Chris Gill
I am deep into retirement, some twenty-six years deep. These cartoons I do are a way of crystallizing what I see and hear, understand or fail to understand.
The style is obvious: loose, sketchy, light. To date, I have used Corel Painter to 'watercolour' the sketches. I will be trying ink line sketches for a time.
I do real watercolour paintings, increasingly often these days.
Occasionally, pieces are published. I do some philosophical ones, since I am trained academically in the subject and have pursued my interest in the subject during my life, and these have appeared in the British magazine, Philosophy Now. Other than that, I simply distribute new sketches to those of my friends and acquaintances who say they'd be interested. Anyone who reads this and would like to see the new efforts, email me: chrisgill1937@gmail.com.
The themes in my work:
-Domesticata
-Philosophy
-Culture
-Politics
Bio details: born 1937, grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and retired to Petite Riviere, Nova Scotia in 1993.
Education: BA Hons (English and Philosophy), Trinity College, University of Toronto, MA University of Toronto, Philosophy
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