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Internationally collected Canadian artist & painter. Painting Landscapes With a Twist. Living along Lake Erie in Kingsville ON.
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Sketchbook of a field and a figure drawn on a wind

Sketchbook of a field and a figure drawn on a windy day.
#sketch #sketchbook #drawing #lineart #doodle

More exploration on a possible new painting or ser

More exploration on a possible new painting or series. #sketchbook #sketch #artwork #art #drawing #lineart #artwork

1 minute gestures watching Sunday afternoon baseba

1 minute gestures watching Sunday afternoon baseball. Go @tigers #sketchbook #drawing #gestues #baseball

Sunday Doodling - hands and sea life. #sketchboo

Sunday Doodling - hands and sea life. #sketchbook #sketch #drawing #figuredrawing #hands #animals #marinelife

Sunday doodling... searching for inspiration in a

Sunday doodling... searching for inspiration in a sketchbook to find my next painting....
#sketchbook #sketch #drawing

I've been struggling with the subject of my next p

I've been struggling with the subject of my next painting lately. Feeling a bit stuck and too busy with other things to concentrate. And watching a lot of September Baseball. So I drew Mr. Met @n.y.mets . I'm more of a Detroit @tigers Fan or Cleveland @cleguardians fan, but MR Met is still the best mascot. #baseball #mlb #drawing #sketch #artwork #sketchbook

Finally got around to adding a figure to this smal

Finally got around to adding a figure to this small study oval panel I did while working on the 'Rock Beach' painting. Smallest painting I've done in over a decade...but I had the panel (and 5 more like it) primed and sitting around when I was trying to figure out the waves and lighting on the bigger 30x40 piece. #kingsville #painting #art #artwork #physicalpainting #noai #rockbeach #blackcanadianartist #lake #lakeerie #beach #landscape

Working out what figure to put into this oval pane

Working out what figure to put into this oval panel study of Rock Beach I did while working on the bigger piece. No need to have it go to waste. #painting #landscapepainting #lakeerie #kingsville #kingsvilleontario #water #lake #beach #drawing #sketchbook

I think I'm done...will sit with it another week b

I think I'm done...will sit with it another week before I varnish, frame and properly photograph it. "Rock Beach" is a two minute walk from my home in Kingsville Ontario. I'm happy with how it turned out. Tried a lot of new things in this one compared to my other paintings. @visitkingsvilleontario #painting #art #canadianartist🇨🇦 #surrealart #painter #landscapepainting #lakeerie #kingsville #ontario #canada #galleryart

Day 7: was hoping to get two sessions in over this

Day 7: was hoping to get two sessions in over this Canada Day weekend but lost track of the days so only got one day in. Finished up the beach and started to work on the figure. 2-3 more sessions on Rock Beach I'm guessing to clean up some details and finish the panels edges. #painting #art #canadianartist🇨🇦 #surrealart #painter #landscapepainting #lakeerie #kingsville #ontario #canada #galleryart #rockbeach

DAY 6: this past weekend session on my Rock Beach

DAY 6: this past weekend session on my Rock Beach painting was all about sand, dried seaweed, and driftwood. Feel like I need another day to play with it more and then start to work on the figure at the bench. Getting there though. #painting #art #canadianartist🇨🇦 #surrealart #painter #landscapepainting #lakeerie #kingsville #ontario #canada #galleryart #rockbeach

This painting intern is overly eager to learn. #

This painting intern is overly eager to learn. #studiocat #cat #catsofinstagram #indy #siberiancat #painting #artwork #wip #canadianartist🇨🇦 #landscapepainting #lakeerie #rockbeach #kingsvilleontario #kingsville

DAY 5: A father's day afternoon session. Worked on

DAY 5: A father's day afternoon session. Worked on more rocks and some sand. Next up will be a piece of drift wood and some details before I work on the figure. #painting #art #canadianartist🇨🇦 #surrealart #painter #landscapepainting #lakeerie #kingsville #ontario #canada #galleryart

Day 4. The battle continues. A ton of base paintin

Day 4. The battle continues. A ton of base painting on rocks and the short pier and bench on Rock Beach in Kingsville, Ontario. Still likely need another 2 sessions to add moss, seaweed, twigs, and foliage around the rocks and make them look wet.. But the general gesture of shading is in... #painting #art #canadianartist🇨🇦 #surrealart #painter #landscapepainting #lakeerie #kingsville #ontario #canada #galleryart

Day 3. One of the most challenging and rewarding p

Day 3. One of the most challenging and rewarding painting sessions I've ever had. I was so intimidated by painting the waves of Lake Erie realistically that I painted a study at the same time on a smaller piece I had.
I'm happy with it. Next up the wet mossy rocks... #painting #art #canadianartist🇨🇦 #surrealart #painter #landscapepainting #lakeerie #kingsville #ontario #canada #galleryart

