by Michael Whelan | Dec 7, 2022
Synchronicity is a mysterious force that I’ve felt at play from time to time. Related events seems to happen in harmony with each other out of sheer coincidence. During the late winter cold last February, I spotted this creature among brush marks on my drawing... 
by Michael Everett | Nov 2, 2022
I was in a mood to paint faces when I saw these two in random brushstrokes on a palette. 
by Michael Whelan | Oct 19, 2022
Pushing around leftover paint resulted in a shape reminiscent of trees in my End of Nature series. Further exploration led to what might become a large painting one day. Thematically these paintings focus on our eroding relationship with nature. Without care and... 
by Michael Whelan | Oct 5, 2022
A proper “leftover” since this incorporates colors from a palette I was about to discard. I set scraps of canvas on my drawing table with the intention of scrawling random shapes and seeing what happened. When I laid them lengthways, I was inclined to... 
by Michael Whelan | Sep 21, 2022
At an exhibition some years ago, Jordu Schell and I were comparing notes on work that truly made us shudder. Jordu is a master VFX artist and sculptor who has a long history in the “horror” business. I wondered if there were things that really scared him.... 
by Michael Everett | Sep 7, 2022
I employed this palette as a squeegee in a smeared-paint experiment that never amounted to anything, but the accidental patterns left sparked my imagination. Early on I saw rough landscape forms hidden there. The scene that developed on top of that was no doubt... 
by Michael Whelan | Aug 17, 2022
Like most of my Leftovers and Palette Gremlins, this was born from accident, inspiration, and materials at hand. The palette of warm tones came from a recently completed painting. The graduated blue was overspray on a scrap of board. The colors reminded me of time... 
by Michael Whelan | Aug 3, 2022
The paint for this came from a leftover palette. Most of the earth tones had dried up but the blues, turquoises, and greens looked okay. When I saw the pattern they made on the paper covering the container, I set aside my intended project to work on what I saw in my... 
by Michael Whelan | Jul 6, 2022
What I saw in the accidental marks that inspired this piece was independent of color, more an idea that could be realized using almost any color scheme. I grabbed the closest paint at hand, which happened to be a palette of purplish acrylics leftover from RHYTHM OF... 
by Michael Whelan | Jun 15, 2022
Anyone familiar with my work will know how much I’m drawn to concrete. Images like this pop into my head at unexpected times. I attribute it to my early childhood experiences playing in the cement tunnels and storm drains of LA. This began with zigzagging brushstrokes... 