Illustrating this book was very creatively satisfying for me. One reason for that is that I was able to use colour conceptually. I had done an experiment in my sketchbook a couple years ago that came to mind when I initially read the manuscript and that was the inspiration for the palette that I used. This is that sketch: I decided to onl ...
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I’m so excited that my latest picture book, I Didn’t Stand Up by Lucy Falcone and published by Clockwise Press, is finally coming out on January 7th! In anticipation of that, I wanted to talk a bit about the book and also share some of my process. This book came into my life at a time when I really needed a project of my own to work on. My edito ...
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This is another one of the fun projects that I did while back for the Silk Road Spice Merchant and just never got around to posting. They wanted a custom label inspired by old fruit labels, apothecary labels, and shipping labels. They liked the idea of something that looked old and maybe felt like what their logo might have looked like if they'd ...
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Here are the completed portraits I did of Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein. As I mentioned yesterday, I'll be turning these into prints to sell at the Calgary Expo. I'm also submitting them to The People's Portrait Prize show which is on from March 19th to the 25th, 9:00am to 5:00pm, at cSPACE King Edward (1721 29th Ave. SW in Calgary) ...
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A few months back an old colleague from my advertising days, photographer Wes Raymond, contacted me about doing a time lapse. I've actually wanted to do one for a while so I was pretty happy that he asked. We decided that I'd do a sketch on a summer theme and he'd take photographs while I painted it. The painting took about 2 hours and Wes compr ...
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