Owen William Weber Illustration

This is a piece I just finished the other day, it's called "Mantra 1".  It's 12 5/8"x 18" in size and oil on masonite.  This was an extremely different type of painting that I was used to doing.  I hadn't painted in a while, and was feeling that itch, so I just took a piece of masonite I had lying around, coated it with matte medium, and just started painting a springbok antler I own.  No drawing, just paint.  I can't think of the last time I did that, possibly never.  It came out looking pretty good, and I then started turning the painting into, what I thought was a cool concept.  A couple days later I looked at it after a particularly hard day at the workplace.  I realized why I was in such a bad mood, the painting I had been staring at for the past few days was awful.  It was really stupid.  I was taking the life out of the antler that I had so lovingly painted.  So I took up a mixture of burnt umber, ultramarine, payne's grey, a...

No Further, 14" x 24", Oil on Paper on Masonite, 2012  Finally, I have finished this piece.  I photographed the model back in October, finished the drawing in November, then got a couple jobs, planned a wedding, got married and went on a honeymoon.  Once we got back from Croatia, I finally had some time to paint. This piece is meant to be in something of a series that I'm slowly working on with "December Maple".  They both have a similar feeling, with a figure reacting to and interacting with nature.  I want to show a sense of memory with these paintings, a feeling of solitude, oneness with nature, and a slight sense of longing.  This piece is more tragic than "December Maple", there's more despair and loss with this piece.  I can't wait to work on more of this series, it really gives me fulfillment as an artist.