Ok, ok, its been awhile, but this summer was really bad for super art producing. I won’t get into details but my time was eaten up by summer classes, work, moving to a new apartment (finally in Toronto!), and battling a nasty sickness for practically 4 weeks. I don’t remember ever having such a busy summer without actually doing any illustration or design work for myself. I now have about two weeks before I go back to school, so I’m trying to do one really nice looking illustration zine, and I actually have a few ideas for some paintings (those who know me know that I don’t really like painting so this is mind blowing for me). I’m just a bit worried that I will get distracted by new episodes of Futurama and True Blood. But I’m trying to stay on track. I already registered for Canzine and I have 3 sweet prints that I will be selling. Here are some process photos of one of them:

Sugar Skull Screen Print Process Photos

Sugar Skull Screen Print Process Photos

My screen waiting to get inked.

Yup thats my Sugar Skull print. I just need to finish applying the 3rd colour and its going to be ready to go. I printed them on Stonehenge paper and they look really nice. I have 2 more other prints that will be ready for sale come October, but this is all you get. I did these prints while taking a great course at Open Studio. The instructor was Shannon Gerrard who is just the most awesome person ever. Check out her website for neat stuff! By the way, I’m also going to have some sweet sticker and button designs this year so keep your eyes peeled!

Also, Florence + the Machine did a really nice cover of Roger Palmer’s Addicted to Love. So good.

I’ve posted new illustrations that I have done for my classes this semester. I’m also going to add a design category because I think that my graphic design pieces are equally strong. I originally was going to do a whole separate site for them, but it doesn’t really make sense to do that.

Recently I’ve been listening to this crazy South African group called Die Antwoord. I don’t know if they’re putting on an act, or if they really are the way they are, but its awesome I hope they come to Toronto sometime soon. Here’s Wat Pomp ft. Jack Parrow:

It was really good for me to go, because as much as I love being in Toronto, I really needed to breakaway for a bit. I did a lot of cool things there, including going to the Freedom Tunnel, which is a train tunnel where some graffiti artists do there thing. It was a great thing to see and even though we didn’t get to go right the end of the tunnel (we heard angry voices coming from the distance and we didn’t want to risk anything) it was still very inspiring to see some of the awesome works on the walls. Here is some of the graffiti adorning the tunnel:

It was really neat, next time I’m in NYC I know that I’m going there again. Maybe I’ll put something on the walls myself and become a part of it.

After I came back I had over 600 images of inspiration from the city that never sleeps and I realized I need to push myself further. So basically, I am trying to commit to actually do things instead of thinking about them or just doing half assed sketches. I’m going to try to update this thing with sketches, drawings, illustrations, inspirations and things that in my life that I find interesting. A couple days ago I realized how lucky I am to have a super cool group of friends that run around with me exploring abandoned places or doing weird things. Its nice. On that note, I’m ending this post with a cool Irish band called Fight like Apes and their song ‘Tie me up in Jackets”: