Our only full day in Paris was mostly wonderful and a bit frustrating. We started the day with a small breakfast in a cafe, as we like to do in Europe, as opposed to eating at the hotel. Watching local people come and go, I remembered how locals always stand
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cartoon life: Cat and Moon
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Continue readingcartoon life: Cat on a wire
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, pen and ink app, spirit, Tenuous, wind, wire
Continue readingcartoon life: Cat hears a can-opener
What was the cat thinking? That was hard. That casually drawn, too large left ear needed an ‘explanation’. And thanks to Delft for pointing the missing essentials! Whew. Filed under: art Tagged: can-opener, Cat, ear, hear
Continue readingcartoon life: Cat Stickland-ized
Throw together more drawing, some Popsicolor textures… Seriously this isn’t done yet. I’ve taken a few days to think about the character, the expression… Something is coming to complete this. Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, Paul Stickland, procreate
Continue readingcartoon life: A cat for ASketch proceeding
Dropped into Procreate for some colour. The charcoal tools do a great job here. Filed under: art Tagged: ASketch, Cat, procreate
Continue readingcartoon life: A cat from ASketch
ASketch is a funny app. I mean a bit odd actually. I really am not too fond of the twisty tool controls. Sometimes things can be stripped too bare to ‘essentials’, a too spare interface for simplicity. And sometimes reinventing things that work perfectly well and as expected just isn’t
Continue readingezra winton: Trading songs for socks – Has Indiegogo become colonized by capital?
Remember when crowd funding was a baby? It was an innocent but fierce little phenomenon that you would feed, along with a whole community, and lo and behold, a project would be raised, big and strong ready to tackle the world. Amazing things like literacy projects, art therapy, and independent
Continue readingsamupress: 20 Monsters
20 Monsters is a collection of fanciful cartoon monsters and accompanying doggerel. The free ebook 20 Monsters is available on the iTunes bookstore. You can review the Monsters as blog posts here.
Continue readingsamupress: 20 Monsters
20 Monsters is a collection of fanciful cartoon monsters and accompanying doggerel. The free ebook 20 Monsters is available on the iTunes bookstore. You can review the Monsters as blog posts here.
Continue readingcartoon life: 20 Monsters
20 Monsters is a collection of fanciful cartoon monsters and accompanying doggerel. The free ebook 20 Monsters is available on the iTunes bookstore. You can review the Monsters as blog posts here. Filed under: art Tagged: 20 Monsters, art, bestiary, doggerel, humor, humour, illustration, iPad, monsters
Continue readingArt Threat: Little girls are better at designing superheroes than you are
“Little girls are better at designing superhoroes than you are” is a part-time project of California based artist Alexandria Law. Of the project she says: “Kids are more impressionable than you, but kids can also be less restricted by cultural gender norms than you. Kids are more creative than you,
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Did Earth Day Not Quite Do It For You This Year?
Some years, Earth Day clicks for people in a profound way. I’ve spoken to a few who were distinctly non-plussed with how things didn’t come together for them and their dreams this year. If you need some optimism for the rest of your week, check out this compendium. Pay attention
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Blade Runner Revisited
“But what can a poor boy do except to sing for a rock and roll band” The Rolling Stones Or maybe just follow your imagination with a camera if music is not your talent. So this is my take on Blade Runner. Or should I say my ultra low budget
Continue readingcartoon life: Lampshade in filter fun
Some more fooling around in Popsicolor. The results are so dramatic. Just don’t know what to do with them with the image is so strong. Playing with a flat colour field yields some interesting textures and abstractions. Filed under: art Tagged: filter, Lampshade, light, Popsicolor
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Hidden City Festival 2013
The Dufala Brothers have been selected to be part of the Hidden City Festival in 2013. Their installation will be at Globe Dye Works, and will feature materials sourced through RAIR. Check out their video! We have the dormant, yet exciting Canada Malt Plant along the Lachine Canal in Montreal
Continue readingcartoon life: The lamp above the couch
Filed under: art Tagged: couch, Lamp, light
Continue readingcartoon life: Chair in optometrist’s waiting room
Experimenting in Paper53 with the fill background. Filed under: art Tagged: chair, waiting
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Untitled (The Woman In Red)
This is a work that came about during my recent consolidation of images past, present, (and future?) . The projection happened in the early 90′s when I was experimenting with arbitrary images I had shot on streets, off television sets and so on, then projecting them on houses, walls, backyards,
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Only art can save us now
The world needs creative interpretations of global issues, not better descriptions of things people are accustomed to. by Santiago Zabala Perhaps rather than God, as Martin Heidegger once said, it is art that can save us. After all, artistic creations have always had political, religious and social meanings that
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