Fermentation project

In the process of making a series of fermentaion pamphlets... here's the rough version of my 'how to make yogurt' card (soon to be completed in watercolour). Yum.

Veggies

I'm currently working on a series of illustrations based on fruits and vegetables... stay tuned!

New Linocut

I'm still working on my project of Parc La Fontaine...
Here's the beginnings of a new linocut... I'm going to add some squirrels in there somewhere!

My ongoing longing for a beard...

If I had a beard I would never need a scarf

If Phil's beard was just a weeny bit longerer

New sketchbook!

Fun-a-day

 All this January, I'll be taking part in  Fun-a-day Montreal (can see the facebook group here). The premise is simple: pick a project, do it every day in January, then show your work the following month in a big group show. 

I'll be doing a portrait-a-day.

So far so good... though I have to break out of the habit of being too shy to ask people I don't know so well if I can draw them (so have so many self portraits and pictures of Phil!). I've also got into the bad habit (already!) of leaving it late in the day so end up drawing, yet again, myself or Phil.
Anyway here are a few I like:

Phil reading in bed 9 January. Pen + photoshop

Self Portrait. 6 January. Pen.

Phil sleeping. 8 January. Pen.

another tablet doodle

I like the bamboo tablet. It grants me a new sense of freedom... it's quick and if I don't like something: Cmd+Alt+Z. Erased.
Bright bold colours.

Anyway, I'm in a good mood but somehow this popped out. (?) I started drawing the eye and then...

This is a bit more cheerful...

Bamboo tablet

coffee

feeling tired

confused

Got a bamboo drawing tablet for crimbo... thought I'd give it a whizz... what ya think?

Christmas cake

Merry cocoa-powder, marzipan, chocolate drop robins!

Cafe Rico

Intaglio print of the lovely, waxy plant at Cafe Rico.

cafe rico

CHRISTMAS TIME!

 It's CHRISTMAS TIME.... lino cuts:

I do like the christmas squirrel to hang on your tree!

PRINTMAKING

Hello.

I've been taking a printmaking course one evening a week for the past 10 weeks. I've loved every minute of it and have learned a lot - I had no idea how many different types of printmaking there are!
Since we only had 3 hours a week, we only managed to cover 2 different types of printmaking: lino cuts and intaglio.

Here are some of the images I've made:

Whippet - lino cut

Oyster mushrooms - lino cut

smoking in the park - intaglio

smoking in the park - lino cut and watercolour

on the bench - lino cut

BEARD - lino cut

singing in parc lafontaine - lino cut and watercolour

autumn leaves - lino cut

more printspiration...

lovely colours, lovely imagination, lovely messiness. YES. 
I'm doing a printmaking course and looking for inspitartion.
I stumbled across this beaut from Cornelia O'Donovan: 

Sigrid Rødli

I'm doing a relief printing course at the moment and looking for inspiration. 
Check out these amazing images from Sigrid Rødli's Legendary Monsters project.
These would look fantastic as a block print.... yum:

'Yeti' by Sigrid Rødli

Autumn

Squash time!

watercolour, indian ink, pen

In the woods and by the sea

This summer I spent an incredible 3 months working on organic farms, hitchhiking, camping and bumbling around north Quebec and the Canadian Maritimes.
Lots of time in the woods, sleeping to the sound of coyotes howling, and by the windy sea.

One Fine Stay commission

Well, well, well.

It has been a while!
There's plenty more updates to come, but for the meantime here's a recent commission I completed for London / New York company One Fine Stay for their referral program. 
I was asked to illustrate the gifts given to members for referring their friends. I was on a tight deadline and the desired style was classy classy.... which I struggled to keep up with. I like some ore than others... you know how it goes.

Nonetheless, here they are:

PRIZE: chef cooks a dinner party at your house

PRIZE: bouquet of flowers for your house once /week

PRIZE: handymen to fix your house up

PRIZE: trip to NYC

PRIZE: shopping n champers experience

PRIZE: afternoon tea hamper

PRIZE: cleaning service for your home once/week

PRIZE: champagne hamper

What I bought... cont

Here are some more pieces from my sketchbook of 'what I bought.'... though I think 'what I ate' is more suitable, as food seems to be the only thing I buy.

Asparagus. watercolour. ink.

Red onion studies. Watercolour. crayon. ink.

Red onion 2.

Onions - thought they'd make a rather nice fabric / wallpaper design.

Tee design

New T-shirt design - hopefully wont mess up the printing this time...

FRESH OFF THE BLOCK

Well, lookey lookey... just finished some lino block printing.

Just finished my Christmas cards... later than I wanted (had to order art supplies you see)... but look! I'm rather chuffed with this lot. They're metallic, complete with glitter n all!

Friends etc. email me your addresses so I can send you a nice belated letter.

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 

Getting started...

taa -daaah!

 

Metallic red with glitter

Metallic blue with glitter