“app 4 idle hours 2”
acrylic, pencils, ink, & oil on canvas
20 x 16 in © 2013 Gabriel Navar
Getting ready for the new year, 2014…. it should be a red-hot creative, prosperous, and fun year…. ring it in with passion and inspiration!!
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Idle Hours
“app 4 idle hours”
acrylic, pencils, ink, & oil on canvas
20 x 16 in © 2013 Gabriel Navar
Live Long and Prosper
“app 2 live long and prosper”
acrylic, pencils, ink, & oil on wood board
15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in © 2013 Gabriel Navar
As we come to the end of 2013, I have decided to paint an image of Mr. Spock, a beloved iconic character from Star Trek. He is, of course, famously known for saying: “Live Long and Prosper”. Have a happy new and prosperous year !
Instant Rain
“app 4 instant rain”
acrylic, pencils, ink, & oil on board
28 x 22 in © 2013 Gabriel Navar
We’ve been having record-setting dry conditions in California (since records started being kept back in 1849)…. we need rain! Perhaps this situation contributed to my creating this painting where I created a composite involving a pre-Columbian rain deity (Chaac, for the Maya, Tlaloc for the Mexica) that was associated with abundance, storms, lightning bolts, and the symbol/logo of DC Comics’ superhero Shazam (the yellow lightning bolt) emblazoned on his eye-popping, overly-saturated red shirt.
A MAD selfie
“app 2 remain fortunate 2”
acrylic, pencils, ink, & oil on board
28 x 22 in © 2013 Gabriel Navar
Have always been a fan of MAD Magazine… these have been MAD times (yet fun and productive)…. so, this is a sort of “tribute” to an Alfred E. Neuman selfie… enjoy!
red paint, anyone?
“app 2 remain fortunate”
acrylic, pencils, ink, & oil on board
28 x 22 in © 2013 Gabriel Navar
Sunken
“SUNKEN, UNSWOLLEN SUNRISES”
MIXED MEDIA ON WOOD
48 x 48 in © 1992 GABRIEL NAVAR
This painting was created in Oakland and while I was a student at California State University, East Bay (Hayward)… I began by creating a ceramic relief owl motif and worked around it…. below the owl, for instance, there is a pool of forms that represent excrement (crap!!!)… it was a sort of statement about societal bullshit and the sort of spiritual healing and wisdom that needs to occur. Behind the foreground, there is a nightmarish scene of foreboding hills and, at the top of the composition, hooks and bodies….. enjoy
I go cuckoo for cocoa puffs
“app 2 embody old school 5”
acrylic, pencils, ink, & oil on canvas board
10 x 8 in © 2013 Gabriel Navar
In this painting Sonny the Cuckoo Bird is going cuckoo over the text message he just received.
The Beauty and The Hulk
“app 2 embody old school 4”
acrylic, pencils, ink, & oil on canvas board
12 x 9 in © 2013 Gabriel Navar
Stay strong, humorous and sexy during these cold days…
Gabriel Navar
A Famous Selfie
“app 2 embody old school 3”
acrylic, pencils, ink, & oil on canvas board
12 x 9 in © 2013 Gabriel Navar
On this very cold first week of December, I decided to do a composite painting that involves a “bandaged-ear” van Gogh in the midst of a selfie while predominantly warm colours burst to keep us all warm!
Gabriel Navar 