tree

An old friend contacted me about doing this for her wedding. Instead of signing a guestbook guests will sign paper leaves which will be glued onto the painting, and then podged.
Acrylic on stretched canvases, approx 5'x 7' total

bighorn sheep

rocky mountain bighorn sheep. Some quick designs drawn in col erase and graphite, just for fun. Might do some more pages like this.

life drawing winter 2011/12

Went on a bit of a life drawing binge this month.
Drawn in conte.

sketch dump winter 2011/12

Oh brush pen, how I have missed you..

Various doodles and such from this winter. Some of the more lifedrawing-like ones drawn using this. (Otherwise made up, drawn from life, or cafe sketching on the go train.)
Materials: coloured pencil, graphite, marker, ink

something's different about grandma...

drawn and painted in Adobe photoshop cs5
for a monthly art challenge at work

female knight

drawn in graphite, painted in photoshop CS5. Just for fun.

basically drew a pretty horse and wanted a rider to go with it.

Factoids:
Female knights did exist in many parts of Europe, they were called "dames" instead.
The term chivalry originally had nothing to do with being polite. It refers to horsemanship.

windmill

Wanted a little practice with layout, so here's a windmill on a rock.

drawn in graphite, shaded in photoshop CS5.

life drawing

I attended the occasional open life drawing class this fall in Toronto. Here's a few drawings from that:

conte

pastel

conte

marker and pastel

conte

flower paintings

These were both painted as Christmas gifts for my mom. Both are acrylic on canvas, 16"x20" It was interesting to go back to acrylic after painting digitally for so long. Happy new year everyone!

Winter Wonderland

Happy holidays everyone, have a good one!

done for an art challenge at work themed "winter wonderland"
character line art done in illustrator, characters and backgrounds painted in adobe photoshop cs5.

Royal Winter fair 2011

 So this year I find myself living right by Toronto's Exhibition Place, so when the Royal Winter fair came around I had no excuse not to come by and draw some critters.

Conte, marker, ink, pencil, and gouache, some toning was done digitally.

Digital doodles

Coming soon: Royal winter Fair stuff. Until then here's some digital doodles:

Painted in the summertime in photoshop cs5 using http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/animalanatomy.php

Profile pic

I made an updated profile pic today, actual avatar is pretty small so here's a closer look:

Drawn/painted in Adobe Illustrator CS5.

Holland

So in September I spent a week in Holland with my mom, here's some drawings and paintings from my trip.

people at the airport

Some various birds from my tante Maria's farm.

waiting for dinner at a bistro. -ink

added some colour with photoshop

there was a hobo playing the accordian, he made my day. -Marker

doodle from the planeride home, cleaned up in photoshop

on the Go train

I love riding the train, simply because its an excuse to sit around and draw people..

and also a doggie sketch I added colour to this morning..

24 hour film

So this was a 24 hour film, done as part of MANIMATE- A 24 hour film fest. Thanks to Ashlyn Anstee for hosting this event. The theme of this fest was "coveted"



The character, gun and table were all found online. The animation, effects and background were all done by me. Animated in Maya, background painted in Adobe Photoshop CS5, composited in after effects.

Sound effects courtesy of soundbible.com
Manimate website: http://www.ashlyna.com/manimate/

Flash GIFs

So these guys were created for the kids page of a mold and bacteria laboratory. You can see all the bugs under "kids corner" here Each of these represents a type of mold, bacteria or virus.

Designed, built and animated by me using Adobe flash CS5.

sketchbook dump

So this week I did a bit of scanning, these are some sketches from school this year, mostly doodles and charicatures from class.

Flipbook!

(Regarding the old lady and dog)
"Was this an original concept piece for your film?"
"No, that was from Mythology class yesterday."

wow this feels like so long ago.. Anyways these were my pages for this year's flipbook at Sheridan.




Somehow I still squeezed in time for some life drawing.. A closer look since I like this fella..

Blind Luck

Well its been a pretty long 8 months, but here's the final product, my fourth year film at Sheridan. Enjoy!

Blind Luck from diane aarts on Vimeo.