Sale this weekend!

Artist Market at the lovely Arrata Opera Centre this weekend, see postcard for details! Many sale items and new prints to be had! See you there.

Drop the Chalupa.

Painted Signs and Chihuahas

Seeing all the hand painted signs on my recent trip to Mexico made me realize how truly boring a slick, plastic, commercially printed sign usually is.

Happy Cupcake, Moody Cupcake.

A sketchbook experiment in color and tone.

Nudy Tuesday

I'm back from Mexico and very ready to be back in the studio. Here are a few from last night's figure drawing session.

Et Voila

My new cards, pre-cut.

A little printing, a little dirty dancing.

The past couple days have been full of screenprinting. I'm attempting to make myself some business cards but I've had nothing but technical problems. I think I'm starting to figure out my technical issues, but there are so many things that can go wrong while printing!!!!!#*%@

Also, I bought the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. Shut up.
The ghost of Patrick Swayze made me do it.
Maybe my cards didn't work because I was too busy shaking my money maker.
Sigh.

Nudy Tuesday

It's an egg. With some gold on it.

summer sketchbook entry

A really quick portrait.

Andrew

Good model last night. Despite it being 3000 degrees in the hall, it was a fun session.

What's a Sumo Man Woman?

At some point during this small study for a painting, what was intended to be a portrait of a woman magically transformed into a portrait of a Sumo wrestler wearing a doilie. A good example of me losing control of proportion and detail. I managed to somewhat wrestle it back into some semblance of a 'handsome' reptilian woman. Wearing a doilie. Not my best work.

Nerd Alert.

Plaid Jackets and Club Beer

In an attempt to brainstorm for a show called "Bonfire", all I could come up with was the memory of going to bush parties (yes, you read 'bush party') - for those of you who didn't grow up in smallish towns where there was nothing to do, a bush party is when a bunch of stupid teenagers drive out to someone's acreage or farm (belonging to another stupid teenager who's parents are away) and light a bunch of crap on fire. All that crap is piled into a great big heap of bonfire, and the drinking begins. Since I was a teenager in the 90's, the outfit du jour was a plaid lumberjacket style flannel coat a la Eddie Vedder, and since we were a bunch of stupid penniless teenagers we drank Club beer, which was the cheapest piss on the market.
So there.
An embarassing bit of my history.

sketchbook patterns

Experiments in making my own patterned paper.

Hand Type Exploration

Etsy Sale!

It's time for a sale at my Etsy store - visit and help me make room for fresh new stock!
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Why So Angry, Young Lady?

I'm not perpetually pissed off (anymore), but this woman is.

Sketchbook exploration...

She's Not Thrilled.

T for trying.

Another experiment with portraits...this one stinks a little of 'effort', but whatever, I'm trying to figure some stuff out and there are bound to be many rejects. At least that's what I keep telling myself.

gouache and ink on cardboard

So Last Weekend...

Here's a piece I did for the National Post last weekend...Saturday edition. I always find it interesting to see the illustration in context.

Nudy Tuesday

I had a good figure drawing session this week. Good model, nice physique, someone that I enjoyed drawing - which is not always the case. It's as though some models inspire me to continue drawing. To say it in a flaky way - they give off a kind of energy. Other models seem to suck energy from the room - let's call it a creative vortex of pain and suffering.

Anyhoo, drawing felt easy and natural that night, but when I got home I started to feel really sick. That was the beginning of a horrible 3 day stomach flu. I hope the two situations aren't related, I know it's probably 'cool' to suffer for one's art - but screw that.

Have a good weekend!

Wallpaper + acrylic = clumsy portrait

ghost portrait

I wish computer monitors showed fluorescent colors, 'cause I sure do like using them.

I Can Read Your Thoughts.

Fashion a tinfoil helmet.

Gouache and Pencil Portrait