I made this Free Cece poster to hang up around the city, if you'd like to put some up too you can download the original (letter) size by clicking on the image. For more information about Cece Macdonald's case visit: Support Cece!

I stand with Cece!

From the sketchbook, two guys in pencil:

I've been making a mask for the last couple of days. It's a very ambiguous animal.

Scenes from a sketchbook:

More paintering from this evening:

And a close up of the eye, for anyone interested:

WHERE ARE YOU THIS WEEKEND?!

From the sketchbook: a jellyfish experiment.

More exciting experiments with texture.

From the sketchbook:

A sketch from today, just playing around

Bad Mood

I just found this doodle of myself that I must have drawn when I was feeling grumpy.

Speed painting study of George W. Lambert's Ballet Dancer in Costume:

Painting/texture study. I really like trying to get handmade textures into painting. I also really like throwing in really opaque, crisp edged lines in there, it ruins the believability in a really nice way.

Siblings

I painted this while listening to a cbc Ideas episode called Delusion of gender:
In 1797, the English clergyman Thomas Gisborne wrote a popular book called, An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex. It outlined the different mental abilities of men and women and was a Victorian best-seller. Today many scientists believe there is a male and female brain. Australian academic psychologist Cordelia Fine begs to differ. She has written several books about brain development and the science of sex differences.

Edit: Thought I'd post a little bit of progress, it's crazy how much a few lines around the mouth can fix it up. At first I was like 'man that is not my mouth at all' but I shifted the shadows around a bit and VOILA! Now he could be my distant cousin, har har. I think the dark background is helping. I'm trying to be really bold with that exciting orange flesh colour, it's a colour I'd normally stay away from because it's very bold.

Trying to get that blue/orange relationship going here, too. Colour relationship are very mysterious to me. Anything colour related that is working in this painting I feel I owe to three of many amazing OCAD instructors: Gillian Isles, Harvey Chan and Robert Berger, all three fantastic artists and teachers.

First Pass:

From tonight. This isn't finished because I'm late to watch Game of Thrones - PRIORITIES, PEOPLE!

More painty fun - also a pug!!!