Coloured Boxers

Here's an experiment in colour. Fun!

Enjoy!

Fighters in Black and White

Here's some boxers I drew. They have no eyes!!!!

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Printing Blocks

I got these two printing blocks super cheap at the OCAD book arts fair. Their awesome! I wanna get more!

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Finished Pigs

Messing around with images. Just having some fun.

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Hilarious!

I got this as a christmas present last year. Just found it. Awesome in very possible way.

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Cool signage

Here's some really great old soda pop signs.

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IF - Round

Here's one for illustration Friday.

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Pig Sculpture

Recently Claudia and I discovered that there must have been a trend in the 80's to have small sculptures of pigs having sex........ anything else I say now will have no impact on you.

This is a drawing of one of the two sculptures that we are now the proud owners of.

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APT - Ep. 14 - "Rent Party"

The APT has been on TV for a while now. Sometimes I get recognized and I feel like a big shot. Mostly not though. Check out the episodes on YouTube!

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Toys!

The toy gravy is flowing free.

I guess technically these have become closer to sculptures than toys. Still, I'm having a blast making them. Thanks so much to Liam for all his help on this!

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Fruity Boys

This is my re-interpretation of Reubens' "The Fruit Bearers"

This was done mostly because I was bored. But it was tons of fun. I may do more.

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Making Molds

After 11 months I'm finally starting the process of making copies of my Bubblegum sculpture. My friend Andrew Finlay Stewart (there's a link to his website on the right) introduced me to a friend of his that works in the plastics lab at OCAD. Liam helped me make the mold of my sculpture tonight. It was pretty awesome! First we constructed a box to contain the mold, we used some chemical adhesive that instantly bonds the pieces of plastic together in a water tight seal. Then we mixed the silicone rubber (that cool blue stuff). Then we used a vacuum chamber to remove any air bubbles from the silicone to ensure a perfect cast. Now we just wait for the mold to harden and then we're off to the races!

Thanks Liam, I had a blast with you in the lab today!

How many Hats?

This is an illustration for an article about how many different careers the average person will have in their lifetime. How many hats will you wear?

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Fluctuating Prices

Here's an illustration about Fluctuating Stock Prices. Enjoy!

Men are so Easy to Please

Here's an illustration! It's about how easy it is to keep men happy.

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Free Records!

Claudia and I met a woman named Jane yesterday who was tossing out a bunch of her old Vinyl. She was gracious enough to let us take what we wanted! I just wanted to say thanks Jane! You're awesome!!!

Halloween Film Festival!

It's been a while since I posted anything. I've been in hiding lately, not doing nearly enough illustration. What I did do was to watch 31 Horror movies this October to get geared up for Halloween!!! The build-up lead to the screening of the Shining at the Fox, which I did the poster for. Check the photo of my poster projected on the big screen in front of a sold out theatre! Crazy!

Also, I was dressed as Jack and Claudia as dressed as Wendy, Andrew was also dressed as Jack so we did a group photo. Halloween is for sure the best holiday of the year!

This is the list of Horror films I watched, granted very few of them were actually good, but the spirit of the holiday is what counts.

1) The House by the Cemetery 2) Demon Night

3) Prince of Darkness 4) Teeth

5) Cabin Fever 6) House of 1000 Corpses

7) House on Haunted Hill (1959) 8) The Devil's Rejects

9) Black Death 10) The People Under the Stairs

11) Vampires 12) The Burrowers

13) Warlock 14) The Thing (1982)

15) The Thing (2011) 16) From Beyond

17) The Fly (1986) 18) Night of the Demons

19) The Fly 2 20) The Ninth Gate

21) The Serpent and the Rainbow 22) The Hidden

23) The Hidden 2 24) Thinner

25) Videodrome 26) Paranormal Activity 2

27) The Fly (1958) 28) Clockwork Orange

29) Paranormal Activity 3 30) Alien

31) The Shinning

Have fun next Halloween!!!!!

Fukidasu Close-up

This is one frame from a Fukidasu project. Poop in the face! Yikes!

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Final Shining

Here it is. All coloured up and what not.

Remember to go see the most awesome "horror" movie of all time at the Fox this Halloween, it will be preceded by the 35mm print of Ridley Scott's Alien. Awesome!!

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Work in Progress

Once again the Fox is showing the Shining. It's one of my favorite movies of all time. I especially like the strange scene with the Furry reference.

This is a poster in progress. Not quite finished.

