illustrat

Patti Smith taking a selfie in a mirror. The background she was in was all gold so I added some gold-leaf around her.

One of my favourite artists and directors.

Casey the Puppet. This painting captures the essence of a puppet lots of older Canadians will remember. A strange genderless creature with a dog puppet companion. A puppet with an outspoken personality that I remember as a kid wondering how it got away with saying what it did. The painting has a Canadian stamp to commemorate the puppet's roots.

chrysalis ↯ /ˈkrɪs(ə)lɪs/

pencils

Based on a fly agaric mushroom this groovy fungus is shaking out her spores.

A book cover work in progress for my sci fi series that I'm currently working on. Enjoy!

Shori from Fledling by Octavia Butler

The Queer Old Man is a solid wood puppet head created more than 50 years ago if not more. The eyes of the character are a radiant blue and the carved structure of the face is expressive and bold.

Part of my personal project of #1111DaysOfArt, where I explore and create something every day for 1111 days. All of these are from a watercolour instruction book I followed along. It is from a Chinese artist called Zhu Qu.

Acrylic paint

coloured pencils

Another installment in my mushroom headed people series. Based on a mushroom image my friend sent me.

Pencil drawing. Inspired by post-war scene in London, UK.

2nd attempt at a shroom head. I felt a lot of hats from 1950’s fashion actually look like mushroom caps.

This is just an idea I'm playing with after I recently reconnected with an old friend. He's a painter but has this huge passion for mushroom collecting. I have few more ideas for a little series now.

…and the Red Queen is “off with her head!” White Rabbit. Jefferson Airplane

A profile done in pencil. The texture of her hair turned out like ribbons. Suppose that’s what she’s wondering about?

Chalk Pastels. Inspired by reading the book 'What is the What : The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng' by Dave Eggers (2006)

The Soul Harvest The Soul Harvest is done in a surrealistic style and is spiritual in content. This painting illustrates the world as being a field filled with souls from every corner of the earth needing to be saved from eternal death, which is the punishment for sin. But by hearing and understanding and receiving the good news, through faith in Jesus’s death for the sin of man, man can be forgiven and have eternal life with God. The farm tools leaning against the fence are an invitation to those who know Jesus to pick up their God-given talents and go into the world and use them to spread the good news. The inside of the barn, with the wheat sheaths standing up, illustrates the souls that have received eternal life through the work of the believer, and the crown is their reward from God. (October 28, 2017) The Soul Harvest is done in a surrealistic style and is spiritual in content. This painting illustrates the world as being a field filled with souls from every corner of the earth needing to be saved from eternal death, which is the punishment for sin. But by hearing and understanding and receiving the good news, through faith in Jesus’s death for the sin of man, man can be forgiven and have eternal life with God. The farm tools leaning against the fence are an invitation to those who know Jesus to pick up their God-given talents and go into the world and use them to spread the good news. The inside of the barn, with the wheat sheaths standing up, illustrates the souls that have received eternal life through the work of the believer, and the crown is their reward from God. (October 28, 2017)