doorway1, originally uploaded by senor diecast.

Just a recent photo I took while at home. I love the various wood textures and the old architecture of our place.
And I really dig light and shadow.

I’m very much an amateur photographeur, but I do dig a few of the shots I was able to get away with last night. Maybe someday someone will buy me one of those big fancy cameras that grant instant photographic skill (or just photographic snobbishness).

…as the world turns.

Lots more happening in July as well. Check the Brantford Arts Block site for all the details. The facebook group link may have more events as well. (Pencil poster by Tim Southern — he has skills with a nib)

Tags: arts, brantford, sketchcrawl, downtown, july, events

I’m sad I missed this event on the weekend. David Hind brought his “things” and there erupted under tarps amidst rain and sun a drumming sound. Of course, I can only imagine the power of said drums since I wasn’t there… but you can imagine it, I’m sure.

Brantford Arts Block is killing it this year, helping to make the downtown a bright, and energized place for any and all.

Here is a video of Dave doing his thing, with musical accompaniment by Train…

Compelling and Poignant Moments From the Daily Life of Lois

I love the drawing style too. Wonderful, expressive body postures and expressions. Reminds me of so much of art school days. More of Lois’s work can be found here.

Tags: art, illustration

Tags: art, illustration, magazine, issuu

Got pointed to this great tool for visualizing publications online. issuu has an incredibly simple and quick process to upload your content and there seems to be a great base of creativity already on the site.

I uploaded this to test it. It is a collaborative online arts mag that I contributed to a couple years ago. Give them pages a turn!

Tags: arts, community

The sketches continue at ExtraLife’s flickr stream. He is a fantastic cartoonist.

Blogged with Flock

Blogged with Flock

Tags: arting

So I’ve been consumed with very technical tasks such as data entry, editing, text layout, orderforms and html over the last few weeks. During this time I was also responsible for a few scattered creative projects (all these projects are creative in some regard, but that said, there is still a distinction to be made) that now have either passed their expected due date or have been passed on to outside design houses. Why did this happen? I can assure you, not because I am not able to create the lovely pieces, but because I can’t start them! I am finding it impossible to switch my brain between the two worlds. I’ve tried to work on one creative piece over and over and it keeps looking like a spreadsheet or something!

So, today, I delivered an ultimatum to myself. Well, I delivered a few… One, I will go home at 6pm. No buts. Two, I will only work on creative projects and keep the printer going. Guess what! The pressure seems to be off! I’m nearing completion of the creative piece. All morning I poured myself into it. I allowed myself to drift around, to experiment, to undo, undo, undo… and I’m now getting somewhere!

I should have the piece done tomorrow, but I will not go back to orderforms until it is in the can. I can not go back and forth. It really drastically affects my creative output. It makes me feel bad about the process too… When doing an orderform you just keep moving. More and more fills the page. But with a creative project there are many points where a once colourful page gets erased and you start over and start over and start over. When in techno-mode I start to believe that maybe I’m failing when actually, it is just part of the process… but it is so easy to forget.

So, my tea is yummy, my artwork is pretty, and there are only 2 hours left in the workday! I feel a bit more successful.