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Save the Sudbury Watertowers Art Show

Joel and I (but mostly Joel) organized an art show at the local Fromagerie to save the Sudbury watertowers, which were slated for demolition…but now are saved!

We don’t expect anyone to give Joel credit for pretty much raising awareness in a city that doesn’t give a sh*t about most things cultural, but I want to put it on record that Joel is basically the reason these watertowers  were saved, by keeping the issue in the local media.

Just goes to show, blogs go a long way in small places. Read more about it at his Save the Sudbury Watertowers blog.

My watertower sketch (which I drew plein air about a year ago) went up in the show beside Joel’s. We were sitting in the same spot, so the sketches are pretty similar, the only difference being that mine has a bit of colour in it.

 

Joel and my save-the-date

Joel illustrated our letterpress save-the-date to match his proposal book so the theme was red coral (like my ring), diving bells and turtles. And since we are great believers in killing two birds with one stone, he also used the graphic as a promo for his illustration.

 Three colours printed by moi on Crane Lettra, 140 lbs pearl white. 5×7.

The turtle shell even took on a concave shape during printing!

x-posted from Papillon Press’ blog

New year, new website

Nearly every year I re-do my website, and this is the best one yet! I’ve really scaled things down since the last one, which makes it so much easier to upload new content. I’ve scaled back on the illustration side as well; this year I will be concentrating mostly on drawing than painting.  I’m usually pretty terrible at blogging, but this year one of my resolutions is to keep this blog (and my Papillon Press blog) updated regularly.

First piece of the new year is entitled Midnight Run.

Backlog- Costa Rica Sketches

As I mentioned previously, my website is a complete mess at the moment. I don’t know what happened and quite frankly I don’t know how to fix it. I’m looking at a complete overhaul (again) in the near future.

Anyway, I’ve finally managed to upload my Costa Rica sketches. I went to Costa Rica for six days in August and I sketched nearly every day (I’m so proud of myself). I always wanted to be one of those artists who keeps an amazing travel sketchbook, so hopefully I’m working my way up to that. I’m not very good at filling up the entire page and drawing over other things, but I started to do it a bit this time.

The Teatro Nacional in San José. San José really doesn’t have that much going for it in terms of architecture, but this is one of the better historical buildings. Unfortunately it was closed when I sketched this. I also got a sunburn while sketching this.

 

A beach in Manuel Antonio. It was so humid here that the sand was constantly wet and stuck to you. I honestly thought I would pass out from the humidity. It never dried so and I kept finding sand in my clothes for the next few days.

 

Another beach sketch in Manuel Antonio. There really is nothing else to do on the beach but sketch the people lazing around.

 

Costa Rica is known for its orchids, some which are almost microscopic.