Jack in the Green

Studio Tour 2014

Come out to downtown Waterloo this weekend for some great art and good times! Lots of original art for sale. Hope to see you there!

Preludes and Nocturnes

The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes
comic review

A book review in comic form...this is one of Neill Gaiman's The Samdman volume 1: Preludes and Nocturnes. The drawing style is very much inspired by Alan E Cober, a fantastic artist/illustrator but also by the feeling evoked in the book.

Seen and Seen Again

acrylic on canvas, 2014

    The focus of tourist photos is generally on those aspects of a place that are deemed worthy of tourism; a monument, place or object becomes depicted over multiple times with the composites within this space creating the difference, these images are shared through digital media and repeated, copied and reproduced.

    Working from digitally layered images, I want to translate “tourist” images of multiple sources into a single image through a painting. Referencing the article “In Defense of the Poor Image” by Hito Steyerl, I’m interested in the concept of image sharing as a way to retrieve the power of the image and to equalize the separate classes–poor images are “images that can be made and seen by the many.” Using some of my own travel photos in combination with those found on the internet, I create an image that coalesces separate times, perspectives and sources into a single image, unified through the painted medium.

Reading Material

Someone told me today, "I'm kind of between books right now." I'm not entirely sure what that means so here's some of what I've been reading lately. Details after the jump...

Inspired by: Alan E. Cober

Illustration from The Dark is Rising

Lately I have been working more in pen & ink, sketching and doodling than in painting and Alan E. Cober is one of those artists who I've been looking to for inspiration in terms of the many possibilities open to the medium. I was introduced to him through his fantastic illustrations for Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising, but his creations extend far beyond his work for books (he also illustrated Beowulf). His unique style bridges the enforced gaps that occurred between fine art and illustration and he was an advocate for the acceptance of these new values in illustration. Much more detail can be read on him at the society of illustrators page.

And Where Now?

"And Where Now?" oil on canvas, 2014

GradEx

Ontario College of Art and Design annual Grad Exhibition–lots of fantastic art to experience! From Thursday 6.30pm ending on Sunday at 5pm. I will be participating in the show, hope to see you there!

End of the Line

Final thesis critique display.