This is a by-product of photoshop and some digital photos I took this past week. Landscapes will never get old for me, especially when there’s blue sky  as a back drop. I could hardly contain myself on this road trip to Saskatchewan. It’s been a long time since I’ve simply stared at nature for hours at a time. Of course, no replica can contain all the glory of the original and that is why I chose to have the text interrupt and block some of the imagery.

This isn’t the best picture, but here’s a little glimpse into an upcoming project I’m working on. There will be two illustrations, both for a writing/creative conference in Kelowna, BC in August. The first one will read ” The Pursuit: Women in the Woods” though I’m still working out the details on typography and such. Stay tuned for the finished work!

This design I made for the Vancouver Ironclad Art competition has been chosen for the final exhibition. It’s based on a photo I took in Chinatown near my studio, on a typical rainy Vancouver day.

The idea behind the competition was to use public art to decorate the sewer manhole covers in Vancouver and to distinguish between the storm and sanitary sewers. However, I submitted this design as a possibility for both sewer systems. It will be on display, along with the other submissions, at the Interurban Gallery on East Hastings from May 28th- June 8th. Winners and Honorable Mentions will be announced on June 10th. If you would like to vote for my design for the People’s Choice Award click on this link: http://www.ironcladart.ca/view/?ID=692. 

I was incredibly busy the week I submitted the design, and would have loved to spend more time on it. So, it’s a pleasant surprise that it was still chosen to be in the exhibition. There were many wonderful designs, and I would encourage you to look through them and vote for others as well.

So I’ve been told that this story isn’t as funny on paper as it was in person. But, I have to draw something about it anyway.

Two evenings ago my husband and I were sitting at our kitchen table eating dinner, when we saw through the window a young boy come bolting down the sidewalk with a cardboard box on his head. I have no idea where he came from, or where he was going (hopefully he knew where he was going!), but it looked hilarious and made my day.

Maybe he was merely on a casual run on a sunny day and the cardboard box served as his hat to protect him from the heat? Let’s hope this is the case.

I’ve decided to make a 10 minute sketch in his honor, in the hopes that someone else might find this as funny as I did 🙂

In this week’s sketch of “flying penguin”, we find our penguin posed elegantly up high in the sky.

Wait a minute. What’s that long neck below him?

Busted!