She loved climbing on rocks at the beach…
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…and wading in mud at the lake.
Author: kirsti
Sketchbook – Sooke Potholes
Sooke Potholes, June 26, 2010 | watercolour on Arches hot pressed, 140 lb, 7″x10″
It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to continue these little sketches – I’m very rusty. Still got about 980 bad paintings to go before I do a good one. This one was done last week on the way home from a bike ride up the Galloping Goose trail to the Sooke Potholes on Vancouver Island.
New work – Affinity Bridge Design & Illustration
Back in the winter I worked with Vancouver Drupal developer Affinity Bridge Consulting Ltd. to redesign their identity and home page.
Affinity Bridge’s original logo employed the symbol of a bridge and while the company’s philosophy is very much in keeping with the idea of bridges and bridging, they weren’t sure if they felt tied to the literal iconography and were interested in explorations of more abstract iconography for their new logo mark. For the first couple of rounds I focused on aspects of the company’s personality: environmentally and social conscious and playful, with a friendly and social company culture. I worked with ideas of connection and affinity and steered away from the original blue/green colour palette into more juicy and less typical “green” colour options. For the first rounds of design, bridging and connection was implied without the use of an actual bridge icon.
icon exploration | focus: connection, affinity, social interaction
DGTV: John Fluevog interview at MOV’s Fox, Fluevog & Friends
DGTV interviewed John Fluevog in the Fox, Fluevog and Friends exhibit at MOV. Check out the video here for a look at bits of the exhibition and a peek at some of the shoes.
MOV – Fox, Fluevog & Friends exhibit design
photo by Darren Carcary
Wow! Fox, Fluevog and Friends opened last night to a crowd of 600 people. It really was wonderful to see visitors in the exhibit space for the first time.
(more photos after the jump)
MOV – Fox, Fluevog & Friends exhibit design
The Fox, Fluevog & Friends opening party starts in a few hours. As a little preview of the show, here are two time lapses we shot of part of the install:
Installation of what I’m calling the Wall of ‘Vog – shot over two full shoe-hanging days. Thank you to Chris Friesen (MOV Display Technician) and Rachael Ashe (tireless volunteer) for working on this with me.
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Title wall vinyl being put up by the installers at Arcprint & Imaging.
MOV – Fox, Fluevog & Friends exhibit design
Art of Craft has closed, the objects have been packed up and re-crated. Kind of sad to see it go. But… Darren and I have moved on to designing Fox, Fluevog and Friends – The Story Behind the Shoes.
This latest exhibit opens at MOV on May 14th with the opening party on the evening of May 13th at 7pm.
Here are a few photos of the exhibit in progress after the jump:
Photos from DIY @ MOV Two
DIY @ MOV Two took place on April 9th and it was a pretty great evening. First there’s the setting; the night started while the sun was going down and the city was still visible. It’s hard to beat the view of the West End across False Creek from the Museum of Vancouver. Then there were the hands-on workshops available to introduce people to different crafts. I saw lots of first time spinners, knitters, weavers and felters who looked like they were having a ball. The girl with Birkeland Bros. Wool (I unfortunately didn’t catch her name) did a great job breaking in the unpsun. Spinning is a lot trickier than it looks.
DIY @ MOV II
Art making at DIY @ MOV One
If you were sad to miss it the first time, you have another chance: after a full house debut, DIY @ MOV is back by popular demand.
On APRIL 09, 2010 at 7:00 PM, the Museum of Vancouver will be putting on another night of social crafting with new workshops and more art materials.
There will be weaving, drawing, felting, collage, spinning and jewellery making workshops as well as a mini craft market by Birkeland Bros. Wool, Collage Collage, Fiber Manipulator Jewellery, Urban Source, and Got Craft?.
Come for the crafting or just come for the socialising or to catch the Art of Craft exhibition before it closes.
Music – Bar – Free Materials
$15, Members free
Tickets at the door or online.
Art making at DIY @ MOV One
Sketchbook – 3 birds on vellum
Wild Turkey | willow charcoal, conte & pencil on vellum, 8 1/2″ x 11″
Crow | willow charcoal on vellum, 8 1/2″ x 11″
Muscovy/Mallard | pencil on vellum, 8 1/2″ x 11″
Sketchbook – Fake Collective Nouns for Domestic Dogs
Over the past 10 years, I’ve lost my way with drawing. And I’ve lost what little aptitude I had for ink. I’ve come up with a little project to get me back in tune with the hand/eye skills – it’s a series based on fake collective nouns for domestic dogs that Darren and I have come up with. So far, I have a list 25 breeds long. First up on that list:
A Puddle of Shar Peis
– example: There is a puddle of Shar Peis pooling by the backdoor.
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