Pete Hubbard's Art

I use what I call source materials for making paintings. That is, I use an image to create another image. I have used other paintings, drawings, photographs, all kinds of things. All of the paintings on my web site are made using this technique. For a long stretch I used my own drawings from life drawing. 20 or so years ago I learned a technique for contacting my “Spirit Guides”. My spirit guides are strictly non-verbal. They use pantomime and drawings to convey their messages. Many early paintings not on my website used this method. Now I’ve resurrected this approach. The surprising thing is they are now teaching me landscape painting. In the early days they just presented isolated images out of context. But now they are presenting complete compositions complete with rendering and perspective. Many of you, who know me, know I’m virtually famous for saying “I couldn’t render my way out of a paper bag”. These new paintings (can be seen on my web site) are admittedly primitive and I’m sure many would say I haven’t made it out of the paper bag yet. But I’m having a blast and I would hope you would go check these out. And there are more to come.