Old Doodles

My Buddy Sean Lewis, Is probably one of the most talented artist I Know. His work is always a lot of fun to look at. So when asked to collab with him in a moleskin, I jumped at the chance. We past the hours of a boring liberal studies class by shoving this book around.

These are just two of many that were shared. The others are split among us on various scraps of paper.

I'm sure later in life I'll open an old text book and come across these random doodles shoved in between the pages, and chuckle.

Eye weekly Illustrations

So last week I was asked to illustrate the possible cover for this weeks(June 10) eye weekly. I was super excited at the opportunity and jumped at the chance to grace the pages of this awesome Toronto publication. The would be cover (above) Is for a band called Pavement, whom I've been a fan of since I was a wee pup. So the commission was a dream job basically and I got a lot of freedom to do what I wanted for the cover. The only down side is that there was no guarantee that it would be the cover image.

As of now I haven't actually seen the cover but I was told that my cover images was not selected:( but I am told that it did make it into the main article for the band:)
I was also asked to make a few spot illustrations to be used with the article and this is what I came up with.
The art director liked the type treatment I made for my web and blog page so worked with those forms and added elements that are reoccurring in the cover art as well as my somewhat signature adornment.

Like I said I haven't seen the paper yet but I believe the type made it to the cover sans the elements and decoration. I can't wait to see the paper and I hope that some people get to check it out.

been a while!

It been a while since my last post. I wanted to take a little break after the hectic grad show stuff. Thanks to everyone that made it in to TCAF a while back. It was my first one and I was pleasantly surprised at the talent represented at the convention.

As for now I've got a few exciting projects on the go but its a little too early to release the new stuff.

Rest assured that I'm keeping busy and still making stuff!

thanks for checking in.

Disposable art show! tonight

Time flys when your having fun! school is finally coming to an end. I had to do an emergency grad installation which was super exciting and overwhelming. So Instead of sleeping last week I painted a skateboard for the disposable art show that opens Today!!, May 8. check it out if you get a chance. Its at 52 mcCaul. should be a good time as always! here is a sneak peak of my deck.

American Illustration 29

I recently found out that I just got 2 pieces selected, to be published in American Illustration #29. Last year I had one of my thesis pieces published and went to the big NY party, Last November. The book is amazing and I urge anyone to take a look at the awesome work that this publication releases annually.

SKINNY DIP,Typeface dessign

Over The Last couple weeks I designed This Typeface. Its called Skinny Dip and is a style of lettering that I have been wanting to do for Quite some time. I designed 3 weights and the one above is the skinny version of the face.
This is the Regular weight face that I designed and based the skinny, and the bold on.
Here is The Bold version with filled counters and parallel lines. Some Characters are more successful than others and it still needs some work but I am pleased with the results and hope to use this face in some future designs.

Skinny Dip, Promo Video

I made this Video for as a promotion for a typeface I designed. It was made using photoshop and imovie. The Song is by an awesome band called Campfires.

CHALK!

Spontaneous Late night chalk drawing @ OCAD. I had some time to kill And found A big hunk of chalk so I went with it. This piece is specifically, kinda about my experience at OCAD. A cryptic cheat sheet for undergrads if you will.

Some New Stuff

This is the piece That I painted for the One 2 Many collaborative piece. Jimmy and I did a sweet resin pour , which I thought turned out really well. This is the first time I played with this clear resin stuff and I am pleased with the results although the fumes were a little stinky!
Setting up the colab piece for the Steam Whistle show!
Jimmy! Steering da boat!

Show Time!

In the last Couple weeks Our apartment transformed into a massive studio set up with our own resin station, AKA the living room.
Jimmy doing his thing. 1 part this, 1 part that. No big deal!
Massive resin pour.
One 2 many, Group show-here we come!
Ryan Lake came by to paint some stumps one night but he was all tuckered out and couldn't resist the charms of my futon.

EASTER

Easter! Went to visit my Parents and my mom drew this little jem for my nephew. soo rad! She knows whats up but doesn't even know it!
Jimmy and I also got a chance to do some late night scavenging to scoop some stumps for our upcoming show!

