“In a couple of words, the picture book Cat: Some Variations on a Beast is a whimsical treat.” Dan Brown, The London Free Press
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Art Threat: Happy Birthday Nietzche & Foucault!
There’s only a little to say about this – Michel Foucault was born October 15, 1926, and by weird coincidence, Friedrich Nietzsche was born on the same day 82 years earlier- October 15, 1844. Big thinkers in the canon of Dead White Men. So what, you might be asking — and what does that have […]
Continue readingcartoon life: The cat book in print
The Cat book has arrived! October 3, 2011. Each book is $20.00 plus the requisite shipping and handling. In Canada that is $2.25, to the United States; $3.85, International; $7.45. You can make deposits to my Paypal account. See The Cat Book page. Filed under: art, book, digital, good stuff, illustration Tagged: art, book, Cat, cats, […]
cartoon life: Buddha painting in progress III
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Continue readingcartoon life: My Cat Book
cat is available as a free PDF download
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cartoon life: Buddha painting in progress
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Continue readingCo2 Art: "One Random Year" Artist’s Video Shows Snippets of Life
Montreal visual artist Bettina Forget is working on an art project in which she videos a random minute each day for a year.
The videos will be edited into a 6-hour film, which will be shown at Visual Voice Gallery (in the Belgo) in Montreal in 2012….
Continue readingArt Threat: Art exhibit seeks to foster dialogue on 9/11 – September 11 — Past, Present, Future features work of 16 artists
Curated by Andrea Arrovo, “September 11 — Past, Present, Future” features work from 16 artists across the globe.
Continue readingcartoon life: cartoon life 2011-09-10 18:49:49
I just put up a ton of cat pics at my http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougsamu/ Flikr page. Filed under: art Tagged: art, illustration
cartoon life: Calico cat Ukiyoe
Here is another from Ukiyoe. The light grey wash was applied in Brushes.
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cartoon life: Mug with broken handle
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Continue readingcartoon life: Is there interest in a cat book?
At a recent prompting, that being an inquiry about sales, I fell into the book making portion of iPhoto. As such, I put together a few books of things. One of these would be a collection of some of the various cat drawings I have done on my iPod and iPad in the various paint […]
cartoon life: Zen Artist – title:2 September, 2011 4:43:32 PM
Just downloaded yet another iPad painting app.
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cartoon life: an image in progress
From blog pics
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Continue readingRob Maguire: 3 tips the Jazz Festival taught me about Twitter
Having returned from vacation, I’m spending more time digging through data from this year’s Saskatchewan Jazz Festival, and reflecting upon what lessons I can glean from my marketing campaign. Besides the introduction of our iPhone and Android app, one of the most interesting changes this year was the amount of
Continue readingcartoon life: More tips
I stumbled on this somewhere around the fourth of August, and posted it to G+. In light of stumbling on John Baldasari’s Tips for Artists, I thought it was worthwhile reposting here: Wil Wheaton originally shared this post: This is Ira Glass talking to creative people about getting past The Gap. Every single creative person I’ve […]
cartoon life: Blue box on Maitland street
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Continue readingcartoon life: Tips for artists
http://fromyourdesks.com/2010/09/24/john-baldessari/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldessari
Google Image search
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Things Are Good: Good Bikes on the Streets of Toronto
The Good Bike project is bringing colour to the streets of Toronto. Bright neon bicycles are celebrating aspects of Toronto, they really are eye-catching.
Over the past few weeks, more than 30 brightly painted bicycles, a few featuring baskets of potted plants, have popped up all over the city—orange at Queen and Dovercourt, blue at Dundas […]
cartoon life: Six sixteen by twenty
The six paintings are done, except for the tedious last glaze layer and painting the edges.
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