Doug Tiller

 
I grew up in Southern Ontario where I still live and work. Most of my last 25 years I have spent working on film crews in sets or properties.
I consider myself an illustrator. It is important for me to document and observe. I travel with a notebook and pen. I like to draw the neighbourhood, my surroundings, the city, the people, and the situation. I enjoy getting out doors to draw with watercolours, pen and ink - especially by canoe. I have been using tempera for just over 2 years. I like the fact that it is drawing, and that it is painting. It is for me the separation of colour and form. I take drawings done on location or compositions made from drawing notes, and redraw them on the panel treating the drawing as sculptural low relief. The egg tempered pigment I use as a graphic symbol over the black and white under structure - form, structure, and colour.
For a summation of an artist’s statement I could do no better than to quote John Sloan :
"Have a plastic, illustrative point of view about life rather than an artistic one....get the healthy point of view that men like Hogarth and Leech and Cruikshank had....Fill your notebooks with drawings of people in subways and lunch counters....Draw places you have seen from memory.... Get the character of the room as well as the human being in it."

 

Holding All He's Got

Incoming Storm

Head Study

 

Ist Curve of the Day

Hostages in a Snow Storm