Creative Type II, window installation!

Here are a few picks of the Window Installation after Steve and I got it Fixed to the brick window frame. Wasn't the easiest installation but I think it still pretty cool. The opening reception was jam packed and really exciting. Thanks to every one that helped me out with this little window project.
In side View!
The out side view @ 52 mcCaul.

Creative Type II, window installation! in progress

Here are a few picks of the window installation that I did for Creative Type II. I assembled it all at OCAD, late one light. Tied crazy knots and cut all kinds of crazy string.

Although the work was tedious, It was nice to do work in the presence of such a beautiful mural, painted by my pal Daniel Downey.

lots o knots!

A little rickety but finished! Now to install!

Creative Type II

Well the Creative Type show, last thursday was a big hit and tons of fun. The event got written up in the National Post. The spread looked great and was nice to see some of the work in print. The image above was my contribution to the show, but you should really check out 52 mcCaul to take in all the amazing work while you can. The show runs until march 28. I was also lucky enough to be asked to do a window instillation for the show, which I will take some shots of and post. The show also made it on to Blog T.o., where your truly as well as a few others got a shout out. They spelt my name wrong but then again who doesn't!

Laser Cut! what! what!

It's not very often that I get to dabble with high tech stuff. So I was petty stoked when I got to harness the powers of a cutting laser to assist me in creating a window installation for the creative type show @ 52 Mcaul this Thursday, march 18. I was a proud papa, walkin through the halls at school with these babies. The smell of burning, Baltic birch filled the OCAD 6th floor, open studio. This is gonna be fun!

Field NOTES, Work!

The Field Notes group show has come to an end, So I thought it would be a good idea to show some of my work from it. All this work is still up for grabs so if your keen on something, drop me an email.

This ones titled, "In Lou of a Bow". Graphite on toned Canson paper. (approx 9"x18")
This one is one of my personal faves! titled, "Twenty Ten, Touring, Tall bike, Tiger". Graphite on toned Canson. (approx 22"x28")
The details are hard to see but it's a charmer! Titled "First Touch". Made of gouache, ink and a bit of graphite all on vintage calligraphy paper. (approx 10"x15")
This Last piece was the first that I made for the show and I think it is still one of my faves. The title is "Contact", made of gouache, ink, and graphite all on water color paper. (approx 22"X28")

All of these pieces are framed and ready to roll! Hope you enjoy this new stuff and thanks to everyone who made it out. It was an amazing night.

pattern and stuff

I finished these patterns this week-end to help jak out with a packaging project for her portfolio.

I can't wait to see the finished project!

Ocad, wall space mural 09

I finally got around to make an animated time lapse of the mural I painted last year! It was a an amazing opportunity and I had a lot of fun working really big for a change. A huge thanks to Gary Taxali and the illustration faculty for letting me paint on the walls.

FIELD NOTES, a group show

We finished up the field notes show yesterday.Took down the work and got all our stuff sorted out. Seeing as the show is done I thought I would post some shots of us putting it all together.
Kellen and Jim tackled the big job of hanging the 3-D letters. Big job!, while I took care of the vinyl. Big thanks to Jamie, for hooking up another great vinyl cut.
Jimmy's getting excited about the set up. We were all pretty pooped but at this stage you get your second wind.
This is a shot of the main east wall.
And the corner where the east and north wall meet.
Here is a shot of the window instillation. This was a lot of fun to do especially in such a good looking window.
We used stuff that we collected over the years, then turned the display into a battlefield for our plastic soldiers. good times!

Thanks to everybody that made it out. We had a great time, once again.

OSKAR&LUKA

Here is a Graphic i've been working on for a kids clothing line that my friend is starting.

OSKAR&LUKA

The sleepy teepee! Did this design for a friend that is starting a artist series kids clothing line. This is just a rough but its starting to take shape. The line is going to be called Oskar & Luka, look for them in the near future.