June 25, 2009

Massive Art Sale this Saturday!!!




We've turned one of the studios at the 100 Sided Die into a store.  If you don't know about the Die, well, it's basically a huge shared studio in the Mile End.  Tons of artists share the space, so there's a real variety of work.  But our store is only open one day a month, so don't miss it!

Posters , Drawings , Paintings , Tshirts , Badges , Weird Clothing , Tapes , Art prints , Records , Books , Zines , Toys , Art Objects , CDs By::::: Just Seeds Collective , Seripop , Jacinthe Loranger , Jesse Purcell , Jasa Baka aka Parlour Treats , Nomn Ryn, Alice Phieu , Kirsten McCrea, Felix Morel , Walter Scott , Psychic Handshake Recordings , AIDS Wolf++++++

Date:
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Time:
12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
The 100 Sided Die
Street:
5334 De Gaspe -- room 1202
City/Town:
Montreal, QC
Click here to be whisked away to the Facebook event.

June 16, 2009

New Illo! Eye Weekly!

A new illustration for Eye Weekly about how it can sometimes be harder to be a good father than a good mother, because in order to be good fathers men need to be emotional in ways they aren't used to.  

The photo above is a little dull compared to the file I sent in, because: BEHOLD!  What happens when you try to display a file with a CMYK profile on the internet (which works in RGB).  Sigh, I feel like I am always learning and there are 1,000,000 things that can go wrong when computers and printing get together.  

Actually, it looks kind of cool.  Way to work the complimentary colours, internet.
Work in progress: getting near the end.  I really fell in love with the multi-face thing going on above, but ultimately decided that it was the art part of my brain that loved the weirdness of it, and that the illustration part of my brain needed to focus on communicating a message.  In that respect, keeping the second face looking more like a mask was probably a good choice.  Also, the double face thing might be visually confusing to everyone but, say, the person who drew it.  That was my main concern, anyway.

Work in progress: This is what it looked like after day one: a few hours of compiling the various elements.  Day two was refinement and colour choice.  Thank god, because it looks WAY better now.

I'm still iffy on this whole revealing my process thing I'm doing.  I wonder if it makes sense to air so much of my dirty laundry and mistakes out there.  Then again, as an illustrator who is fairly new to the game, I really like seeing how other people do their thang.  And I figure that if I want to see it, I'd better show it too.  So here it is folks!  For now, at least...  Ha ha, until some art director says, "Well, I *was* going to hire you, until I saw your passion for teal early in the process.  Deal breaker!"

June 10, 2009

And yet again...


I wish I could promise you that I'm going to start posting about something other than t-shirt competitions, but I can't.  I've become obsessed.  I mean, I'm definitely still painting every day and making "real" art, but still.  Another t-shirt design submission.  Sorry.  It will stop someday.  I promise.  

Click below to vote!  I really actually do think I could win this one.  And if I do I can breathe a sigh of relief and keep painting full-time for another few months.  Yes, it seems that voting for me is the surest fastest way to get me to shut up about t-shirts.
Take Me With You - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More


June 4, 2009

Threadless again!


I warn you - this is going to get really annoying.  I will not rest until Threadless has printed a shirt I've designed (and yes, it's 100% because it would pay my rent for a long, long time).