So I said i wouldnt put final stuff online...but i just did with that Connie Illustration...tsk tsk.
And im also going to show some "work in progress". (I want to keep people exited.) And to be honnest, it feels a little weird to be working hard all day and not to post anything...this blog habbit is so natural now. Finish something, post, read feedback, repeat...
These are recycled skate decks. They arent that easy to work with since they involve much more prepping then brand new ones would. (ive seen a lot of amazing art on skateboards in galeries, and i was dying to try it myself. really, i was dying.) BUT, id rather use the rolled-on ones for many different reasons, first of all they are less expensive for me, therefore will be more affordable to purchase for people. (otherwise the price would be related to buying a skateboard AND a painting for your wall...) And also i like using things that have a lot of life to them. And finaly, those were going to end up in a dumbster. (i like to think that people would have recycled them...but i doubt it. )
Thanks a trillion to my friend Caroline for posing for me.
And Miss Pearl too. (which i can draw with my eyes closed at this point.)
Btw, this portrait of her will be in the show also, as a limited edition giclée print on rice paper.
The logs are pretty much the pièce de résistance, i think. Maybe because they are quite original and painful. The work implied in getting them (many, many tribulations...) and then prepping them and working around the painter-unfriendly nature of them makes them just the more interesting.
Also to be noted, i am canadian. So logs...very dear to me.
Thanks a lot to my moral officer. :) I like this picture of us and since we havent really gotten any new ones online, so there it is: unrelated. (note the lumberjack apparel.)