March 25th, 2008...Waiting at some office

I have some vague memory of drawing this while waiting in an open office, but it is vague.

And Lastly...

I asked John on Monday why he looked all cleaned up, "Went to Mom's for Easter buddy" you can see the clean fresh face of Mr.renovations. John has been loads of late night work at the shop, and he is more of a morning person.

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James, Model Wrangler Esq.

James, is a student who was integral to the photo shoot. He is the one who brought everyone over to the coffee shop and organised all the 16 year olds, without a taser or lasso.

I think he is a regular at the Jet, just not in my time zone.

Goals

I cannot say we ( 4 photographers in total) took the shots with any one idea in mind, but there are ideas of optimism and the promises of youth.

Bright lights of Tomorrow

All the students looked like musicians, new bohemians or whatever.

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Johnny yet Again

Here is johnny as per, smoke a going. We have looked at different ideas for the anniversary, images of the recent renovations, but this idea of the sweet 16 stuck.

Stefanya

This is one of the photographers, Stefanya who is also a Tattoo artist.

sixteen year olds

The students who came out and were generous enough to donate their time to 4 photographers.

Jet Fuel 16 and Counting

Jet Fuel has its 16th anniversary "kegger" on April 1st, a true evening of tom foolery and debauchery. To this end, the theme is sweet sixteen and we took photos of local 16 year olds, under the watchful eye of Johnny, the proprietor of Jet Fuel and enfant terrible of the espresso world.

Here is a classic image of Johnny, up close and possibly too personal.

Marker drawings

Drawings at some impromptu party I was not interested in

I cannot add anything to that

Experimenting in Inks

Working in this sketchbook, I first started to play a great deal with Inks. Looking at these beaten-up old toy heads, it is really fascinating. These things came from a high quality toy factory in Hong Kong, this level of quality maybe only exists today for precision computer parts, and I know they are all made from the same injection mould but they all seem so different. Toy insiders say that the original head was based on the JFK.

Inspired by Old Masters Sketchbooks

Sketchbook images

I was talking to a photographer friend the other night about pictures and her recent work was about dolls. She was talking about the way she felt that these characters had been given such life by being posed in front of the camera. It made me think about my GIJOE work that has been an interest of mine for the past 10 years.

Here are a few examples of some sketches from awhile back

Guy reading the paper at Jet Fuel, March 6th, 2008.

I love this sketchbook, I got it at Muji London in 2006. They don't seem to have the same quality anymore.

March 6th, 2008

This must be Nicola at Jet Fuel.

Lena being emphatic

View of the door of the bar

I always like the way you see the numbers backward from the inside of the Cobourg.

February 23rd, 2008 continued

The only person I recognize here is Lena on the right.

February 23rd, 2008

Jazz, again.

Sigh, can you not just drink and draw in peace?

Apparently that did not stop Reg from being here, on the right.

February 17th, 2008, At the Tranzac

This was a gig Tim was doing, there was an visual image he made about a forest of steel that I really likes, I wrote it in the note paper on the left hand side, vertically in this drawing.

With that lock of hair and pushed out jaw, I think I caught something of Tim here.

January sometime 2008.... At the Analyst.

I felt this really captured something.

Around January 13th, 2008

This was drawn during a b day party for Amy, so long ago.

December 11th, 2007 at Kintaro

This is a great place for home made ramen noodles in Vancouver.

December 10th, 2007, Barney's

December 10th, 2007

a drawing one night at Barney's in Vancouver

Coffee line up at Melriches

Cabbagetown

I cannot remember anything about these 2 people

But I feel like it is on the tip of my tongue.

Aquarium

you felt like you were meant to wait awhile as there was a Aquarium for you to look at. The fishes looked fairly bored and exhibited, at times, fairly anti-social behavior.

Wet Floor

Sitting around

This kid sat with a horribly mangled ankle, he was wearing a football uniform and had the face of a ten year old.

This guy looked like that guy from Hero

Sitting in the Waiting Room

Sat in the MRI office for 3+ hours and just drew as I waited with my mother. It had its grim moments but, by and large, watching people is always interesting.

Mildly aggressive at the bar

At a table

Drunks at night

This is a guy drinking in a bar, I cannot actually say if the person was drunk

Poppies in Vancouver

Random images from 2004 sketchbook (IV)

An entirely random and somewhat fanciful look at revelers and drinkers at the Velvet Underground, on a cold night a few years back.

Random images from 2004 sketchbook (III)

More "C" things (see below), Mark Twain nee Samuel Clemens.

Random images from 2004 sketchbook (II)

This sketch was an idea for (yet another) uncompleted idea. I wanted to have a massive piece of artwork which would include a multitude of characters and places, the only link between all these characters would be that they are all found within one volume of an encyclopedia, remember those things?
So in this mini 2 page spread you see Christian X (of Norway, no relation to Malcolm X) Saint Christopher with the heavy baby Jesus, the shores of county Cork, a Carp fish, and various Americans brought to China to quell the Boxer revolt.

Random images from 2004 sketchbook (I)

Busy Morning at Melriches

Who were they?

Sitting outside the VAG, the Vancouver Art Gallery that is, I noticed this couple. I had just been walking around the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping's show- it was amazing. I stepped out to get some air and noticed this couple, they looked fascinating. The guy had this "pissed off smoker" look and the lady was awkwardly moving in a wheelchair. They seemed like they went through a car accident or similar traumatic event together. The muscles of his back were taut with what seemed like either anger or apathy if that is possible.