenery with our elusive monster lurking in the background, and for my inner frame I chose to create the iconic foot print that gave the Bigfoot its name. I sculpted the foot print in sculpey clay, framed it and mounted it on the canvas with heavy acrylic gel with staples on the back. It took a while for me to figure out my approach with this one but I am quite fond of the final product and I hope you like it too!

BIGFOOT
Acrylic on Stretched Canvas & Framed Sculpey Clay
11" x 14"
2024


Copyright (C) 2024 Pascal Leo Cormier. All Rights Reserved.

www.pascalleocormier.com

EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK @ La Luz De Jesus (Los Angeles)

I am glad to announce that I will be part of this year's EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK group exhibition at the La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles during the month of August! The opening will be on Friday August 2nd from 7PM - 11PM!