Author: kirsti
Sketchbook – Garden
The Garden | .pencil on Rives BFK, digital, scanned textile
Another version of an old sketch I did a few years ago – some colour adjustments and a quick little fix on a badly drawn wrist.
Sketchbook – Cheetah
Sketchbook – bushtit birthday card
Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus)
ink on arches cold pressed | 7 1/4″ x 6″
Bushtits are frequent and favourite visitors to our studio window bird feeder so it was a fitting subject for a handmade birthday card for my boyfriend. We share a studio so I had to be sneaky and paint this really quickly while he was out of the room for a few minutes.
Sketchbook – The Hairdressers’ Dogs
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Two little salon dogs that belong to the hairdressers.
A Creative Mix
I’ve been so busy the last little while that I don’t know where my head is. Also, I forgot to mention earlier that I’ve been collaborating on a little creative diversion for an event that’s happening… tomorrow. Rachael Ashe invited Darren and I to create a little multimedia installation with her for the Creative Mix conference (Roundhouse Mews, November 4, 2010). I’m doing the illustration portion of it.
Come by and check it out – the exhibition portion is open to the public, 9am – 4pm and free. There’s also a conference – details and registration info here.
Pop-Up Show
The recent rain has made me nostalgic for Portland (sorry Portland! I know you probably have lovely weather too.). But it’s true – I wish I had time for another trip down there this fall, and not just because my supply of cheap Trader Joe’s Port and chocolate has long run out. I had such a good time on my visit last winter (even in the rain) – yummy food, proper diner breakfasts, fun shops, a comfy hotel room, beautiful and misty Japanese gardens, Trader Joe’s hotel room picnics, happy hour, the Japanese woodblock print exhibit at the Portland Art Museum… sigh.
Also, another great reason to visit this fall would be to see my friend Rachael‘s work in a show of movable artist books. What are movable artist books? Well, have a look at their online catalogue to find out. Or, better yet, if you’re in Portland between September 22 and October 30, 2010, check them out in person.
A brand new East Vancouver resident, Rachael has been working on some more altered books for the upcoming Eastside Culture Crawl. She also had a piece in a show in the UK and an installation in the Container Art Show at the PNE this summer.
I’m really impressed and inspired by how prolific and focused Rachael has been, especially since her art is so labour intensive.
UPDATE: Rachael also has work in the group show ReVision – the Art of Recycling at the Granville Island Hotel, 1253 Johnston Street, Vancouver, BC on Saturday & Sunday, October 2 & 3, 2010 at 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Final goodbye to Fox, Fluevog & Friends
Fox, Fluevog & Friends: the story behind the shoes closes at the Museum of Vancouver this week (September 26, 2010).
Curated by Joan Seidl, Director of Exhibition and Collection MOV
We would like to acknowledge the incredible assistance of the display team at the Museum of Vancouver (Sandy Blair, Senior Display Technician; Chris Friesen, Display Technician) who constructed this exhibition (and the Art of Craft). They have been invaluable problem solvers and innovators and have patiently interpreted our sketchup models and my last minute lighting adjustments. Without their knowledge and skill these designs would not have been realised.
Sandy Blair has recently retired. We feel very, very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with him and as sad as we are that we will no longer have the chance to work with him on further exhibitions, we wish him a wonderful, well-deserved retirement.
- More exhibition photos are archived on my Behance page.
- More blog posts on the this exhibit and the design process are here.
New work – Vancouver Art Gallery
Ok, so this is not so much new work as it is work I didn’t have a chance to announcing earlier. It’s been a busy spring/summer, so this is a roundup of work completed with Resolve Design on two Vancouver Art Gallery exhibitions. Our roles involved the graphic design, paint scheme (and a little illustration).
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The Modern Woman: Drawings by Degas, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Other Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Curated by Isabelle Julia, Musée d’Orsay. The Exhibition Commissioners are Guy Cogeval, président of the Musée d’Orsay; Isabelle Julia, conservateur général du patrimoine, arts graphiques, Musée d’Orsay; and Thomas Padon, assistant director / director of international partnerships, Vancouver Art Gallery.
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- More information on the exhibit on the Vancouver Art Gallery website: here
- More photographs of the exhibition in my design portfolio and on the Resolve Design website.
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In Dialogue with Carr: Douglas Coupland, Evan Lee, Liz Magor, Marianne Nicolson
Curated by Daina Augaitis, chief curator/associate director.
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- More information on the exhibit on the Vancouver Art Gallery website: here
- More photographs of the exhibition in my design portfolio and on the Resolve Design website.
Half World Vancouver
The other evening, I hit a wall working on an ongoing project so I left the studio for a bit of a walk around the neighbourhood. It’s now fall. Not sure when that happened, but it’s a sign I should probably get out more often.
My walk was meant to be, because I came across a little store selling new and secondhand comics and such* and among the books was YA novel Half World (author Hiromi Goto, illust. Jillian Tamaki). I’ve been looking for this book, with no luck, ever since I saw it on Jillian Tamaki’s blog. I didn’t realise it was set (partly) in Vancouver until I started reading it last night. Her other illustrated book, Skim (author Mariko Tamaki, illust. Jillian Tamaki), is a favourite of mine. She’s caught the postures of her characters so perfectly. Her expressive line and brush work is so lovely it makes me want to give up.
*I can’t remember the shop name, off hand. But it’s around 4th and Bayswater.
The Young and the Featherless
Every summer, our house is on a major evening flight path for the year’s new batch of crows as they head to their evening roost. There are all manner of missing feather configurations in the crowd, but this has got to be the least, and most weirdly feathered example I’ve seen on an aloft bird. Resembling more a bat than a crow, it flies over our back deck every night and keeps up pretty well with the rest of the bunch. I may even have been a bit generous, featherwise, in my rendition above.
Sketchbook – Bowen Island Garden
Bowen Island Garden | July 18, 2010 | watercolour on Arches cold pressed, 140 lb, 7″x10″
This year, I volunteered during the PPP tour (Bowen Island’s garden tour) with my mum. I was stationed in a lovely English style garden on Adams road, directing garden-visitor traffic toward one of the many little paths that looped through the two acre property. This was my view.
Kirsti Wakelin 