Upcoming Exhibition

Slowly getting myself ready for some new/old work to be put on display, details to follow.

Here is a sample: 10 years of sketches made in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood where my studio is located.

Hey! a great review in NOW magazine for my current Loop show. You can read it, NOW Thanks to everyone who has supported me with getting this show ready, and opening on time. Thanks for the support from my Sarah and our baby sitting Grandma/Meme team and the copious amounts of Coffee from Jet Fuel and Rooster.

Drawing of Omar in preparation for NOW magazine

Here is a sketch of local coffee shop guy, Omar, a Montreal native who posed for me before my sketching gig with Now Magazine.

Details on that to follow.

Simple Drawing with the iPad

I have not yet really got a handle on drawing with the iPad 2, or at least, have not really looked at all the options with the program Brushes....it is ok, but a little too non intuitive. Like the iPhone, one button is cool but not as practical as having a few more buttons so that you don't have to constantly go into your menus....what is this, Windows?

Anyways, was drawing these two women and this little kid while they were having a coffee and everyone was debating the merits and pitfalls of Champix.

By the way, the colours looked nothing like this on tablet, still trying to figure out what happened.

Click here if you would like to see a few of David Hockney's paintings using the iPad and the Brushes application. But honestly, his 'conventional' paintings and water colours are much better.

Sketching with the Wacom Inkling

Since I was in the states, I was able to snap up one of Wacom's much talked about but super late released, Inkling. This device allows you to draw in your sketchbook ( with their ink) and a digital record will be created of the drawing. Furthermore, you can add layers while drawings and convert it into vectors....yowzers, it is exciting.

I am pretty happy with this test, clearly I did not heed do not sketch within 2cm of the reader, poor Omar has lost his head here, I was happy with that part- and Luke's head is clipped too. But a cool start. Here is to the device on Wacom's website The thing has already sold out of Amazon.com, and they don't ship to Canada.

quick sketch

I'm thinking that i'll upload sketches for the days that I do them on. This was a sketch I did at Jet Fuel using conte with this awesome pen tool/holder my brother got me in Spain in 1992 at the Seville Expo.

This guys was on the phone with his hoodie.

As far as the Expo 1992 goes, you can find more here yup, it was to be a celebration of the 500 years since Columbus 'discovered' the Americas and all the fun that has ensued, they took a more upbeat look on it, when I say upbeat, I mean they glossed over what indigenous people of the Americas have endured.

But it was the 90s you might say.

Collective Memory II

Collective Memory was a show I had in 2006, images of my personal and work spaces were mirrored with my family's penchant for collecting and saving items of dubious beauty.

Starting in February, I will be building a new installation, at the Jet Fuel. This will be using the "stuff' that has always sat in the basement at the family home and constitutes a life. This idea stems from a series of conversations I have had over the past few years with Daniel Garber, who with his site, culturalmining.com has an interest in aspects of cultural and its language. We have been exchanging ideas ever since I started to take papers, bills and flyers from our basement and posting them to the wall at Jet Fuel. He catches all the subtle nuances of the visual elements and printing quirks of these old documents. Daniel Garber ladies and gentlemen, a real gem.

The large obstacles are how to re-create something that lives on shelves in a basement while being visually interesting and faithful to these objects, how they came to be together and what they mean to those who stored them rather than threw them out.

So, it is an exercise in limiting your ego and letting the wonder of a commodore 64, AFX race tracks and about 3000 other interesting things play off each other.

Collective Memory II, at the Jet Fuel (519 Parliament ST) for the month of February, please come check it out if you are not claustrophobic.

Please check out Daniel's site, culturalmining.com

Then tambourine man slides all over the place

Note, images that were on the wall were Stacey Brandford's Roller girls.

Practice continues

things start to get sloppy

Edge of his seat

Last minute studies during band practice

March 31st, 2008

Some guy at Jet Fuel.

March 6th, 2008

This must be Nicola at Jet Fuel.

Louis Negin, July 11, 2007

Looking really tough

The view Jet fuel on a snowy Dec 20ish 2006