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Aug 22, 2008

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Q&A with Gordon Leverton, “Artist”

I draw and paint buildings with pastel on paper. I walk around factory sites, alleys and run-down neighbourhoods with my camera, take pictures of buildings or doorways, walls and so on, then draw an image partially based on the photo.

The Interval

Aug 22, 2008

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The Interval

This drawing is part of a series I?m doing about people and their immediate environment. I try to draw people in the room they spend the most time in. This woman is the wife of the assistant pastor of our church. She spends most of her time with her baby son. This was...

Histories

Aug 15, 2008

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Histories

I made a list of the images in my mind as I worked on this piece. Here are some; Shipping news, plates, feasts, people, violence, symphonies, fishing lines, fragility, love, voices, planets, time. I kept on looking at the space between each colored circle.

Self Portrait with Dead Sparrow

Aug 8, 2008

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Self Portrait with Dead Sparrow

Easily recognized as a small, brown-gray bird with a short tail and stubby beak, the sparrow is quite humble. Abundant particularly in urban and degraded areas these creatures exist pleasantly, but are not seen as exceptional or attractive birds. Yet, when I found...

How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read

Aug 1, 2008

How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read

Two people can read the same text and take away two very different impressions. In this subjectivity, there is enough ambiguity for a non-reader to bluff her way through conversations with grace and, almost, heroism.