DUAL LIVE PAINTING DEMO BY JEFF SIMPSON & KEITA MORIMOTO

We are pleased to announce our first Dual Live Painting Demo, with artists Jeff Simpson and Keita Morimoto. This 4-hour workshop will feature two simultaneous demonstrations by each artist in their preferred medium. Jeff Simpson's two digital painting demonstrations will highlight techniques and process of digital painting with a focus on concept art. Keita Morimoto will paint two alla prima demonstrations from a live model, focusing on basic concepts of color and light in regards to portrait painting. There will be a 30 min period after the demonstrations for questions and discussion with each artist. Refreshments will be provided.

Jeff Simpson is a concept artist and digital illustrator currently employed by Ubisoft in Montreal Canada. A graduate of Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Jeff has been working as a concept artist for games, film, TV and editorial illustration for 6 years. His past clients include Universal Pictures, The Mill VFX, Wizards of the Coast and a variety of publishing houses.
For this presentation, Jeff will be painting in Adobe Photoshop CS6 with a Wacom Intuos 5 tablet..
Jeff's personal and professional works can be seen here:
http://jeffsimpsonkh.cghub.com/

Keita Morimoto, who moved to Canada in 2006, has exhibited his work in a several group shows around Toronto, Tokyo, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, as well as participated in a number of charity auction events to raise money for Japan relief after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In 2011, he won a painting competition organized by Paul Butler at Art Gallery of Ontario during Scotiabank Nuit Blanche and received an upcoming solo exhibition at MOCCA. He has recently finished his first solo exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel.
http://keitamorimoto.com

The event will run from 6pm - 10:45 pm on July 6th 2013 at 822 Dundas Street West, Toronto, On. Tickets are $60 and can be purchased online through the link below. Limited seats available.

For further inquiry please contact info@keitamorimoto.com

 

SOLD OUT

 ($60 refreshments included)

a reminder to myself

photo: Toyonori Kato TOM

 First, I wanted to give a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who came out to the opening of my show, Into the Wild. It really was such a great turnout because of everyone's support. I almost wanted to cry seeing so many faces that I didn't expect to see. Also, thank you so much for all the presses and emails congratulating the show.

 Today, I wanted to share a few things I've been strongly thinking about over the last couple years. That is, this idea of self being constructed through other external factors such as people whom one directly encounters or even nature one experiences. More and more I trace back whom I've met and what changed my perception, there really isn't such thing as myself but it's just one huge construct of many others' experiences affecting who I am.
 I wouldn't even have been interested in painting or even thought of pursuing painting as a career if I didn't meet or have all my amazing teachers, peers, and supportive parents who made and still make me feel like I can do it. Or even those great living and historical artists all over the world who have really made me realize that I have to work harder than I thought I should.
 I'm extremely thankful for all the individuals I've met, things people wrote, said, created, or just nature itself which inspires me, good or bad (though I don't believe in the bad experiences anyways). And this is just a note to myself so that I can keep appreciating and embracing whatever experiences that happen to come.

Happy Chinese New Year Everyone!

Some update?

 

 oil on panel 24x30"

Long time no post. I've been super busy just painting everyday for various group shows and my solo coming up next January. All my upcoming shows are listed on my website if you are curious.

Also, some of my recent paintings will be exhibited with Erin Loree's amazing paintings at Art Toronto opening this Friday. Drop by if you are in the area! :)

home, sweet home :D

I'm very delighted that my paintings have finally found their amazing home! If you are interested in seeing them, they are at Jane Harvey Lawyers' office in Fairview Mall.


Also, there's going to be my grad exhibition on the 3rd of May, which will go on for the whole weekend. I would be extremely excited to see everyone there!! :D

http://apache.ocad.ca/events_calendar/eventdetail.php?id=3530

bye!

past, present, past-present,

I just wanted to share one upcoming solo exhibition by AMAZING Tessar Lo. After the first time meeting him slightly drunk at Narwhal in my second year, he really has changed my view on art and painting practice.



http://coopercolegallery.com/exhibitions/upcoming

You don't want to miss this show if you are in the area. Instead of partying on Friday, go to galleries and see some great work! :D

Connecting the dots

It's been a long time since my last update! I've been extremely busy with my thesis work, shows and so on. I just wanted to share some photos from the Toronto Artist Project that was held last week. Lots of thanks to those who came out to see my work and the organizers of TAP who chose me as an untapped emerging artist. :D







Recently, I've been thinking about how I met all these people I know now and how they affected my perception and life path. If I did not meet even one of them, my world would have been a completely different place. I could have ended up becoming a normal salary man in Japan or I could have become a totally different painter. And I realized how little chance I had to meet some of these amazing people who hugely influenced my life. I just wanted to thank all of my friends who made my world the way it is today.


I am currently working on a gigantic 6x18-foot triptych as my final pieces for the thesis show. Hope to see you at the OCADU Grad Ex on May 2nd :D


night.

time-lapse painting process (a pre-christmas gift to all)

Hello all,

First, I'd like to share time-lapse process shots of a painting I did this semester.







I'm finally half way through my thesis year. My ideas have been shifting around but it's definitely becoming more solid so I can work more ambitiously in the next semester. I've been pushing myself to create a body of work that I personally do not feel comfortable to be around. There is something specifically intriguing about visual and ideological disturbance.



And, this is a little speak peek of how my studio space was looking like before my thesis critique. Indeed, a junkyard.


Happy holidays!!! :D