Between the state of my wrists, some family things and the fact that it’s summer, I haven’t been making a whole lot of new art recently. Or rather, what I am working on I am working on so slowly it doesn’t show up on the internet.

So here’s a retrospective of things I have done. This ain’t fine art, this is what I drew when I had free time in highschool and university, and this is the person that wants to draw things for videogames.

Here, let’s start with a few randoms – most of these drawings were cached in story ideas for comics or videogames or novels, but things don’t often go where you want them to, and then eight years later all you have is adorable and amusing drawings to remind you of the good old days.

I’ve done my fair share of fanart, as well:

Now for the high-concept original stuff! These demons were designed, I think, mostly for the helluvit.

These three are for an epic fantasy story I was working on. There was lots of sexy betrayal and sad landscapes and gore involved.

These are a few quick concepts for a story I had written to take place in a farmhouse. I had never, at this point, been inside a farmhouse except at Black Creek Pioneer Village.

These are raven demon designs for a story set in Quebec in the late 17th century.

These are some more artsy things I worked on in the first few years of university that I think are still kind of hilarious/awesome.

Anyways, hopefully that’s hilarious and interesting for you, too, internet! I know I was pretty amused, digging through to find all this.

A little over a year ago I started this series of people-on-cellphones paintings. Some reason or another, I never posted it! So here, take a look.

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I started out with full backgrounds and as I worked further it became obvious that less information was more, generally. I might play with more abstracted backgrounds next.

Hi! I had a fantastic time at Canzine, and while I didn’t exactly spread this link around, apparently people can find this blog and that’s kind of flattering in itself. So thank you to everyone who stopped by for a chat, or picked up a print or two, and especially to all those kind souls who traded me their hard work for mine at the end of the day. My walls are beautiful now!

On the note of thanks, here’s the first of ten thank-you cards I will be creating for my hosts and pillars of support during my train trip last month. This one is going to Chicago:

Here is an in-progress photoshop exercise in colour theory and my own face. I can’t understand how artists would recreationally do self-portraits all the time, a couple hours of this and I’m feeling an awkward tension between narcissism and self-deprecation.

That painting I said was drying? Well it’s still drying. Cursing at it didn’t seem to speed up the process in the slightest.

Heritage Building,
Acrylic and india ink on wood

This was a gift.

Ablution

Screenprinted book work, 8.5″ x 5.5″, edition of 2

2006

A collection of ink drawings I did every morning and night for ten days, screenprinted into books.

Kalanchoe Thyrsiflora

Screenprint and oil painting on masonite, three panels, framed, each 9″ x 12″ unframed

2005

I have a very special relationship with my plants.

Sink

Graphite on rag paper, 22″ x 22″

2005

This piece is very serious and meditative and private … but I always wonder if I will get significantly more hits if I add a tag for anything I post with boobs.