Day 2 of Rock Beach... now we're talking - 'er, pa

Day 2 of Rock Beach... now we're talking - 'er, painting.... starting to feel good about the clouds now that they feel Wilder and moving on to the waves of Lake Erie! This has been a fun and challenging one forcing myself to stay loose and let it just go where it goes. And taking my time. #painting #painter #art #contemporaryart #rockbeach #kingsville #canadianartist🇨🇦 #canadaart #landscapepainting #kingsvilleontario

Day 1 of Rock Beach... Getting some stormy cloud b

Day 1 of Rock Beach... Getting some stormy cloud base down. A couple more days to make them angrier and more interesting. But not a bad first day back at it. #painting #painter #art #contemporaryart #rockbeach #kingsville #canadianartist🇨🇦 #canadaart #landscapepainting

Getting back to basics after a long break. Plottin

Getting back to basics after a long break. Plotting my next (first 2024) painting slowly and carefully. Subject: Rock Beach in Kingsville Ontario Will likely change the back leg to be stretched out and pointing like In the landscape drawing in the final. But that's the point right? Play around in the sketch. #sketch #sketchbook #sketching #drawing #pencildrawing #kingsville #windsoressex #lakeerie #rockbeach

FINALLY...the panel...has come back...to the easel

FINALLY...the panel...has come back...to the easel. #wweRockReference Two new 30x40 panels primed and ready.

Needed a change. I swapped out my EPCOT painting i

Needed a change. I swapped out my EPCOT painting in my home office for another oldie, my Hollywood Studios piece "Visitors Walk The Strip" (2020). #themeparks #hollywood #hollywoodstudios #disneyart #disney #disneyworld #contemporaryart #surrealism #popart

So I have a stack of these Small solid wood ovals

So I have a stack of these Small solid wood ovals that have been gesso'd/prepped for years. As I start two new larger pieces based on Southern Ontario locations I think I'll paint these as smaller more affordable pieces for new collectors... But what should I paint? Smaller landscape studies of landmarks? Some new Theme Park pieces? Some new Idols (the characters like Homer, Woody, Care Bear pieces I did a few years ago)? #painting #contemporaryart #landscapepainting #popart #disneyart #canadianartist🇨🇦 #themeparks

Have a happy weekend to those of you who celebrate

Have a happy weekend to those of you who celebrate Easter - or eat chocolate bunny eggs. Here is a painting of a church in the French Quarter, New Orleans from my Spirits collection.
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AVAILABLE:
Saint Louis Cathedral (2021)
(30″ x 40″ + Floater Frame)
$5000 CAD
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About the Painting: The famous St. Louis Cathedral, is found in the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans. The cathedral is depicted in a distant future overtaken by nature but still standing as a child-like figure sits at the fountain lost in thought. The figure represents our own memories of places we visit for the first time when we experience feelings of discovery and wonder. Feelings that we can never reclaim if we revisit.
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#painting #neworleans #church #easter #artwork #contemporyart #artist #homedecor #goodfriday #cathedrial #frenchquarter #landscapeart #buyart #artcollectors #gallery #galleryart

Finally found a new vendor for panels and frames c

Finally found a new vendor for panels and frames closer to my new location. Time to start painting again after a long hiatus. Starting slow with two 30x40s. I already know the first piece based on a calming location in my new home town Kingsville Ontario along the shores of Lake Erie. Just need to transfer it from the fog of my brain to panel. #painting #art #fineart #galleryartist #canadianartist🇨🇦 #painter #landscapes #contemporaryart #homedecor

Buy original artwork securely online and enjoy FRE

Buy original artwork securely online and enjoy FREE PERSONAL DELIVERY by the artist within the windsor-essex and chatham-kent region. Find these and more hand-painted works to add to your home or business collection at toddlawson.com/shop. Work is acrylic on gallery quality cradled wood panels. Each one is meant to last. Coated with protective archival UV varnish and set in a strong wall-ready, white floater frame. Not ready to start your fine art collection? High quality coffee table artbooks are also available to purchase online. #kingsville #belleriver #windsor #windsoressex #artwork #galleryart #contemporaryart #paintings #landscapes
#canada #neworleans #simpsons #novascotia #toronto

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FREE PERSONAL DELIVERY by the artist within the Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent regionMarch 4, 2024
Find these and more hand-painted works to add to your home or business collection.
PRESS RELEASE: 2022 ‘Spirits’ Solo Exhibition by Todd Lawson at Elaine Fleck GalleryJune 19, 2022
This July I will be exhibiting new and recent work at my third solo exhibit to open at Elaine Fleck Gallery located in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto. This year marks a continued evolution of my work as I move away from the “visitors” in past works to “spirits”.
PRESS RELEASE: 2021 ‘Visitors’ Solo Exhibition by Todd Lawson at Elaine Fleck GalleryFebruary 17, 2021
I have faced two culture shocks in my life. The first was moving to Florida at age 9 and being dumped into an alternate universe where tourism, retirees and locals intentionally segregated themselves into cultural bubbles and where I…

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