Mr. Chesterfield Poster for Sidney York

Here's another poster I've done for the band my sister plays in, SIDNEY YORK!!! Have a look at the tour dates and locations and go check them out if you're able!

Poutine Poster

Wow! It's been a while since I've posted something! Eesh! Lots of new stuff to show though, so here we go!

Here's a poster I did for Sid and her band's 5 day tour in Ontario. POUTINE!!! I loved the absolute creative freedom I was given! And I think this just may be the first time I have EVER done something using the classic black white and red colour combo. I think I may be using these colours again! Who would have thought! :)

Sidney York: Spirit of Competition Poster

This is the poster I did up for Sidney York's upcoming tour. She's the singer songwriter I did the shirts for, and for whom my sister sings and plays her oboe. Neat! 

Oh yes, the CD release party is tomorrow night! Come out!

BLOOD!!!

Ok, wow has it been a while since I've posted something. It's certainly not that I haven't been doing things!!! This is an illustration I did for a local author for whom I did cover art for a few years ago. It's the title for a series of short stories she's posting online. The letters are supposed to look like they're alive and the heart in the D is pumping blood through the veins. It was neat to do a more rendered kind of painting. It's been a while...

Waterlution Shirt Design

This is a t-shirt design I did for an organization called Waterlution that's putting on a 3-day "Water Innovation Lab" that gives "tomorrow’s leaders, the insights, tools, and connections to make a difference in protecting your community’s water resources." (www.waterlution.org)

I was originally contacted about the possibility of printing the shirts as well, but wasn't able to, due to the size of the order and the need for two colours. I print more than one colour on some of my shirts, but it only really works in small quantities and when the different colours don't need to be exact in their placement.

I was relieved when they just asked me for designs as I think 300 shirts would have been a few too many for me to handle happily...

My Head Is Filled With Song: Part III

Here's the third piece for a series I'm working on called "My Head Is Filled With Song."

This one is for Wilco's "The Late Greats." Man, what a good song. My only complaint is that it's not long enough! And what awesome lyrics: "The best song never gets sung, the best laugh never leaves your lungs, it's so good you won't ever know, and never hear it on the radio."

I've noticed that I almost always create images that have a light background and dark foregrounds, so for this one I wanted to try switching it up and have a dark background with light foreground objects. Fun stuff.

Advertising Illustration for Gaz Metro

This is an advertising illustration I did for a natural gas company from Quebec. The client wanted to use the illustration for a number of different applications, so to accommodate both vertical and horizontal formats, I created a square that can be cropped accordingly.

To create a textured look I did the drawing using China Marker on heavy watercolour paper. In order to get clear detail in the finer areas of pattern I had to make the drawing very large. 40x40 inches in fact! WOW! Definitely the largest drawing I've done.

This project was a great learning experience for me and I'm really grateful to the ladies at Sid Lee for giving me the chance to work with them on it!

Promotional Piece

This is a promotional piece I'm printing in postcard from and sending out to people who will see it, like it, and then hire me! That's the general idea anyways...

My goal is to send one out every fours months-ish. Each one will feature a quote that I find interesting or inspirational and my visual interpretation of the quote. Fun stuff!


Oh yes, and I thought it would be neat to show some process on this one.

I start out with a very rough sketch just to get ideas out. Yup. Pretty amazing drawing skills displayed on the first sketch. Then I do a nice line drawing in pen. Which I then scan and add colours to and play around with in photoshop to get some idea of what I want to do.

In the colour comp for this one, there's a bit too much going on and not enough contrast, so I fixed these things for the actual final painted version which is acrylics for the background, fabric, and gouache for the "drawn" part. And that, is how it's done!

Cards!

Here's a couple of cards I did a while ago that I forgot to post. The bottom one is a birthday card I gave to my boyfriend, and the top one is a commissioned card I did. I think there was an inside joke that I was not in on. I'm sure the person receiving it would have gotten it though...

I like doing cards on print-making paper and just doing a line drawing with pens, colouring it in with pencil crayons and sometimes using thread to make borders and stuff.

My head is filled with song: Part 2

SMASHING PUMPKINS: 1979

Eesh. Posting every week is tricky. Okay, so here's the second one of the series I'm working on. Man! I love this song! Who doesn't! So good to drive to! Sooooo, yeah. I experimented a bit with using fabrics as a main element and gluing stuff on and whatnot. It's colourful that's for sure.... Keep on the lookout for another in the next couple of weeks!

My head is filled with song: Part 1

FLEET FOXES: Tiger Mountain Peasant Song

I've recently been working for a painting company (yes, houses, walls, solid colours...) to generate some income, and have been finding it tricky to make time anything creative. To get things flowing again, I've started a project for myself. Every two weeks, I'm going to try and make an album sized illustration based upon a song that I really like or has affected me in some way. The first one is inspired by the Fleet Foxes' "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song." It's a neat image, but I think it could reflect the song a bit more. I don't think the illustration quite has the same feeling as the song does... I will do better on the next one!!! AHA!!!

The light of the moon!

As in Edward Lear's poem, here are the owl and the pussycat going to sea in their beautiful pea-green boat.

What happens to leftover paint.

Some experiments in me sketchbook!

Illustration Friday - Frozen

A silly painting inspired by perhaps my favourite thing to eat. ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!

Chicken and Fish

This is just an experiment based on a silly drawing from my sketchbook. It's painted with gouache. I kind of forgot about it. I suspect it's something I will be using more often in the future!

I've never painted on a road before...

This was a volunteer project I did for the community I live in. They are celebrating 50 years as a community. I painted the white outline on the road, and then kids in the neighborhood painted it in. They were lots of them and they were very speedy and I had trouble keeping up!

New Stuff

This is a late birthday card that I gave my sister at the end of our travels. I thought of all the most memorable moments and the neatest things we did and saw and drew them on the card.

This is a card my sister and I sent the parents from New Zealand for their 34th wedding anniversary. All I had was pens to draw with. I chose an animal from each of the countries we'd visited and had them relaying the message. Then on the back are my sister and I wearing cute dresses we'd picked up along the way, saying hello.


This is a commissioned painting (2 by 6 feet) I did for a friend. I saw where the painting was supposed to live, and then was given complete freedom to do whatever I wanted. This is what happened. All the white trees were silk screened onto the wood, and the bottom stripy part is scrap fabric from an old sweater of my mother's that I shortened so I could wear it. So much fun!

TIKI!!!!!!

This is a panel I did as part of a friend's installation in which he turned a gallery into a tiki room with a bar and a stage and bamboo and anything else you could possibly want. I foolishly left it til the day before I needed to have it done and stayed up ridiculously late to finish it... Oh deadlines... I rather like how it turned out. Very silly.

Children of the World

I was asked to do a mural in a sunday school room at my church. I was given the theme "Children of the World." Cute! The words are from an old church hymn.

Book related stuff

The following two are for a fellow I know who is writing a memoir of his childhood and wanted an illustration of the farm he grew up on. It was quite the undertaking... I like how it turned out though.

I also did a book cover for a woman who is self-publishing her book. She had a rather clear idea of what she wanted......pencil rendering.... oh boy....