Christopher Brereton

PictureHealing CoFounder – musician – artist – nerd

Octopus : Commissioned Piece

Posted by on Dec 13, 2011

Octopus : Commissioned Piece

This is a piece I just finished for a good friend of mine who sent me out on this Octopus mission. This started as about 100 different sketches until I threw them all away and just started painting. Sometimes planning kills the piece.    ...

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The color of the sound.

Posted by on Sep 13, 2011

The color of the sound.

This one is olddddd… i think maybe 09′ when I first started fussing around with paints. I remember painting this in my apartment in Westlake Village. I had this MASSIVE walk in closet that I turned in to a little creative space where I was recording music, drawing, writing, painting… just getting weird with my bad self and any medium I could get my hands...

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Franky

Posted by on Sep 13, 2011

Franky

This piece was a lot of fun. I decided to start playing wit the idea of watering down acrylics, and using them more like water colors to achieve different tones. In the background I was listening to Frank Sinatra, so I let my minds eye do the talking and did a very experimental version of Franky… Mr. Blue Eyes. Once I got to the point at which you’re seeing here… it was telling...

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Speak Love

Posted by on Sep 13, 2011

Speak Love

If you’ve meandered around the site at all, you may have read that I teach art to kids infected or affected with HIV/AIDS at an amazing summer camp called Camp Kindle. This piece was what I worked on that week while working with the chillens on their amazing works of art. The wording “Speak Love” came out because of something we did every day called “Speak Out”...

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