Duncan Weller - Illustration+ Paintings
This is an oil portrait of Evgenia Deichman, a sixteen year old Russian immigrant who commissioned me to paint her as "The Girl With The Pearl Ear Ring" by Dutch master Jan Vermeer. Evgenia's high school history teacher told her she resembled the mysterious woman with the turban.
These two long pencil drawings are thematic sketches for the third book in the series of what I call the Venus Trilogy (Night Wall, Lara Wood, and Stolen Snails). These drawings will hopefully be used as interior book ends for the story.
With 160 pages, 20 drawings, and a cover illustration, this adult poetry book is awaiting a publisher. A medium sized alkyd painting was created for the book jacket. The book was designed by Doug McCaffry. All images have been scanned and the book is ready for print.
This large oil painting sold in a show at a popular gelato shop in North Vancouver. It was meant to be the first in a series of paintings, but the ideas were put on hold as a result of my restless relocation habits.
What started as a commissioned portrait for this young girl's mother became the inspiration for a strange story about imagination and courage in the face of tragedy. When I asked the young girl how she wanted to be drawn, she said, "I want you to draw me riding on my rat Henry." Because of dramatic and tragic events within the girl's family I was left with the drawing. These events partly inspired the story, and the drawing grew in size and detail.
This small oil painting was a gift to a friend after visiting Quebec years ago.
This small pen and ink work is an illustration for a poem in my as yet unpublished book Tettrennial Drift.
I created a fun and wild style of abstracted characters using a scratch technique with pins stuck through an eraser.
This painting, based on a quick sketch of a staircase, is a medium sized oil painting originally meant to be the cover for Tettrennial Drift. This painting was used as a part of a set for a stage play called "I Hate Hamlet!" During the fighting scenes I was worried the actors would put their swords through the canvas. The painting survived and I still enjoy Hamlet.
This is a very large acrylic painting I did for fun after moving into a small bachelor apartment in Victoria, B.C. There have been three serious attempts to buy the painting. This painting and several other similar paintings were used on the sets of a few television series shot in Vancouver.
