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 little over a year ago I was gifted a beautiful hat handmade by my friend, Lia. The colour of the wool is stunning: greens and blues in vibrant jewel tones. I actually took a photo of it for this post, but my camera couldn't come close to capturing the intense colours. Anyway, the best thing about winter is getting to wear this lovely hat. I w ...
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Last month I was commissioned to make a couple of cat portraits as a birthday gift for my client's girlfriend. He really liked my characters with their big eyes and rosy cheeks and wanted something similar done with his girlfriend's cats: Molly and Church. I don't often draw animals, but I was interested in finding out how cats in my style would lo ...
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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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I have been wanting to illustrate an ampersand for ages. I'd actually like to do a bunch of letters, but an ampersand seemed like a good place to start. I finally took some time for myself to just play in my sketchbook last Saturday night. I did some painting, some collage, some scribbling (I love to just scribble!) and ended up with this image. ...
Read MoreThis illustration is probably my favourite one from Charlie's Dirt Day because I included lots of personal touches. Several of the characters in this spread made appearances in my first picture book, Bye, Bye Butterflies, such as the lady in the yellow cardigan on the left, the little boy pulling the wagon and the little girl in the right corner wi ...
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