Drawing Exhibition

I'm very excited to report that my Flying Fish piece was accepted into the Federation of Canadian Artists Open International Drawing Exhibition. The show runs June 12-24, 2012 at the Federation Gallery on Granville Island. If your on the Island, come check it out.

Flying Fish
pencil, pen, watercolour, gouache on paper (7.63" x 9.13")

Tiger Duck vs Hydra Mock Up

Mock up with 'native' vegetation.

Tiger-Duck Try Outs Begin

Tiger-Duck Try Out #1

Tiger-Duck Try Out #2

I'm leaning towards the second one. 

Related posts here: Tiger-Duck vs Hydra and

here: Drawing From Life, Tiger-Duck Inspiration 

In progress.... Flying Fish



work in progress (pen, watercolour, gouache)



Flying Fish inspired by a remote controlled nemo fish. A continuation of the following post: Flying Fish Indoors No Joke.

Guo Fengyi at the Contemporary Art Gallery

This weekend I was captivated by the large scale, intricate, and mystical drawings of self taught artist Guo Fengyi showing at the Contemporary Art Gallery until April 15, 2012. Her work is described as "mark-making". There is something very satisfying about this idea of making marks. I found myself drawn to the colourful strokes of ink and the faces upon faces in her images. I will definitely be going back for another viewing. 

]

Guo Fengyi at work (photo courtesy of http://www.leregional.ch/N32701/je-peins-pour-savoir.html)

Excerpt from the Contemporary Art Gallery Bulletin:

Guo Fengyi began drawing after illness brought her to the healing 

practice of Qi-qong (a traditional Chinese health practice as a 

means to cultivate qi energy within the body). Combined with her 

study of theories of mysticism, she began having visions when in 

these meditative states which she felt compelled to translate into 

drawing. Guo’s subject matter encompasses these traditional 

concepts of thought with Chinese philosophy, myths, cosmology, 

acupuncture energy maps, divination and dynastic sites — all 

systems which are fast disappearing in a modernizing China. Her 

works are charged in every sense, bringing together notions of 

creativity as acts of everyday life. Redolent of fields of energy and 

magnetic auras, drawings manifest as suggestions of the human 

form, otherworldly beings and internal body parts, mapped 

against diagrammatic evocations of invisible worlds surrounding 

and influencing our existence

Tiger-Duck vs Hydra

Who's your money on? 

Fair Nostalgia

In the midst of heavy winter rain I'm dreaming of the summer fair. Lynden Fair is my favourite. 

Fair Food: cotton candy, lemonade, ice cream, corn dog