June 10th 2013
May 29th 2013
For a change, I'd like to post someone else's work that I've been admiring lately. (Okay, admiring is putting it lightly; I'm a little obsessed with it).
A friend had told me to check out the Rose Bakery book, How to Boil an Egg, a little while ago because she thought I'd like the watercolour illustrations throughout it. She wasn't kidding! It's always nice to find new sources of inspiration, and this was quite the gem.
They're painted by British artist, Fiona Strickland. She mainly paints highly realistic botanical illustrations, but made the most incredible, highly rendered paintings of food for this book.
Fiona, you're a marvel.
May 27th 2013
I was contacted by Brooke Manning a little while back to create signage for the shop she'll be opening here in Toronto a little later in the summer.
She sent me some pretty fantastic reference to go from; a 1928 cover of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, which I used to hand-letter the name of her shop, Likely General. She also asked that her sweet Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Ellie, be included in the design. I ended up having a ton of fun both painting and lettering this project for her, and was excited to see it all up on her new website, (even the favicon at the top!).
Above is the painting that she's using for her site, and below; the line drawing is what she's planning to use for her stamps. I was really happy with the way everything came together.
Her sweet little Roncesvalles general store will be opening in August of this year, and I'm thrilled for her! Yay, Brooke!
May 10th 2013
Today, it's rainy and grey, so I'll share a little painting I did of a husky recently that cheers me right up.
Also, in some great news for the art world; the MoMA is rethinking their plans to demolish the American Folk Art Museum in New York.
May 7th 2013
Posted above are a few more of the portraits I've done in the past few months for the business section of Southwest Airline's Spirit Magazine.
The first is of Marc Schoen, Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA Geffen School of Medicine; the second, of John Mackey, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, and the last is of Penn Jillette, of illusionist team Penn and Teller.
The first is of Marc Schoen, Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA Geffen School of Medicine; the second, of John Mackey, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, and the last is of Penn Jillette, of illusionist team Penn and Teller.
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