Mixed Media Paintings By: David Fullarton

David Fullarton is a Scottish born, San Francisco based artist. He keeps notebooks filled with scraps of paper, scribbled phrases, and other ephemera that he incorporates into his artwork. These elements represent the often overlooked stuff of daily life, which is the root of Fullarton’s inspiration. He sees beauty in the ways people manage to find joy and meaning in the minutiae. The artist paints vibrantly complex canvases whose elements jumble and mix together in a facsimile of modern life. Fullarton compliments these with smaller mixed media drawings on paper. These paper works are sometimes the genesis of the finished paintings, but are more often stand-alone vignettes featuring forlorn characters who find themselves in compromising situations. More examples of his work can be found at http://www.davidfullarton.com

Guard With Tenderness Small Things That Have No Words.

Mixed media on masonite with attached squirrel head, 2006.

Men In Exile Feed On Dreams Of Hope.

Mixed media on canvas, 2006.

Two Pointless Exercises For The Price Of One.

Mixed media on canvas, 2006.

We Too Are One.

Mixed media on canvas, 2009.

Leaping Before We Look.

Mixed media on canvas, 2008.

Failing Once Again To Keep The Beasts At Bay.

Mixed media on canvas, 2007.

Fighting The Ratings War.

Mixed media on canvas, 2009.

You Tell Us The Answer, You Who Know So Much.

Mixed media on canvas, 2007.

There's Plenty More Where That Came From.

Mixed media on canvas, 2007.

Viewer Discretion Advised.

Mixed media on canvas, 2008.

We'd Like You Better If You Were Someone Else.

Mixed media on canvas, 2007.

All Is Not Lost, But Much Has Been Mislaid.

Mixed media on canvas, 2007.

Do As I Say, Not As I Do.

Mixed media on canvas, 2008.

And I Say To Myself What A Wonderful World.

Mixed media on canvas, 2009.

I Reserve The Right To Refuse Admission To Anyone.

Mixed media on canvas, 2008.

Enough Is Enough.

Mixed media on canvas, 2008.

One Entry Per Person, No Refunds.

Mixed media on canvas, 2006.

We're Not Falling For That Old One.

Mixed media on canvas, 2009.

Your Trouble Is You Know The Cost Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing.

Mixed media on canvas, 2008.

This Time Yesterday, Today Was Tomorrow.

Mixed media on canvas, 2006.

You Take the High Road.

Mixed media on canvas, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

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I was never a big fan of Moleskine notebooks. They always seemed so damn precious and overpriced with their pretentious history printed inside and that fancy-dan knicker elastic to keep your place. But someone gave me one for nothing a couple of years ago, and since it was free I used it. A lot. And I have to admit I ended up liking it. Almost enough to actually pay for the next one.

★ Small Scale Paintings By: David Fullarton

You Have Been Warned.

Mixed media on canvas, 2007.

Vengeance.

Mixed media on canvas, 2007.

Living In A Material World.

Mixed media on canvas, 2007.

Gratuitous Simian Profanity.

Mixed media on canvas, 2007.

Available as a gallery quality Giclée print here:

http://www.society6.com/studio/davidfullarton/Gratuitous_Simian_Profanity

Predetermining The Unavoidable.

Mixed media on canvas, 2008.

The Diligent Avoidance of Accomplishment.

Mixed media on cigar box, 2007.

A Minor Inconvenience.

Mixed media on canvas, 2007.

You Win Some, You Lose Some.

Mixed media on canvas, 2008.

Dead Celebrity Reverie.

Mixed media on canvas, 2008.

Time Is No Longer On My Side.

Mixed media on cigar box, 2006.

It's Never Now Or Never.

Mixed media on canvas, 2007.

Deny All Knowledge Of Everything.

Mixed media on cigar box, 2007.

To Hell In A Handcart.

Mixed media on canvas, 2006.

"Twas Always Thus.

Mixed media on cigar box, 2005.

Money. Who Needs It?

Mixed media on canvas, 2006.

Down The Slippery Slope.

Mixed media on canvas, 2007.

The Vertical Expression Of A Horizontal Desire.

Mixed media on canvas, 2008.

Buy Five Get One Free.

Mixed media on canvas, 2008.