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Whoops...
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.29.10 at 6:08am.
Um..I've lost this weeks Sprout... So, next week!
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Green Water Witch
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.28.10 at 6:28am.
Seen when the water is green and slimy. This is another doodle done with ShinHan markers.
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Inky's Gas Service
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.26.10 at 6:17am.
A little Inky the bat story from the world of Maddy Kettle. Besides the pleasure of doing a little comic these pages served two other pages. One was to experiment with tone. I used Letraset's Manga screentone. I like the sense of depth it gives the background.
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Assemblage Challenge – Carla’s Stuff
Submitted by Jen Worden blog on 07.23.10 at 7:53am.
Next up and currently on the “ponder table”, Carla’s stuff! Some very cool textiles including dyed cheesecloth, cowhide and lace edging. The glasses I might snarf for myself. ;)
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Shelf Cat
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.22.10 at 6:18am.
A little sculpture I did to try out the Super Sculpey. He will now live on my book shelf.
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Materials
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.21.10 at 6:40am.
One of the great things about working in an art store is the sudden exposure to many new materials. Too many to try!
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On a roll…
Submitted by Jen Worden blog on 07.20.10 at 8:04am.
… apparently. As the days start to heat up, I head to the studio which provides a bit of respite until 4 o’clock or so when EVERYWHERE just pulsates. Been hearing the tree frogs whine earlier and earlier each day. Dog days of summer indeed!
Anyway. On to Teri’s stuff!
A few years ago I did a co...
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Yellow Poppies
Submitted by Alice In Paris Loves Art and Tea on 07.20.10 at 6:27am.
I've come up with a great idea, by accident as most ideas arrive. Taking small parts of my large paintings and turning them into their own paintings. Probably been done a bazillion times before but not by me:) I think this close up would look great as a painting by itself! Hmmm.
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Doppo The Fox
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.19.10 at 6:13am.
A new face in the Cloudscape. Doppo is a cloud cartographer from 100 years before Harry and Silvio's time and he will have a major role in book 2 of Maddy Kettle ( if they let me do a book 2).
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Egg-cellent Egg-xhibition
Submitted by Love, Me on 07.15.10 at 7:50am.
Oh I can’t believe I just wrote that cheesy title. There you have it – the humidity has made me obnoxiously silly. Oh dear…That all being said if you are obsessed with eggs (Yes, there is a big egg fan club), then you will love one of our newest artists, Annie Abdalla.
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Kettle Thumbs
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.16.10 at 6:10am.
I finished the thumbnails for the first Maddy Kettle book yesterday. Right now, the book comes out to 110 pages. It was a lot of work, even though I had lots of story notes and sketches the story went to unexpected places while drawing the thumbnails.
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Sprout Episode Six (Happy Anniversary Julie!!)
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.15.10 at 6:36am.
Happy fourth anniversary Julie! Thanks for putting up with me this long...
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RIP Harvey Pekar
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.13.10 at 6:27am.
Very sad news, Harvey Pekar the famous comic book writer died this week. He paved the way for indy comics and opened up comics for a wider variety of stories. It's nice that so many media outlets are recognizing him this morning, it certainly restores my faith in the media, a bit.
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Soccer Raccoon
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.12.10 at 6:39am.
A bit of a disappointing game but fun to see all the people celebrating. Not something I ever saw living in the suburbs.
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Cloud #38
Submitted by Ambera Wellmann's blog on 07.12.10 at 6:22am.
It is sticky and icky outside: the humidity makes for a challenging work week, I must say. To help beat the heat, I took a magical day off yesterday for the first time in a while, and had one of those beautiful evenings with a friend, a bottle of juicy merlot and some seriously stimulating conv...
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Julianne Swartz's Bubble Portraits
Submitted by Crooked House on 07.9.10 at 6:35am.
Can you see the teeny-tiny couple reflected in the bubble? This is one of photographer Julianne Swartz's bubble portraits, available at Mixed Greens.
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Cloud #36
Submitted by Ambera Wellmann's blog on 07.9.10 at 6:34am.
Cloud #36 16″ x 20″ Oil on Beechwood, 2010
It is, as they say, crunch time. I haven’t worked this hard since I was ten and my father made me drag logs through the woods in exchange for a barbecued hot dog.
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Drawing And Writing
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.6.10 at 6:26am.
I'm in the midst of things and there's not much to report. So far the part time job has worked. I'm getting more work done then ever with out any of the freelance pressures. Toronto is once again sweltering after a brief reprieve.
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Blind Memphis Finch
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.5.10 at 6:02am.
This is a character that's been around for a while and even appeared in one of my minicomics. I couldn't really fit him in the first Maddy Kettle book, although one of his songs gets played on the radio in one scene
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Cloud #35
Submitted by Ambera Wellmann's blog on 07.5.10 at 5:58am.
Cloud #35 16″ x 16″ Oil on Beechwood, 2010
I haven’t been posting these in sequence, but can’t wait to show an image of them all lined up. The transition from one cloud to the next is more evident when they’re photographed together, and will be a key component of this show.
