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“Visit Edmonton” poster prints available for purchase
Just in time for Christmas, I’m now accepting pre-orders for “Visit Edmonton” poster prints!
Prints will be available early next week. If you’d like one, fill out the pre-order form, and I’ll contact you with further info.
Prints are 11″ x 17″ on high-quality 80lb Cougar Opaque Natural cover stock (a heavier, more durable stock of paper with a slight beige tone).
Limited run of 25 prints, signed and numbered by the artist.
Price: $25 per print.
Please note: If you live in Edmonton (or will be in Edmonton during the holidays), I can deliver the poster to you in person. If you are outside of Edmonton, additional shipping charges will apply, depending on how far you live from Edmonton. I’m willing to split the shipping cost, so please note this in the pre-order form, and I’ll contact you to arrange shipping.
Previously: Visit Edmonton today!
A dream
I had a terrifying dream last night. Usually, my dreams are surreal and wacky, but I don’t remember the last time I was truly terrified in my sleep.
I was looking at a promotional website for some new horror movie. I think it was a sequel to The Ring. The photo gallery was a series of promotional studio shots. All of them were shot in a small warehouse or large cabin that was completely open and empty. A single wooden chair was in the middle of the room, shot at a wide angle. The first shot was an empty chair. Every other shot was a character from the film, sitting perfectly still, staring straight ahead, motionless. In one shot, I noticed something in the window in the background. Thinking this must be some sort of easter egg or hidden game on the site, I clicked it, and the screen zoomed in. Through the window was a room identical to the last, with a nondescript figure sitting in an identical chair. He was very tall, almost Slenderman-like. I zoomed in further to find that it was a grey-skinned, featureless, emaciated humanoid. He had no mouth, only the hint of the shape of a nose, and slits for eyes.
I zoomed in further, and found myself in a trance-like state, quickly losing control of my own body. I felt that something was wrong and wanted to pull back, but was drawn in. Face to face with this creature, its eye slits suddenly burst open, exposing two massive, silver glowing hypnotic spheres. I couldn’t look away, but staring into those empty eyes, I could feel my soul being ripped from my body.
This was the last thing I saw before I woke up screaming.
Midweek Sketch Dump: December 5, 2011
I’ve been doodling animals in my spare time.
Thing-a-Week 49: Dapper Dinos
I’ve started going to the Art Gallery of Alberta’s weekly drop-in art workshops. Over a two-hour course, they introduce you to a certain medium, demonstrate some techniques, and then set you loose to explore and create your own brand of art with them. It’s a great opportunity to work with new materials and share your work with fellow artists.
This week, we created some mixed media Artist Trading Cards. What better chance to use my trademark dinosaurs? These are done with a combination of india ink, watercolour pencil, and patterned collage paper for the bow ties.
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Thing-a-Week 48: Insert Deer pun here
I spent the weekend on a much-needed getaway in the mountains. Amongst the premature holiday cheer, this afforded me some extra time to do some more life drawing. This handsome fellow is the result:
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Thing-a-Week 47: Occupy something or other
If you try hard enough, I’m sure you can pull out some kind of metaphor for the Occupy movement from this. Don’t read into it too deeply. Today, I just felt like drawing the saddest thing.
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Thing-a-Week 46: Austerity-Bot
Have you been to The Charrette? It’s a blog run by Mike Otto and Scott Lilwall, a couple of Edmontonians and very good friends of mine, all about our city’s municipal design and planning. A niche market, for sure, but if you’re the type who spends hours toiling away at your virtual ledgers in Sim City and have an opinion on Edmonton’s arena project, public transit, neighbourhood revitalization, or any number of civic topics, The Charrette is Edmonton’s number one source.
Last week, Mike made a post about the city’s proposed cuts for the upcoming annual budget, and asked me to illustrate it. The concept was that the city has employed an angry, heartless robot to boil down all of Edmonton’s luxuries in favour of total austerity. Thus was born Austerity-Bot. You can see him here, but to get the full effect, go read the post itself and see what sorts of crazy jargon he’s spewing today!
As an added bonus, here’s a whole pile of doodles I’ve been working on over the past week.
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Thing-a-Week 45: SQUIRREL DRUGS
If I’m being honest, I’ve been in another art slump in the post-Halloween fallout. Who knew that expending a month’s worth of creative energy on prop-making, while de-prioritizing drawing would make it tough to get back into drawing?
But this isn’t another excuse-filled Thing-a-Week post. Have some squirrel drugs!
Caitlin’s been doing more digital work this week, and is making a serious effort to catch up on the posts she missed while galavanting in Europe. Go check ‘em out!
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For what it’s worth, even though I kept forgetting to actually post this week’s Thing, the projects themselves were done by the weekend.
You might have noticed that the volume of art I’ve been posting lately has taken a drastic drop. I anticipated this, however, at the outset of the project, considering that every October, my creative outlets become completely consumed by Halloween prop-making. It’s a different medium, but it keeps me creating nonstop nonetheless. This year’s party, a Retro-B-movie/Mad-Science theme, presented plenty of opportunity for campy props and decor…
The lab console, which controls the giant death ray (not pictured)
SCIENCE!
What would Atomic-Era sci-fi be without a Fallout shelter?
The mad scientist himself, after undergoing a drastic makeover
Now that Halloween’s over, here’s hoping that I’ll get back to my regularly scheduled doodling by next week.
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