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paulboultbee.bsky.social
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November 17. #MondayArt "Low Horizon" (2016) acrylic on canvas, 10 in. x 8 in. #AbstractArt
The entire canvas is covered in a mottled ivory-coloured base with a small, rough scrapping of black across the bottom of the canvas.
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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November 10. #MondayArt "Metal Awning Noir" (2003) charcoal and chalk pastel on paper, 26 in. x 20 in. #AbstractArt
A brooding, highly abstracted view of al alcove in urban alley. Primarily black, smudged charcoal with blue-white highlights.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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November 3. #MondayArt "Shadows of Trees #4" (2011) charcoal on newspaper, 22 in, x 30 in. #AbstractArt
A large tree centred on a distressed sheet of newspaper. The tree has been created in charcoal through a reduction process in which the newspaper sheet is covered in charcoal and then the unwanted areas are removed through erasure.
November 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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October 27. #MondayArt "Window (Blue)" (2002) acrylic on board, 40 in, x 30 in. #AbstractArt
A Romanesque-style window with two interior arches, one above the other. The arches and the entire window framed roughly in yellow. The interior of the arches is predominately blue.
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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October 20. #MondayArt "Galloping Elevator" (2006) bronze, 12 in. high #AbstractArt
A skewed skeleton of a grain elevator in bronze. It appears to be moving on stylized hooves.
October 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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October 13. #MondayArt "Unbleached Intersection #1" (2018) mixed media on canvas, 30 in. x 24 in. #AbstractArt
A motley collection of coloured papers, newspaper strips, and paint on a background of unbleached titanium acrylic paint. There is an asymmetrical intersection of newspaper underlying everything, hence the title of the work.
October 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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October 6. #MondayArt "Drapery study" (2000) charcoal and conte on paper, 22 in. x 26 in. #AbstractArt
A cloth has been draped over two stools of differing heights. The drawing is in white conte and black charcoal on dark paper.
October 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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September 29. #MondayArt "Globe2Go" (2012) mixed media on canvas, 12 in. x 16 in. #AbstractArt
A torn newspaper obituary page on the left-hand side of the canvas; a torn piece of wallpaper on the right-hand side overlaid by an irregular shape created by four pieces of masking tape.
September 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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September 22. #MondayArt "Hammerhead" (2001) monoprint, 9 in. x 12 in. #AbstractArt
Black and yellow ink smeared across the paper. A distinct hammer-like image in the upper half. Black outlines around much of the smeared ink.
September 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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"Distant Field" (2009) acrylic on canvas, 24 in. x 20 in.
Upper three-quarters of the canvas is a deep blue sky. The lower quarter is a field of mottled yellows and browns.
September 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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September 15. #MondayArt "Elevator" (2011) charcoal on paper, 17 in. x 14 in. #AbstractArt
A stylized/abstracted grain elevator outlined in charcoal that has been smeared to give a ghostly image.
September 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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September 8. #MondayArt "Prairie Wind" (2006) acrylicon canvas, 18 in. x 36 in. #AbstractArt
A faint horizon line divides the canvas in two equal halves. The darker bottom half (mottled browns, yellows, and oranges); the upper half lighter greens and yellows with a deep red but faint mist to the right of the canvas.
September 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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September 1. #MondayArt "Solitude" (2014) mixed media on canvas, 10 in. x 20 in. #AbstractArt
A solid dark humanoid figure stands centre-right in the foreground. Behind the figure are three bands of mottled grey-ish colours.
September 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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August 25. #MondayArt "Paleo" (2003) charcoal on paper, 26 in. x 20 in. #AbstractArt
A series of charcoal marks reminiscent of cave drawings.
August 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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August 18. #MondayArt "Solitary Tree" (2014) charcoal on paper, 11 in. x 14 in. #AbstractArt
A lone tree stands at the right edge of the paper. All monochromatic shades of black and grey. Created via the process of charcoal reduction.
August 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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August 11. #MondayArt "Prince Edward County" (2010) photograph #AbstractArt
Weathered barn door, likely painted white originally.
August 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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August 4. #MondayArt "Cityscape #2 (Towers)" (2002) acrylic on canvas, 16 in. x 20 in. #AbstractArt
Abstracted vision of a city skyline. Streaks of green, black, and a prominent streak of yellow. The centre image of the city is surrounded by blue with white and orange highlights.
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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July 28. #MondayArt "Untitled" (2018) mixed media on canvas, 12 in. x 9 in. #AbstractArt
A highly textured canvas totally covered with a blend of unbleached titanium and Payne's grey. There is a black horizon line of sorts bisecting the canvas a third of the way down from the top. The horizon line becomes an erratic squiggle in the middle third of the line.
July 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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July 21. #MondayArt "Red Roofs" (2009) acrylic on canvas, 11 in. x 14 in. #AbstractArt
Four abstracted buildings in yellow/ochre with red pointed roofs. The buildings are heavily outlined in black with some of the black outlines extending into the blue sky. There are two small patches of dark green to signify grass on the far right and lower centre of the canvas.
July 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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July 14. #MondayArt "White Elevator" (2009) acrylic on canvas, 14 in. x 11 in. #AbstractArt
A stylized grain elevator in white with heavy black outlines against a yellow-green lower half of the canvas and a blue, with white highlights, upper half of the canvas.
July 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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July 7. #MondayArt "Bridge #2" (2008) charcoal on paper, 12 in. x 9 in. #AbstractArt
A stylized outline in black charcoal of the base and railing of a foot bridge. The charcoal lines have been slightly smeared to give the drawing some visual interest beyond just the outlines.
July 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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June 30. #MondayArt "The Other Side of Sadness" (2018) acrylic on canvas, 24 in. x 18 in. #AbstractArt
An abstract landscape with a mottled blue lake in the lower third of the canvas separated from a fiery sky in the upper third by two mountain peaks with a deep valley between the two of them.
June 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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June 23. #MondayArt "Unbleached Intersection #2" (2018) mixed media on canvas, 20 in. x 16 in. #AbstractArt
June 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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June 16. #MondayArt "Suspension" (2014) acrylic on canvas, 12 in. diameter #AbstractArt
Swirls of blue and white with red and gold accents on a round canvas. Image is reminiscent of a marble or the earth from space.
June 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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June 9. #MondayArt "Rocky Sunset" (2015) mixed media on canvas, 20 in. x 16 in. #AbstractArt
Large dark shapes resembling mountain peaks in the lower third of the canvas with streaks of blue and white painted over reds and browns in the upper two thirds of the canvas.
June 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM