I'm totally jazzed to be a featured artist on Steel Bananas this month - thank you, banana gang!

Here are some more bananas for you and here is an article about Steel bananas on the Torontonist entitled This Shit is Steel Bananas

Rube Goldberg Machine: a deliberately over engineered machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction.

a little drawing from today that i rather liked

a sketch i'm working on turning into a big ink drawing, even as i procrastinate by posting it

This is a piece inspired by a Radiolab podcast about Memory (and forgetting). The main idea presented in the episode is that our memories don't exist in our heads in some kind of memory bank, they're actually created (and altered) on the spot every time we "remember" them. Because we base our sense of selves on these stories we're actually creating our identities as we go. Crazy! Listen here.



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this one is actually not kaley

was working on this at life drawing but ran out of time.

not for commercial use, just for fun.

an experiment

i'm doing a lot of painting recently. these studies both went in unintentional but pleasing directions.

rockwell



salen



i especially like this last one, almost paint by numbers-y

pictures are like tiny slices of time

practice practice practice

these are some pencils for an assignment. there will also be 2 children in it and possibly a lil something-something in the background, but i'm drawing them separately. the idea is to ink the pieces and then assemble them in photoshop and then, ya know, colourize them and whatnot.

oo scanned!

I'm trying to learn more about colour, been mixing colours from one side of the wheel to the other and stuff like that. Anyway! I just found this bibliodyssey post about The History of Colour. The whole colour/physics thing is... beyond me, but the charts sure are interesting to look at.

you know how i listen to this american life and cbc almost religiously? well i might have found something i like even more (i know!): radio lab.

a girl in class. i was trying not to overdraw the glasses. i like how faces are coming along, i'm getting better at indicating things rather than overwhelming the space with extra lines. i was thinking the other day about how drawing is like writing in that you want to "show" instead of "tell".

also, she does have legs, she just kept moving them. and from here on out im going to make more of an effort to draw people sitting on things.

this was for kaley



another alien landing. this is a common kaley theme.

and here's a nice scrap



i found a set of encyclopedia's from the 70s, i took O, Q, S, T.

one sketchbook page from tonight. i've noticed that i dont draw different types of people very often, got to remedy that.

all ref'd from the newspaper



also trying different types of drawing. my art prof is always talking about "soft edges" and "blurred edges" and "disappearing edges" so there's some of that around too.