Gagarin re-modeled.

Yuri Gagarin

I was reading a little about Yuri Gagarin's achievements today, it was featured due to the anniversary of the first manned space flight. I find the whole Space Race era quite fascinating, it's almost the light side to the cold war. So I thought it would be fitting to do some artwork inspired by this subject. These drawings are oil pastel on paper.

Work with what you've got

This is more of a watch this space post then anything else, but in these tough economic times and currently feeling the penny pinch personally at this time I have to be resolved to work with what I have.

The great thing about this is though, I can put a stop to the wasteful consumer in me that wants to use four sketchbooks to do four sketches, and buy a new set of paints, to add to my four other sets of paints (ok I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea).

When I think back to my time in the UK and the canvases I bought but never quite got around to painting, I feel more determined to work with what I've got.

So, as this is a watch this space kind of blog post, here's a little tantilising teaser for you:

Javascript Experiment

Well I had to see if I could do anything with this. So I have created this page based in javascript that responds to what time of day it is. Take a leedle look.

www.sketchidea.ca/greeting.php


That's the link, enjoy.

Downtown in Vancouver

Being fortunate to spend some time downtown and to pick up the pen...

More or Less Square

Sometimes the friendliest shape, is something you can't recognise.

Picket fence

I've combined two images here to create quite a striking result:

Click the image to see a larger version.