Michael LeBlanc

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Artist and design educator in Halifax, Nova Scotia: https://generaleccentric.net

An exterior view, looking up, in Shanghai's Jing'an temple district. On the left is the temple and on the right is a shopping mall building with a large poster on the side. A large etherial god-like hand emerges from a cloud in the sky.
An office nameplate ready to fall off the wall.
A semi-abstract painting inspired by a back alley in a residential area of central Beijing.
A pastel painting/drawing, mostly in reds, of mainly flat abstract areas but also an area of faint realism and depth, alluding to a robot figure with a square head.
A black and white drawing of a man seemingly trapped behind a set of stairways.
An oil painting depicting a deserted street with a pedestrian crosswalk in the foreground, with the silhouette of an enormous pyramid in the distant background.
An impressionistic picture of a blank wall of a house with white siding in a small town in Nova Scotia.
A pencil drawing of two opposing world leaders shaking hands. Text from their joined hands is revealed to be a rhetoric of bad faith, greed, lies and violence.
An unfinished-looking hand-painted illustration that could have been for Better Homes and Gardens in 1965 if it were not for the rendition of a dark-suited man holding a sawed-off shotgun in a stylish, modern living room.
A digital drawing of urban sheds.
A b&w digital painting of two figures.
A digital painting/drawing of a recently-constructed concrete building of attractive design, flanked by palm trees. View is from slightly below, looking up, so that that the horizon is below the bottom of the frame. A cloudless blue sky in the background.
A photo of an apartment vestibule in Osu district, Accra, Ghana. This is the reference photo for the digital painting "Osu Vestibule".
A realistic digital painting of a contemporary interior scene from equatorial west Africa: a vestibule with no windows but an open doorway allows morning sun to stream in. A wooden desk is against one wall, and a small sofa on the other wall. The room is spare, allowing the sunlight to play in different hues, reflecting onto the brown ceramic floor and the whitewashed walls.
A watercolour painting on paper of a haute couture mannequin without a wig stands in front of a doorway. On the other side of the door is nothing, a completely blank space.
A digital painting/drawing, very flat and abstract with large areas of rusty brown colour, of the New York skyline from 2001, bisected by a thin tall light standard.
The completed digital painting of a late afternoon city scene. The image is very 'crunchy', with lots of texture and overlays.
A late-state work-in-progress digital painting of a late afternoon city scene. The image is very 'crunchy', with lots of texture and overlays.
A painting of a moody summer early morning of a placid river scene close to Corning, NY. In the distance is a bridge, flanked on each side by hills.
A street in a small Ontario town on a sunny day.
A black and white drawing, split vertically into two halves: on the left half, a young female figure skater slides along the water, foaming it. On the right, a cartoony male figure in a t-shirt looks at her across the divide.
A monochromatic image of a woman pushing a grocery cart.
A watercolour painting of some fin-de-siecle historical mannequins: a rich lady and a servant who is so blurry as to be almost not there, painted in mostly dark purples and reds.
A black and white drawing of a man seemingly in distress, wearing a white robe.
A quiet painting of a room with artificial lighting, after a life-and-death struggle. Two plainclothes detectives search the scene as a body lies on the floor. Another man, looking rather like James Bond, intrudes from a Better Homes & Gardens magazine feature. I didn't come up with this scene on purpose--it just kinda happened.
A digital painting mainly of yellows and greenish browns, of a sitting woman with a white head covering. What looks like a barrel is suspended behind her, next to a man with facial hair in a white suit. Sorry, but that's the best I can do.
A city scene from the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco. Dawn, clear sky, a utility pole as a crossroads.
A semi-abstract painting, mostly in browns, of an exterior scene, looking down.
From Ground News: right wing media source points out that in his first month, he “took more questions” than Biden or Obama. No mention of the veracity of any of the answers…
A mixed media drawing of a 1950's film noir scene: a detective holding a revolver entering a suburban home.
A painting of mainly warm yellows of a figure holding a smartphone in one hand and a TV remote in the other while wearing a vest of explosives. Fun for all ages.
A late summer, early morning painting of a schoolyard, in Clayton Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
A black and white drawing from the series "Someone for Everything".
A drawing/painting of a man that appears to be struggling with a large newspaper, at night
A digital painting of an interior scene: woman leaning out of an open window. Behind her a man holds a ridiculously-large handgun, presumably used on the corpse laying on the floor in front of him.
A black and white graphite pencil drawing on paper of a scene in West Berlin, 1981.
A painting/drawing of a device suspending an industrial machine with a human head at the top situated in a clean warehouse . Light and dark grays and yellow.
A mixed media drawing of a hobo on a recliner, speaking into a telephone while a hand from behind a curtain offers money in large denominations.
The side of an apartment building in China, in morning light, with bed linens hanging over the small balcony railings.
Georges Island and Dartmouth, looking east from the NSCAD Port Campus.
A monochrome image of a leaping woman.
A drawing/painting of a tree in a Japanese garden.
A mixed media drawing of a man in a red suit waving from a convertible, with bunting and joined in the automobile by a monkey and a penguin.
From the series of paintings "The Home Truths (revisited)". The back of a man in front of a living room suite. A large lampshade hangs in the foreground.
A painting of an industrial/commercial shed in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
A mixed media drawing of two men at a table in front of a large map on the wall, with a woman looking on.
A greyscale drawing of a layered image depicting a man in a long trench coat leaning on a railing.