Well, by all accounts Kim and I should be in Toronto right now at the opening event for the Masters of the Universe art exhibit and Auction (see Magic Pony website for more details). You can see both my pieces here, but if you’re in the neighborhood, why not drop by? We’ll be here until 10pm. If tonight’s not good for you the show’s here until Saturday so you’ve got ample time to check it out.

Here are “He-Man & Teela” and “Les Cycles d’Eternia” respectively. The former was a simple attempt to capture a couple key characters in a different style; nothing really out of the ordinary. The latter piece is a different story; I wanted to take a different approach to the MotU theme, and had just settled on Orko as my subject matter. In researching different styles on the internet, I came across some old French cycling posters.

I really liked the look of those posters, and decided having Orko ride a bike would be fun to paint (considering… he has no legs!). I’ll be running around the gallery with my camera, so you can expect a post-show blogging at some point next week…

Over two weeks in December I finished no less than 7 paintings! :) Being broke makes me have to be cheap; so instead of buying expensive gifts for my family and friends I decided to give out a few paintings! Four of these turned out surprisingly well, and I’m debating working them into a show…

I’ve been doing a lot of house-cleaning on Ripsey these past few days; migrating a lot images over and getting rid of redundancies. In the process I came across a few works from 2003-2004 and thought I’d post them.

I found this image of a painting I did for a Secret Santa exchange a couple of years ago. YayHooray has played host to several secret santas over the past few years (with mixed results). In 2004 I sent this painting to leocap in Buffalo, NY.

This one’s a digital illustration I did for The Canadian Improv Games earlier that year. I’ve done several design jobs for the Games over the years, and still continue to be involved with the organization as a volunteer. This “ImprovBot” illustration was used in a poster campaign I deisgned for the Ottawa Regionals that year.

Lastly, here’s an interesting piece; my first attempt at digital illustration! I had just dug up my old tablet and was fooling around with Photoshop brushes. My aim was to do at least one drawing a day to get used to using my Wacom again (I had bought it about four years prior but never really used it for much).