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Situation Preview
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 07.2.10 at 6:54am.
Here's a sneak peak of Jeff Vandermeer's story The Situation that I'm drawing for Tor.com.
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Assemblage Challenge – Teri’s Stuff
Submitted by Jen Worden blog on 06.30.10 at 8:01am.
Currently on my “ponder” table:
Teri’s stuff came so lovingly wrapped …
… and is a very interesting mixture of things she’s picked up on the streets, in the parking lot, on the beach (I think because one of the pieces was filled w/sand!) … concrete marked w/cross hatching, rubber circles, smoot...
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New Colours
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 06.29.10 at 6:09am.
Working at the art store allows me to thoughtfully choose some new colours for my pallet. I decided to try terre verte, cerulean blue, indigo as well as white acryla gouache which I've wanted to try for ages. I read once that Tony Diterlizzi uses it so of course I had to try it.
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Painty Thumbnail
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 06.28.10 at 6:30am.
Whoops! I was trying to white this out but somehow I had green paint on my brush and things got out of hand.
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Fearsome Critters
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 06.25.10 at 6:24am.
I'm currently researching American monsters from folklore. Or fearsome critters as the lumberjacks say.
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Write Off
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 06.23.10 at 6:40am.
Mental health days always sneak up on. Nothing much got accomplished today. Adjusting to a part time job has sapped some energy as well as being kicked all night by Henry who climbed in bed with us at some point. Julie insists Henry only kicked my for 10 minutes but I'm certain it was all night.
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Scholastic Sandcastle
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 06.22.10 at 7:40am.
Yestewrday I sent off the last painting for the newest book I've done for Scholastic Education. This was a simple, fun book to do.
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Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 06.21.10 at 6:45am.
In order to stave off the madness that comes with the unbearable loneliness that comes with making cartoons I turn to a friendly length of celluloid, well digital files or whatever. My point being is that I often have a film on while I work. I watch lots of movies.
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New Art on the walls: Incidental Topographies by Sydney Lancaster
Submitted by Love, Me Boutique on 06.18.10 at 8:27am.
If you’re familiar with the store, you know that we are fans of recycling and upcycling. We have our Ts Event to recycle your old t-shirts and we carry upcycled pieces of clothing by designers like Five Surprises, Morena, and Orphanage.
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Working Stiff
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 06.18.10 at 6:46am.
File this under being responsible. I start a new part time job tomorrow at Canada's biggest art store chain Deserre's. I needed to pick up some extra money while Julie isn't working.
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Quilter's Cottage
Submitted by Alice In Paris Loves Art and Tea on 06.16.10 at 6:34am.
Ah back in the saddle, first one of these I've done in a while!
Quilter's Cottage, original available on eBay
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New Etsy Drawings
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 06.15.10 at 6:27am.
I've added a bunch of new drawings for sale on my Etsy shop all for great prices. Check it out here.
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Cloud #34
Submitted by Ambera Wellmann's blog on 06.11.10 at 6:44am.
I skipped a cloud: I’d planned on posting these sequentially, but sometimes they need some extra TLC before they’re ready to show themselves. Cloud #34 has a peculiar sense of space. It has interesting boundaries and edges, some that flow into one another,
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books and pals
Submitted by Alice In Paris Loves Art and Tea on 06.10.10 at 6:50am.
This print is called Friendship Makes Everything Better I'm packaging it up today along with others to send to a shop called Flea Amigos..... Don't you just love that name?! It is an animal themed gift shop in Annapolis Royal.
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Breathless
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 06.10.10 at 6:47am.
Watched Breathless yesterday to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It's still really compelling to watch.
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Sprout Tomorrow
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 06.8.10 at 6:41am.
Starting tomorrow I'm going to post the first in a weekly comic called Sprout. Sprout is about me and my family as we struggle with work and raising Henry and money and moving to Toronto. It's actually fiction but the family is based on us.
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Hope This Is OK....
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 06.7.10 at 6:22am.
Here's a sketch for a new kids book I'm currently doing for Scholastic, I think it's OK to show this... This is for Scholastic Education, so like a lot of my illustration work it won't be widely available.
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Holy Hell!
Submitted by Jen Worden blog on 06.4.10 at 7:54am.
Keith LoBue’s recent post “Poetical Modesty, Part I” is enough to make me throw up my tentative metal working tools/skills and give up the ghost. If you don’t visit Keith’s site, be sure to read this post at least.
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Cloud #32
Submitted by Ambera Wellmann's blog on 06.4.10 at 6:22am.
It’s been difficult to photograph these works. It seems no matter how great the camera I buy, I still have to take about 300 pictures of each painting and tweak it in photoshop before it even comes close to resembling the original.
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Movie Doodles
Submitted by Eric Orchard Illustration on 06.2.10 at 6:45am.
Stuff I doodled while watching Studio Ghibli's My Neighbors The Yamadas.
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Cloud #31
Submitted by Ambera Wellmann's blog on 06.2.10 at 6:30am.
It’s been a while since my last post because I’ve been working like mad since school ended. I have two shows to prepare for this summer, I will write more about those later,
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