Willy's for Brine, Plankton, and Chum!

This Painting Sold

This Painting, from almost a year ago now, finally sold. But what's interesting is that I sold it to A red headed triplet who grew up in a fishing family in New Brinswick. How's that for coincidence?

Propagate

This is a quick off, for Illustration Friday, The subject is Propagate.

Cop out

Cop Out! I like Kevin Smith's spatulas so much, I bought the company!

Whale

This is an old drawing, from 2005. I ruined it by spilling my ink bottle, hence the big blotch. I was using to figure out how to scan in larger drawings in peices and then assemble in shop

I'm workin' on it

Barely

A Man's Eye View of 21st Century Dating

Here's a New one I did for See. It's got humping greyhounds, Napoleonic Pomposity, a wizard staff, and a colour scheme that leaves something to be desired. It runs with Trent Wilke's article out in this week's See magazine. The drawing is a somewhat literal interpretation of some of Trents colourful descriptive imagery that he sprinkles liberally throughout the piece, which altogether makes for a pretty good read.

a page of doodles

Various things that came out of my brain, and serve no functional purpose other than to mess with you.

Should I stay or should I go

This is my fist piece done for See, as part of their focus on the arts. My drawing accompanies Thomas Patrick Pringles article, about local visual arts talent deciding to stay or go.

Dinghy, Nope

Some stuff to keep the kiddies entertained. Super simple colour. Try not to notice that I used the same texture on both drawings.

Dirty Drawings

Dirty Drawings. I dug out these two sheets of paper from the bottom of my parka that had been folded up and forgotten about during my whole time in rainy Tofino and slushy mount Washington. Bar doodles from nights out in those days before Christmas when old friends come in from out of town and one is obligated to get drunk with each of them and pack a years worth of fun into a single evening.

Merry Holidays, and tonight is all good

This will be FFWD tommorrow as part of the 'contents series'- a twelve week run of illustrations from various artists that I was asked to participate in in November. It was great, because I had total freedom to do whatever I wanted. This is what I ended up doing.

I will be going on my first holiday in over a year: to Tofino, to surf in the icy waters of the North Pacific with all my friends and drink beers. So don't expect to see or hear anything coherent out of me until the 4th or 5th day of 2010. Happy Christmasdays evvabody!

The Grapes of Seduction

These were some last minute Spots, appearing in FFWD, to accompany an article about which wines are most suitable for the purposes of seduction. Champagne and Chardonnay, apparently.

Shopping for a Fantasy

Here's the Mock up, and final, for a full page comic to be appearing in christmas issue of FFWD, on stands tommorrow. I was given a reader submitted story and told to turn it into a comic. The finished results are a bit risque, to say the least. Enjoy.

Stimulus Package

Here's the album art for Raymond May's new album, Stimulus Package.

Mixed Bag

Here's a bunch of different warm up drawings, and a doodle. I generally set out with the intent on doing something loose and easy often in an unfamiliar style, or with unfamiliar tools, just to get in the rhythm, before going on to whatever it is I'm supposed to be working on. I didn't spend more than an hour on any of these, the intent is to screw it up somehow, and usually I do, but these ones are all interesting in some way or another, I think. All of them accumulated over the past couple weeks.

Comic book test page

I need a quick and dirty way to get through a comic book. Messing around last night, I drew a few practice pages, trying out different things. There'll be some more messing around before I'm good to go.

Figurative drawing

I've been hiting up figurative drawing drop in sessions at the Harcourt House sporadically over the past six or seven months. Here's some from this afternoon's session. The model was excellent, my drawing was working. Here they are.

It's Postcard Time.

Here's the front and back of my postcard, I just got back from the printers, where I had a hundred of these babies printed up. Next week you'll be able to find me lurking in the magazine racks of Hub, Milner, and Crapters, with a notebook, taking names. Then I will disseminate.

Also, My friend Frederick Kroetsch did a nice little piece on Steven Teeuwson, the creator and publisher of the fantastic little art Rag 'Notebook Magazine', in which I make an appearance. Check that out here. I think it's the canned music that really makes the piece shine: particularly the 'I survived breast cancer' music that beds in during the cover montage.

And Tonight Notebook Magazine will be holding a fundraising Gala tonight at the Arts Barns, so if you're not at Wyrdfest, go down there and bid on my painting. Or any of the work from over 75 local artists who have donated work on behalf of Notebook's noble cause. I'll be pooping back and forth between the two events.