Just a heads up. Yes there is a new tag there; 100 cats. Probably shouldn’t talk about projects, but I am drawing 100 cat drawings and want to gather them in another ebook. Filed under: art, digital, iPad Tagged: 100 cats, Cat
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cartoon life: Air cat
Filed under: art, digital, drawing, iPad Tagged: 100 cats, Cat, zen brush
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Filed under: digital, drawing, iPad Tagged: Cat
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sketched with SketchTime Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: art, Cat
Continue readingcartoon life: 8 Panels again
Better pictures. Better white balance, though there’s just a bit too much colour in some of the white areas. But, I paint in the basement, and these are the first time I’ve seen them outside in proper light. If you’ve seen the landscape collages, the major forms are recycled from
Continue readingcartoon life: If you meet the buddha on the painting, kill him.
Seeing the sequence like this, the fourth seems, oh, anchored to the first. You can see the first image in the last stage still. Seen like this it seems still connected, not an image on its own, which is what I see when standing over it, working on it. As
Continue readingcartoon life: The cat book ebook
An iBooks 2 version of the cat book is now up on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/cat/id499745919?mt=11. Its a free download. Signed print versions are still available. Filed under: art, book, digital, iPad Tagged: art, Cat, cats, digital, illustration, iPad, painting
Continue readingcartoon life: ebook download surges
Phenomenal, is all I have to say. Phenomenal. Honestly, I think this is great. It is far to easy to read this as though I intend irony or sarcasm, but there are people out there in the world who have freely chosen to look at my art. I think that
Continue readingcartoon life: My first iBooks eBook iBooks Author book
Yesterday I downloaded iBooks Author. It kills to spell that in American. While poking about and figuring out the interface and its design sensibilities, I managed to put together a short little ebook of the 20 Landscapes IV images. As carefully as I could I filled out all the fields
Continue readingcartoon life: 8 white paintings
I’ve been engaged in a protracted push, pull, following, yielding, gouging, scraping, sanding, layering since the last post and now these 8 panels are done. All are 24 by 38 inches acrylic on masonite. Filed under: cartoonist, painting Tagged: acrylic, art, landscape, masonite, painting, seascape, water, white, wind
Continue readingcartoon life: 2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 42,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 16
Continue readingcartoon life: Tea mug at black walnut
Drawn first in the new version of Zen Brush, then dropped into Brushes for colour. Filed under: art, digital, drawing, iPad, painting Tagged: brushes, mug, zen brush
Continue readingcartoon life: Calico again
Downloaded AsianPainting. Works on iPad, built for iPhone. You expand it with the 2X button. The constraints of colour choice is demanding. No white. You commit with few undos. Imported into Procreate for some detail work, as AsianPaintings brushes don’t do really tiny fine work, and no backing up to
Continue readingcartoon life: Tuxedo cat on red
Filed under: art, digital, iPad, painting Tagged: art, Cat, painting
Continue readingcartoon life: 66 ThanQs
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23273/66%20ThanQs.pdf will give you a 30 meg download of PDF book of a selected set of Qs for the Jian in London Campaign. https://picasaweb.google.com/107162781169108803437/QsForQCampaign is 74 Q images inspired by contributing to this campaign. Filed under: art, book, digital, London, painting Tagged: creative city, Jian in London
Continue readingcartoon life: Peter Pinocchio
Filed under: caricature, illustration Tagged: caricature, Conservatives, humour, Lies, parliament, Peter Mackay, politics
Continue readingcartoon life: My favourite kitty
Filed under: art, cartoon, digital, drawing Tagged: Cat, hair, shed
Continue readingcartoon life: A queue of Qs in London
Some folks have started a media and Twitter campaign to bring the CBC show Q, and radio host Jian Gomeshi to London to do a broadcast. I thought I would make a bunch of Qs on my iPad and post them to the #jianinldnont twitter stream. I had intended that
Continue readingcartoon life: The landscape exhibition #20
A silk road Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
Continue readingcartoon life: The landscape exhibition #19
Sunset Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
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