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Sam Phippen

Sam Phippen

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Sam Phippen is a Canadian artist who loves to creates engaging imagery with dynamic compositions, atmosphere and elements of motion design. Sam is fascinated by multimedia experimentation and loves to use all forms of traditional and digital media. Sam balances his efforts between fine art projects, primarily oil paintings, and illustration and design work.

This illustration is based on the Royal Ontario Museum,

  specifically the “ROM After Dark” event. This illustration was part of my final thesis project in which I created 6 illustrations based on culturally significant events, locations or experiences that felt representative of the city of Toronto. A motion version of this illustration can be seen on my website!

In this illustration I wanted to represent the CN Tower from the perspective of someone living in Toronto.

  I based it on my own experience of walking through the city in the winter and seeing the tower reflected in the glass panes of a huge downtown skyscraper. This illustration was part of my final thesis project in which I created 6 illustrations based on culturally significant events, locations or experiences that felt representative of the city of Toronto. A motion version of this illustration can be seen on my website!

This is a 22″x33″ oil painting titled “Self Depiction”.

  This painting is about our changing relationship to self in a digital age of self documentation. Today, Instead of just being documented by other people, we have the opportunity to document ourselves and entirely shape the way we are perceived online. How healthy is our relationship to our second, curated digital self? An accompanying video and further explanation of this painting are available on my website!

This 22″x44″ oil painting was part of my first thesis project

  focused on formalist portraiture. Each of the paintings in this series is meant to express a specific emotion through the way the subject is portrayed.

These illustrations were a part of my children’s book project titled “Someone New”.

  The story follows the imagination of a young girl as her parents explain to her that she will be getting a younger brother. Her fears, hopes, and excitement are visualized through her imaginary adventure into the woods to find her new younger brother and bring him home. This illustration in particular is the moment in which she discovers the star in which her new baby brother has arrived on earth.