The Fall Colours

 

Spotted Wednesday, outside the People's Mall, a group of adorable schoolgirls photographing Toronto's natural wonders. Among their subjects: a homeless man. 

Toiletpomorphism

I can't help myself; I love these toilets. It's like the the white toilet seems to be reaching out to the pink toilet with its flusher. So romantic!(?) In spite of my better judgment, I'm considering using this image for my business card.

Skeleton Crew Quaterly.

Let me introduce you to my friend Ryan Pratt and the Skeleton Crew Quarterly.  The SCQ is a music review platform from which Ryan writes poetic reviews of upcoming and often undiscovered albums, devises incisive yearly best of lists, and tweets wildly. It’s become my primary source for music journalism, and to return the favor I made a design for the site's banner. He asked me to do this about six mounths ago, and after multiple distractions and a couple rough attempts, I'm finally finished. So here goes my first attempt at graphic design:

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Barcleona was full of it

Here's a picture I made for the birthday of a one Jay Haffie-Emslie (turning sixteen, he naturally needed sixteen birthday presents). This was inspired by a photograph taken outside the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. I really wanted to go, but the wait was long, and my fellow travelers, including Jay, were generally unimpressed with what lay inside. Yet despite the collective malaise, I'm pretty pleased with how this worked out. He and Ben look more like a family in exile, in the midst of a long winters trek, then they do Canadian tourists is Spain. I've taken a bit of a break since finishing this (the detail was pretty exhausting), but I think I'm ready now to get back to it.

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A Burrowing Gregarious Plant-Eating Lady

I've been drawing a lot of animals lately, but found that I was missing the kind of portrait drawing that I used to really love doing as a kid and in High School. So my current animal fixation has morphed a little bit into something stranger (and more disturbing?).

Rabbit Rabbit

After a productive few weeks of writing, I gave myself a day off to do some drawing. This little gentleman was intended to be part of a larger project, but I kind of like him on his own. 

I think I'll probably incorporate him into the larger work in the long run, as I'm pretty attached to the broader idea, but he's nice to look at in the middle of nowhere, for now.

In other news, my sister suggested yesterday that I start drawing pictures of my neighbours. I kind of like the idea, it's just about the right time to start such a project, (Little Portugal will start taking to their porches pretty soon), but I think to pull that off I would have to sneak pictures of them unwittingly. Would that be so wrong?

Stormy Weather

Things are getting a little desperate over here in the Thesis Factory. It should be a great comfort to anyone who feels like they might be in direct competition with me (for say a lifetime achievement award?) that I've spent the past 24 hours doing this