Shawn made this ship in bottle for a silent auction to benefit OMS Montessori. Ikea came out with a lovely series of hand blown bottles which look beautiful with ships in them, and this is a great example. Hand carved, painted, and rigged, using mostly found materials.
Shawn finished up the brixham trawler earlier this week and delivered it to its new owner :) Here are a few shots of the completed project.
Shawn and I will be participating in the Joy! 2014 OVCC Artisans @ Archives Christmas Art & Craft Extravaganza on November 22-23, 2014 at Library & Archives Canada (395 Wellington St. in Ottawa). It will be a unique melange of traditional, steampunk and geek – all served up with a cup of good …
Our booth at the 613 Night Market on the weekend generated a lot of interest in Shawn’s boats, along with a couple of commissioned pieces. The first is a custom Brixham Trawler, who’s hull and rigging are now complete. Here are a couple of progress shots before painting. The ship …
This summer I started a series of marine-themed watercolour illustrations (to compliment Shawn’s boats). The plan is to paint one creature per letter of the alphabet… wish me luck! Here are the first four, all approximately 9×6″ on 140lb cold pressed watercolour paper. Anenome Blowfish Crab Dartfish
This summer I started playing with watercolours and began a series of sugar skull illustrations. I’ve only used watercolours a couple of times before, but they’re great with Vi around – some paper, paint palette, brushes and a glass of water; minimal supplies and quick cleanup. Perfect with a toddler …
Well hello there! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Lots has changed around here in the last year and a half. For one, we have a little girl (who is turning one next week!) – you can blame her for my absence ;) Parenthood has been an interesting adventure. I …
This is 11×15″, acrylics and ink on illustration board. I scanned it using our photocopier at work, so the colours are a bit wonky, despite my best efforts, and it also makes the colour gradients blocky. I would like to print a few nice copies of it, which got me …
I cracked out my (exceptionally rusty) Illustrator skills this week to work on a logo for my friend Wendy’s new blog, The Dane Dame. Considering my Illustrator training is about 12 years old now (and I pretty much haven’t used the pen tool since), I am pretty pleased with the …
