here are a few drawings i have done recently using pen and ink in my sketchbook or mylar paper as i did for my silkscreens. i would like to incorporate colour into these as well.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
pen and ink drawings
here are a few drawings i have done recently using pen and ink in my sketchbook or mylar paper as i did for my silkscreens. i would like to incorporate colour into these as well.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
european travel montages
These are some images i took on my travels through a few cities in europe. It is difficult to capture one place with one image... so i was inspired to place images together... to give a 'multiple' impression. The images were more 'compositionally' connected rather than just purely observational. When I did this it gave an interesting story to the placed visuals...
Monday, December 22, 2008
silkscreens
While doing a silkscreen workshop at a local retailer on queen street in Toronto, I came up with a series of designs using pen and ink. My thoughts were focused on victorian-style furniture. Although most of the art was created with ink on mylar paper, I used a process called rubylith to create the pillows {above left} and candle flames {right} as a different colour. I was at the workshop from 10 am to 11pm at night. It started out with about 25 people then filtered to about 4 of us in the evening who basically couldn't stop silkscreening.
Monday, December 15, 2008
ruby magazine.
Myself and photographer friend Julee Wyld just collaborated on a mini-magazine called 'ruby'. Julee had recently photographed a tonne of stuff at Vancouver Fashion Week... and well,.. me needing a creative project very badly while freezing my butt off here in Saskatchewan, I asked her if she would mind if i used some of her images for a layout. I felt her recent work really lent to a clean fashion mag geared toward late teens/twenty something urban girls with good taste and a bit of an edge. I chose the name 'ruby' for its classic yet approachable appeal. It is also a name used alittle in rock and roll history {ie. beatles, kaiser chiefs} which I feel suited the look and sensibility going for here...hope you enjoy. thanks so much Julee, you rock :)
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
exercising on a roof. vietnam.
this is a big part of a lot of people's day here. but they do it early - i'm talkin' 5am. ... since the tempurature and humidity gets pretty crazy.
working ladies. hanoi.
i think half my photos at first were of these ladies on the streets selling food in balancing baskets. loved them. this shot says more in the sense of their activity.
buildings and electrical systems...
most of vietnam is adorned in the french colonial style {for obvious reasons i won't get into..}. housing is small, very effective for a country of over 83 million and an area of only 300,000 km. one thing of note is this countries crazy electrical syustems that run through cities and town in a black horizontal mish mash. i would not want to be an electrician here!
hanoi . motorbikes !
i loved loved LOVED riding a motorbike in vietnam! this was my first day experiencing the amount of bikes they actually have in this country. it is a very cost effective source of transportation. these guys have NO ROAD RULES, yet i never saw one accident.
vietnam.
i was recently in vietnam. i travelled from hanoi in the north to ho chi mihn {saigon} in the south for 30 days. 15 of those days was on a bike tour. this is a shot of a street in hanoi. my first impression of vietnam, and what i was envisioning. the people work very hard but relax very hard. i could not help but be curious of all the little doors, houses and chairs and amazing food everywhere... it was a trip that will last in my mind forever.
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