The Canadiana-themed EhOK! group show opened at Canteen this weekend. Inaas asked me to take part months ago, and after some shipping kawfuffles my pieces made it to the gallery in time (thanks Mom & Dad)! Ming Wu posted some photos on his bog, both of the artwork, and the accompanying music show provided by Adam Saikaley and Cinéma L’amour. From the list of artists, I noticed Aaron Lashomb’s name… I wonder if it’s the same Aaron Lashomb I went to high school with…
Update: It looks like it IS the same Aaron Lashomb :) Yay!
Well I’m I bit behind on my posts, but the Two Days Slow show is still going strong at Canteen! This is the piece I made specifically for the show. I wanted to work with a less detailed style, try something new. I drew the entire piece in Adobe Photoshop CS4, using a Wacom Cintiq 12wx tablet (final illustration seen above). Afterwards I had a half-dozen prints made, which I then cut out by hand and bonded together with some foam core, balsa wood, and all-purpose glue. The entire assembly was mounted in a shadowbox. I hadn’t really thought of it before, but with Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland being shown in 3D, it only makes sense that my Alice artwork is also shown in “glorious 3D”! Avatar, eat yer heart out :)
You’ll have to inquire at Canteen if you’re interested in buying the piece, though I’ve got some flat prints of it for sale. If you’re interested in a print, just post a comment here and I’ll make them available in the shop!
Tonight at La Petite Mort, I’ve got my second solo One Night Stand. Last year’s show went over superbly, so I am looking forward to being in Ottawa again. The show’s theme this time around is “Fantastical Fabrications of a Forgotten Future”. I’m trying out some cutout/papercraft elements to go along with the illustrations, and am finally getting digital prints done up in time for the show (see below).
Two days ago, Ryan North published the daily installment of his excellent “Dinosaur Comics“. In it the character genius dinosaur known as T-Rex creates a couple of rather interesting characters, including the above “Sassy Space Cat“.
I couldn’t help but draw this fantastic character, and look! Ryan’s been gracious enough to post it in today’s comic!
Ryan’s all over the internet, and a lot of his links can be found on his Wikipedia entry.
Been so busy, I haven’t been able to promote my new webcomic! Horrible! April 7th marked the launch of the first page of this new weekly and after an additional two weeks, we’ve had over 13,000 readers! I’m completely blown away by the reception the comic has garnered!
Gone to Ground is based on the Warhammer 40,000 universe, designed by Games Workshop for their line of games. The comic follows a squad of lowly grunts as they bumble their way around the battlefield, trying not to get killed by all manner of aliens, empires, and monstrous creatures!
A student friend of mine was working on a conceptual children’s book dealing with the issue of homelessness. She asked if I could supply some illustrations to go with her story – a story about a dog named Sammy who runs away from home and finds himself alone in the big city.
The story is rather interesting as it draws upon many of the issues that the dispossessed face in cities across North America, but it does so in a kid-friendly kind of way.
Fray Issue #3 is on the horizon, and this time I’ve contributed a couple of pieces, including the stand-alone image above! Looking forward to the mag hitting newsstands!
Tomorrow, Canteen‘s hosting the Return to Sender show, just in time for Valentine’s Day! The theme of the show is “unrequited love”, and the only other caveat is that all the submission be done on envelopes! I was able to get my contribution (“Spidey’s Unrequited Love”, above) into the Gallery’s hands the last time I visited Ottawa… but unfortunately I won’t be around for the show.
I’ve been volunteering with the Canadian Improv Games off-and-on since 1994! I’ve even done a lot of the design for merch/adverts on the local level. This year I got to also design the national games’ t-shirts! After the Improv Camp staff/camper tees got such high praise, I was given free reign to do… whatever! The only caveat was that it had to be done in three colours for a white tee.
Working at Fenix Solutions for the past three years, I’ve created a lot of advertising pieces for Carlingwood, a local shopping centre. Usually these involve taking a lot of art direction from the centre’s Marketing Director, but this past September we got to implement a nearly complete branding overhaul!
Aside from their established logo, the only other direction given was the tagline “Shop Together”. Having just returned from ICON5 I was really pushing for illustration over photography.
The campaign (including posters, directories, a website, and flash animation) was launched in September to very positive reviews!
As part of her of the ICON5 program, Toronto-based illustrator Julia Breckenreid organized a collaborative book under the title New York City, Real & Imagined. The idea was to have artists contribute their own visions and interpretations of the big apple to the book, which will be on exhibit at MICA sometime this September.
My contribution is this little piece of retrofuturism; a theme that’s close to my heart. The piece was done in pen and watercolour pencils, which is a medium I’m growing to love. I really like the control it gives me! Now… back to work on my pieces for the La Petite Mort show!
I’ve finally gotten ’round to finishing some new artwork! These three paintings/illustrations are the first in a short series I’m doing exclusively for La Petite Mort gallery here in Ottawa. All three were done in ink & acrylic on paper.
All three pieces are framed in ornate little matte black frames.
I’ve been a member at La Petite Mort since October, but have been very slow to produce work – unfortunately life has intervened to thwart my carefully planned schedule! That being said, I’ll be having a One Night Stand show there at the end of August – and I’m looking forward to it!
As previously blogged, I took part in the first print version of Fray magazine. The premiere edition of the new quarterly arrived the other day, and I have to say I was very impressed with the print quality. The theme for this issue was “busted”, and I was assigned a story to which I really could relate. Here’s my piece (click for an enlargement):
It’s been over a year in the making but the Robotface Collective‘s AtoZee project is finally being let out into the world! As a dual release, the book is being made available in print as well as online. Put together by Robotface’s own Chris Bishop, the site contains the complete works found in the book and uses a handy interface for browsing.
But the internet’s not for everyone; some of you might want to have a real live print version to read to your kids. That’s why Robotface’s Eric Carl created an account at Lulu and has made the print version of Atozee available to the general public. At $9.78 (US), the book’s a steal and makes a great gift… order two though, you may want to keep one yourself!
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