Franke James made it into the New York Times last week. Andrew Revkin covered the Canadian environmental artist who is fighting back against interference and bullying from the Harper government in Canada’s Approach to Inconvenient Art. Tim Harper at the Toronto Star also covered her story in his recent article
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cartoon 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 readingDeSmogBlog: Andy Revkin Interviews Franke James On Dot Earth: Canada’s Approach To Inconvenient Art
Franke James Banned On The Hill.png Andy Revkin has a great interview with Canadian artist Franke James on his Dot Earth blog at The New York Times. DeSmogBlog previously covered the harrasment and censorship that Franke James says she experienced at the hands of the Harper government, which worked in strangely
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
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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 readingThings Are Good: One Millionth Tower
One Millionth Tower is a new interactive documentary on the hyper-local level focusing on Kipling Ave. in Toronto. It’s a logical follow up to Out my Window (we’ve looked at it before) and explores how participatory urban design can change our highrise urban landscape. The highrise re-imagined. One Millionth Tower
Continue readingcartoon life: My favourite kitty
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Continue readingRusty Idols: The Man Behind the Mask
The author of graphic novel masterpiece V for Vendetta reflects on the strange new life of his creation as a symbol of protest and resistance. It all comes back to Moore – a private man with knotty greying hair and a magnificent beard, who prefers to live without an internet
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
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Sunset Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
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Yellow moon Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
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Cold beach Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
Continue reading350 or bust: Banned On The Hill: Franke James Takes Her Art To Ottawa
We’ve met Franke James, a Canadian visual artist, on 350orbust before. I discuss the Harper government’s interference with a big career opportunity for her, a European art tour, in these posts: Dear Prime Minister Harper: Please Stop Blacklisting Environmental Artists and Scientists and Is The Kremlin Now In Charge? Harper
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Canyon Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
Continue readingcartoon life: The landscape exhibition #15
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Five of Five: Two Canadian Artists
Doris McCarthy was a Calgary born visual artist and author, but spent most of her life in Scarborough Ontario. She had a bit of a thing for icebergs, which is fine by me because I love northern landscape art. Pictured below, Iceberg Fantasy #40.
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Continue readingcartoon life: The landscape exhibition #14
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cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #13
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