Bean sprout ideas

I've always liked messing around with moving pictures. This is just a little short that I started to play around with.

Last Week I had the pleasure of helping out a good friend, and learn all about screen printing at the Halo Halo studio.
studio kitten! "shorty", but you to say it in an auto tune voice= showdy!
What a sweet set up, there is so much cool stuff to look at. Jeff Garcia and friends have done a great job of setting up this awesome studio space.

Jeff does screen printing lessons and is a rad dude, so give him a call for all your screen printing needs!

FILM NORTH trailers

The good people of Concrete Design made this little diddy! so rad!

HIGH TIDE poster

I decided to create a vector version of the high tide poster that I painted in my previous post! At First I really liked the painted version but now I'm starting to think that this version is superior! If anyone has a preference, let me know?

HIGH TIDE

This is just a personal piece that I wanted to do for a while. There is no real concept behind it but I was inspired by a band that I've been listen to a lot, lately. The group is called Tennis. They are from Denver but bought a sailboat in Florida and wrote a bunch of songs sailing around the Pacific.Before their money ran out! What a great way to focus on a project!

FILM NORTH POSTER, and branding

Earlier this summer I was approached to create some illustrations for a film festival that takes place in Huntsville, Ontario. The film festival is called Film North and this is it's debut year.

I Love Huntsville so much, its a beautiful little town to visit if your ever in the area. The direction was to create Canadiana, elements that could be collaged together to form a large poster. I am happy with the way it turned out and stoked that I had the opportunity to draw this kinda stuff.
As a promotion a few of my drawings were turned into rub on tattoos.

I love the way they turned out. Rad to see people rockin them!

Eye weekly spot

I just finished this little spot illustration for the upcoming eye issue. I had a lot of fun working on this guy and so glad that I had an opportunity to draw a cartoon millipede walking through a tacos and can of PBR.

My skate board! again!

I've been surfing the inter web And came across this much higher quality shot of the deck I painted. Here's a link about the show. These guys rule!

I hope I can paint another for next years disposable art show!

wake skate

A while ago, I made some art work for my friend, Nic Harlos. He is a sick dude and sponsored for wake skating. He liked my design so he stuck it on a board and these are a few shots of the finished graphic on the actual board. It's so great to see it all done especially when it is on a 3 dimensional structure. Thanks Nic!

RAD!

I never got to see this in person But it was posted on facebook. bad ass!

Back to the sketch book

I've been spending a lot of time using my computer to do work Lately, so it feels good to get back to basics and spend some time making random sketches. Pages like these, often help me discover new ideas and compositions. Good old, pen and paper!

2 wheels, 1 stick of chalk, 1 bf, and a bunch of trail mix

As most people know, I'm really into bikes. I own a few and enjoy riding them as much as possible. Bicycle touring is one of my favorite types of biking because it combines aspects of camping with cycling. Touring allows you to see an area in a very intimate way. It is so different then travelling by car. You earn every km and it is super rewarding.

A couple days ago, one of my best friends and I loaded up the bikes and headed north west to Conestoga. When touring, churches and cemeteries offer a nice place to rest and often a place to fill up water bottles.
I brought along some chalk and tried to draw something every time we stopped.
I used to bring a sketch book with me on a tour but I find it much more exciting to search for cool surfaces to muck around with. Plus sketch books are a lot heavier.

I love stumps!
This guy is one of my favorites!

These trail head markers were awesome pieces to work on.

We road through lots of Amish communities which may have inspired this guy.
Another beautiful place to rest.

Big open roads and a simple way to move along them. touring is awesome.

Hap-Hazard, high park

Here is a photo of the final installation. You can find this little guy tucked away in a cozy corner of high park.

We had lots of fun making the structure and got rid of a lot of clutter at the same time. A big thanks to our friend Ty, Who helped lend a hand for this project.

Hopefully we'll have a few more shots of the ti pi in the future.

It started to rain just as we were finishing, so we didn't stick around to document it as well as we wanted.

After we painted up the wood, we made these cool bundles that looked rad, all together.

We moved all the wood of the patio and filled up the living room, instead! Sometimes things have to get a little bit worse before they can get better.

Jimmy and I have been collecting scraps of wood, and storing them for some kind of unknown project. Our tiny patio was packed so full that it was hindering our bar b q set up and causing a potential fire hazard. We decided to paint up the scraps and make some kind of installation.

FRIENDS WITH YOU

After work this Wednesday I jumped on my bike and rode up to queens park for the Friends With You, Installation.
I've loved the work of these Miami based artists for a very long time, So I was very pleased to finally see there amazing work in person.
Their work is also on Display at Narwhal gallery and it is worth checking out. There are also a few more installations by FWY, peppered around Toronto which I hope to search out in the next few days. Soooo good!

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.