Uncle Wally's Ratatouille

I submitted a recipe to www.theydrawandcook.com for a chance to get selected in next year's recipe book! This is my Uncle Walter's famous ratatouille recipe...so easy, healthy and fun to make :)

Illustration Friday- Scattered

Runners were 'scattered' across the city streets...what a site!

That's my attempt at this week's IF word :) I tried watercolor with illustration board and I like how vibrant the colors turned out. The background could use more work I think...

Ben & Lou

Gizmo

An experiment with my new chalk pastels! I love them

Zeebs & Velly

This is my friend Karuna's adorable pets, Zeebs the cat and Velveteen the rabbit.

Animal portraits

This is a sketch I did for my cousin of her doggies, Dopey (left) and Napoleon.

self portrait

This is a portrait of me, painted by a fellow Sheridan illustrator Leslie Dalton. Amazing job!! I want to learn how to paint digitally now...

Illustration Friday: 'Launch'

'To Infinity...and beyond!'

Illustration Friday: 'Swept'

I haven't done an IF post in awhile..I'm going to try to do more. I got inspired by old 60's illustrations and came up with this idea.

Steam Whistle's 'Design a Deck' submission

So, Steam Whistle brewing is having a contest to design a skateboard deck and this is my design. I'm quite happy with it...I love drawing pin-up girls :)

Illustration Friday: Star Gazing

"Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket..."

Illustration Friday: Caged

This is my first Illustration Friday submission. The word is 'caged' and my interpretation is of an artist being deprived of creativity....which I'm sure a lot of us can relate to!

White Queen is complete :)

back in business

It feels so good to get back into illustration! I can't say that enough...

This is a new self project that I will be adding to my portfolio. I am designing the characters from Alice in Wonderland in my own style and will possibly make a deck of cards from it.

This is my first design, the Queen of Hearts.

Bento Box Buttons

This is a new project that I have in the works. My love for sushi and Japanese things has inspired me to be creative and finally get back into art. In January, I will be back in school and taking a two year graphic design course at Humber, so I wanted to brush up my computer skills a little. I will be creating vector graphic sushi and eventually will make them into wearable pin buttons. So far, I have three done and hope to complete ten.
The next step is to find a place where I can buy or rent a button press....I hear that there is a place on Queen Street West called 'The Workroom' where you can use their machine. If anyone has any helpful advice that would be great :)

Toronto Beerfest 2008

Well, the summer has been really slow for job hunting, but a friend of mine I used to work with at Canada's Wonderland  contacted me to help him airbrush shirts at the Toronto Beer Festival so I was more than happy to take this opportunity. This was a four day event, from August 7-11th, Thursday to Sunday. We were airbrushing the shirts for Red Stripe beer, they requested us to go with a musical theme, so Randal made stencil designs of DJ silhouettes with their logo to go on each shirt. We did not expect there to be a lot of people around because of the weather, but we managed to paint almost 300 shirts out of the 500 that they ordered. 

So to sum it up, we had some fun, and the Red Stripe people were satisfied with the results and they will likely ask us to come back next year.