These goofy drawings seem to come out of fooling about with some new tool in some new app. Test the tool, see what kind of marks it makes, scribble something else on the page and just follow along. I don’t direct them at all. After a while I just trace
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cartoon life: “At Least 22 Cats” book arrives
Seriously? Dude, I’m trying to take a nap here! The newest book arrived today, and it needs to go through numbering and signing of the 20 book limited edition run and mailing a copy to Libraries Canada. I want to save the release for TingFest, approaching fast from from April 17
Continue readingThings Are Good: How Trent University Preserves Canadian Architecture
Like other art forms styles come and go in architecture; and when styles go in architecture it can result in demolition of buildings (and thus history). In Canada university and college campuses sprung up in the 60s to accommodate the influx of baby boomers so the style of these campuses
Continue readingcartoon life: His mind has always been free
So many of the images I’ve seen about the death of Stephen Hawking are basically about the wheelchair, and how now his body is free. I think it’s a bit of low hanging fruit really, compassionate, easy to grasp, literal, christian imagery. I think they all miss a deeper point,
Continue readingcartoon life: Trump and Kim Jong to talk.
It’s the age of Big Hair Diplomacy
Continue readingScripturient: La Bohème at the Galaxy
Starving bohemian artists living in drafty Paris attics in the mid-19th century, struggling to produce their art, falling in and out of love, sharing and suffering, living and dying, all done while singing. That’s La Bohème in a nutshell. I am embarrassed, even ashamed to admit I’ve never been to
Continue readingScripturient: Reading as a forgotten art
Earlier this month (February, 2018), the Globe & Mail published an essay by author Michael Harris titled, “I have forgotten how to read.” In it, he recounted how he recently tried to read a single chapter of a book, but failed. Frustrated, instead turned to TV: Paragraphs swirled; sentences snapped
Continue readingThings Are Good: Let’s Save Brutalism
Saving architecture through Twitter seems a little odd, yet the #SOSBrutalism movement has engendered an appreciation for an architectural style and saving buildings from demolition. Critics of brutalism describe the style as ugly and oppressive despite its rich history and beauty. As a result of the under-appreciation brutalist architecture many
Continue readingcartoon life: My kind of snowblower. Tesla should make these.
Yes, I have been busy with LondOntLife, clearing snow from sidewalks, and neglectful of this blog.
Continue readingcartoon life: How I’m seeing nowadays
Seriously, the head cold and the cough rattle your eyeballs.
Continue readingPostArctica: 3 Quotes
I like common materials, whatever is at hand, but especially stones. I like the idea that stones are what the world is made of. Richard Long …if the villain – who is of course a coward – takes refuge behind the ropes, claiming his right to do so by a
Continue readingPostArctica: Some Sculptors
Subodh Gupta “Subodh Gupta (born in 1964) is an Indian Contemporary artist based in New Delhi. Trained as a painter, he went on to experiment with a variety of media. His work encompasses sculpture, installation, painting, photography, performance and video. He is married to artist Bharti Kher and is represented
Continue readingPostArctica: 3 Post-Photographers
Yang Yongliang is a Chinese artist who uses photography and video to create new versions of landscapes and the city. Website Rune Guneriussen is an artist after my own heart, installing, photographing, and moving on. Website Cristina de Middel (born 1975 in Alicante, Spain) is a
Continue readingcartoon life: ‘Murica…
Filed under: art, cartoon, comment Tagged: America
Continue readingcartoon life: Colour in a black cat
Still looking to find colour in a black cat, when I have the occasion. Filed under: art Tagged: Cat
Continue readingcartoon life: Today’s nap
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Continue readingcartoon life: Settling in for nap
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Continue readingcartoon life: Old man cat reflecting on his childhood
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Continue readingcartoon life: Cat with jacket
I tried a more careful drawing system, knocking in grey tones, and going in both directions. Results look about the same. As a more direct approach. Filed under: art
Continue readingwmtc: our papyrus painting is finally on the wall
You can read the story of how we got these: here. This, below, is the smaller painting that the salesman added to the pot after the price would budge no further. It is possibly painted on banana leaf, a cheaper and less durable papyrus substitute. There is also a third,
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