Sketches

Sketchy Collab with Chika!

Sometimes Chika and I meet up at a bar and do collaborative sketches where we each start something in our own sketchbooks, and then at random intervals trade and continue where the other person has left off. It's fun to see what someone else decides to do with your drawing! 

And yet some more quotes on fabric!

I was selling shirts at the Market Collective this weekend and made up some more quotes on fabric to sell as well.

Oh! And I'm going to be selling shirts and things the last weekend of April at the Chinese Cultural Centre for Make It! It's a three-day sale that comes to Calgary twice a year, featuring some cool hand-made stuff.

I'll be doing up some new designs and getting in some new sweaters and v-necks, which I'm very excited about! It's going to be a busy month!!

Here's some sketches old and new, that I'd like to share with you!

Yup, here's a bunch of sketches from my 8.5x11 inch sketchbook that I've never gotten around to scanning. Some of them are really old, like a couple of years...

T-shirts for Sidney York

I recently did a rather large order (465 shirts! WOW!) for a friend who's got a new album and will be touring across Canada in the spring (May I think...) to promote it. Her name is SIDNEY YORK and you should visit her website and try and check out one of her upcoming shows and buy a shirt! (My sister Sheryl is even playing her oboe and singing at the shows! So come out and heckle the oboe player!!! Heeheehee...)

It's the largest print run I've ever done, and although I'm only 2/3 of the way through, it went really well! I'll be printing a third design on another 200 blue shirts some time in the nearish future! Exciting!

Logo: Meaningful Work Project

This is a logo project I did for Miss Alla Guelber who is the founder and director of the Meaningful Work Project. It sounds like a pretty neat project she's starting up and if you're at all curious, please check out her website at www.meaningfulworkproject.ca.

The last image is a banner I put together for the website.

Sketchbook Project 2011

Sooooo, this is a pretty neat project I participated in. There were something like 28000 Moleskin sketchbooks sent out and each person fills it in, using one of the themes as inspiration, and mails it back to the Brooklyn Art Library. They archive them and put them online, send them on a tour that visits libraries in major US cities, and then keep them in the Brooklyn Art Library. Here's a link to their website:

http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject

It was interesting sketching based on a theme. The theme I chose was "Science Project Gone Wrong," and as you can see, I used it as a very loose general idea, with some things really having absolutely no relation to it at all... Oh well. It was fun though. I even rebound the book with heavier paper so that I could paint in it, and included a few fold outs! Neat!

More Quotes

I was selling shirts and art and cards at the Market Collective at the beginning of December, and made up three new quotes on fabric. I even sold two of them! And I have a stack of wood waiting to be wrapped in fabric and several pieces of fabric that are ready to go. Lots to do!

Oh man, sewing on the flower in the first one was pretty tricky. I'm really impressed with how it turned out. If you look closely, that white line around the edge is the thread. Done on a machine. Very slowly and carefully....

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...