Recently, I found some old sketches I did years ago for a (killed) project. I’m feeling a bit inspired to revisit them and take them a bit further, now that I have regular, living reference buzzing around outside the window.
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I’ve just finished a fun little project illustrating some promo materials for the talented team who have put together this year’s Interesting Vancouver. The primary use is for the website, so that informed the format. They are intended as visual texture behind the content and were inspired by soundbites from past Interesting Vancouver talks.
There are so many other great topics, with so many evocative stories I wish I had time to illustrate too, like: suits/armour/codpieces, iguanas, incarceration, terrified dancing dads, chocolate science, perfume science, beer, a transgender journey, foraging in the wilds of Vancouver, BC’s absurd liquor laws, and sex work in Vancouver, to name a few.
All the past talks are available through IV’s Vimeo page (where you might catch a glimpse of an actual tattooed bum).
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Sandwiched in among all the exhibit design work my partner and I have on the go right now, I am working on something a bit fun and interesting.
More details on that to come shortly, but in the meantime here’s a piece that started out fun, but then started to become annoying when it didn’t work out as I wanted.
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.
I’ve added new work to the illustration section of my portfolio (here and here). These were created for 2 +15’s (the covered, elevated walkways located above street level) in Calgary, AB to celebrate winter activities in the city’s parks.
The final illustrations were cut from frosted vinyl and adhered to the windows (vinyl and install by Artcraft Display Graphics), then lit by Eos Lightmedia. I haven’t seen the photos of the final install so I’m not really sure what the final installation looks like – but this is what the final vector files looked like when I handed them off for vinyl cutting. The work was installed January 2010.
The top illustration is 7’6″x aprox 90′ and covers all the window panes on one side of the walkway. The lower illustration (the snowball fight), spans 4 windows.
I’ve had a lot of projects on the go over the last few months. But as they’re all ongoing, I can’t quite post them yet. However, here are some of the sketches for the very newest project that might actually be done and installed before all the rest. This image is fitting because it looks like it’s just begun to snow in earnest here and the roads are covered with the first of tonight’s forecasted 15cm.
Edit: the final work is here.
This is a little Photoshop exercise using a doodle from one of my sketchbooks.
This creature needs a name along the lines of this fish – the sarcastic fringehead. The sarcastic fringehead was on the recently aired ‘Fish’ episode of David Attenborough’s Life and I’m not sure what delights me more – its name or its looks.
Here’s another clip of a pair of battling sarcastic fringheads.
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