Vintage Olympic Hockey Jersey's

Here are some desktop images of vintage olympic hockey jerseys. I was asked to do the illustrations for a poster that The Beaver was going to produce but it was cut for financial reasons. Same thing with the beer coasters we were going to put these on. Finally the idea of free online desktops was put on the table. Not quite as satisfying as a physical product to hold. But it is pretty cool to think people all over the country may have my desktop on their computer during the Winter Olympics.
The jersey's were produced in Adobe Illustrator, I then imported them into Photoshop to blend them with the background and then back into Illustrator to work with the type.

Sheeeesh!

If you are interested in the desktops you can download them from thebeaver.ca look for them under the heading More of a good thing...

Climate Change

Great post on climate change from E. Sawyer financial today. It gives you all the links you need to start moving towards an informed decision. There are links to extremist climate change supporters and extremist ostriches with their heads in the sand. You can probably tell whom I support. I'll let you know it's not the fellas and gals pumping shit into the atmosphere and fucking with my cross country skiing season.

All kidding aside Please read the post it is very balanced and well written.

If you are too busy checking your emails on your blackberry or iphone here is

video scary "truth",

here is video "rich industrialist telling you not to worry",

here is a petition,

and here is David Suzuki's solution to getting the government to listen.

Peace out

Where The Wild Thing Is

Hey everyone!

Been a while, but as all of you parent know having babies is time consuming. This is a little doodle I did months ago and I just scanned it in and painted it in photoshop.
Work and being a father has taken priority over many other things in life right now. My apologies to anyone who has noticed my absence. Nothing personal I just have a ton of stuff to sort out. I still have stuff to scan and post I will try to get on that and I will try to post a little more regularly. Broken record you say? Well maybe but I'm going to try extra hard this time.

Mail Me Art 2: Received!

Here an accurate shot of the art piece I did for Mail Me Art 2. As you can see the colours are far more vibrant. My artwork was received and is up on the MMA2 website. I will not know for some time whether I will be included in the next book. It was a great pleasure to be in the first one. I actually came across a copy the other day in McNally Robinson's, it has sold since. I will endeavor to get some more work up soon. it is hard to get drawing and painting done with a 4 week old. Well until next time, fight the good fight everybody.

Teaching Canada's History

This is the first project I completed for Canada's History society. I worked with the Editor Joel Ralph and the Editor of The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine Mark Reid.
It was a lot of hard work but we produced Teaching Canada's History in English and French. Not only did we produce it bilingually but we made an interactive version to be viewed on the web. Please click on the image to launch the web reader. Inside you will find many articles how to effectively teach history, and how to use up-to-date technology do it.

The Crown Royals Poster Elements

Here are some of the inked sketches of the elements for The Crown Royals poster. each one was scanned in and traced in Adobe Illustrator. They were then placed in Photoshop rasterized and coloured. I will be snapping a few shots of the conceptual work I did prior to choosing these specific elements.

The Crown Royals

This is a poster I did for the upcoming Soap Scum Presents improv show. I had a lot of fun making it. This has to be one of the most detailed peices I've done it has a lot to it and I'm proud to say I have tons of process material to scan in and show to you all.

I would like to give a big shout out to everybody in Germany who checks my stuff out. I'm very appreciative of your attention.

More to come.