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Face

This is a doodle from a notebook. I like the creepy quality to his face. He reminds me of a character from a David Lynch movie.

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October brings the ink

So it's cold outside again, which means I want to be inside as much as possible making art. This is an ink painting experiment. I'm gonna do more of this.

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Squidface and the Meddler

Squidface and the meddler have featured the upcoming speak easy show on their website and they're using my illustration to promote it! Yay! Maximum Exposure for Gramma Jones!

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New Swinger

Here he is, now with paint!

It's for an editorial piece about fluctuating stock market prices.

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Swing Man

Here's a drawing of a man on a swing. Happy Sunday!

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Another Welcome

I'm pretty sure this big baby has been on my blog before, but just in case. I used it as a temporary welcome page for a week or so. It wasn't quite right, but I've always liked this drawing.

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Playing with Heads

Here's some of the screen printed heads, now with emotions! And Hair!

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New Toy Sculpt

This is the start of a new Toy Sculpt. This one is a character from an older illustration. His name is 2. The design will be simpler than the bubblegum toy and as a result will be easier to mold and reproduce. It will essentially be a solid piece of polymer with no intricate limb positioning.

Sculpting is fun!

Enjoy!

Aborted Welcome Page

This was a temporary Welcome Page for my website. I took it down because it looked a bit too much like I just grabbed a random image from my sketch book. I like the drawing though so I figured I share it.

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Speak Easy Invite

Here's my invite to this year's Speak Easy show. Hope to see you there!

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Junior Arithmetic

Check out this awesome book! A 1948 Government of Ontario approved Math textbook!!!
I love the texture and the printing quality. If I had books this cool when I was a lad I may have decided to be a financial adviser or a accountant. Alas, it was not meant to be.

Seriously nice book though.

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2011 Speak Easy

I've been offered the chance to participate in this year's Speak Easy Illustration show at the Gladstone Hotel! I've been a part of this show twice in the past and I've had fun both times. Looking forward to seeing some great work.

The show is on October the 6th at the Gladstone, come out and see the work (and drink some steamwhistle).

Screened Head

This is the latest use of my screen printer. Lots and lots of these heads floating around the office today. I'm not 100% sure what to do with them all et but I do know that they all need mouths of varying expressions. Fun stuff.

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Elvis King

Here's a doodle from the old sketchbook.

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Newest Pet disguise

This is the latest in the Pet Disguise series. Now Data can be a mean ol' Cowboy. Yippie o Yippie yay.

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Colour Ghost

This is the colouring for the portrait I did of Roman. I really like the way it gives a vague sense of the drawing without giving away any details. It's a pretty neat looking thing all on its lonesome.

Some new projects coming soon. Look forward to seeing some brand new work very soon!

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Inspirations

This is some cool street art from Halifax. Just a happy thing to look at for the day.

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The Artfuls

Wow!

Tony made me illustrator of the day over at www.theartfuls.com

So Cool! It's always nice to know that people dig your work. Check out the site as it has a lot of great artists on it. I'm really pleased right now. Thanks Tony!!!!

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Swan Love

This is a sketch for a bigger project. It's a lady making sweet love to a Swan. Totally inspired by Reubens. I love his style and his compositions, check out Fruit Dance if you get a chance. Creepy and awesome stuff.

This project will incorporate Men and Seahorses as well. Guilded frames, silicone cement, and messages of frustration. It'll be huge. And secret. Don't tell ANYONE. That's how secret.

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Joe's Scarecrow

This is also from the trip to Nova Scotia. We stumbled across a bizarre roadside attraction called Joe's Scarecrow. It's basically an open field on Cape Breton Island full of terrifying scarecrows wearing Halloween masks. I would hate to be there alone at night. I think they come alive and eat children.

We met a girl named Elize from Amsterdam on our trip (super cool girl!) and she came with us to this horror show. When she saw this child sized mannequin she gasped and said "Pinnochio's cold dead eyes will offer no solace". Truer words have never been spoken.

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Nova Scotia

Claudia, Michelle and I went to Nova Scotia last week. We had a series of adventures and took tons of photos. I know this isn't supposed to be a personal blog and it should only really be about my illustration/art practice but part of that process is finding inspiration. And man o man was the trip inspiring. These are a select few of the photos I took on my i-phone. I really think the scenery is amazing and will inform the negative space within my illustrations in strange ways. I know that sounds like silly art excuse talk but it's the truth. Anyway, if anyone ever gets the chance to go on a road trip with some good friends I highly recommend it.

Enjoy.