Poster for Circus Art Show

I am part of another group art show at the Loose Canon Gallery in Hamilton.
I was lucky enough to do the poster for the show and I will have several other pieces for sale there as well. If you are able to come out and see the show, please do. Buying some art would be nice, even nicer if it was mine but that is not a prerequisite for showing up :)

P.S. All the rips, tears and scratches are done in Illustrator 8. It was not ripped or torn in any way and just thought I would let everyone know.

Subterranean

Illustration Friday subject Subterranean. "CALL BEFORE YOU DIG"

Just a rough that I could not finish due to a family emergency. Didn't want to miss the submission but will have to finish at a later date. Check the blog for the finished product later.

Brave is Making Friends

A second drawing I did for Illustration Friday's "Brave". I had lots of inspiration so I had to make two drawings.

Brave

Brave is meeting the neighborhood cat. A submission for Illustration Friday.

Circus Elephant

I took an old drawing out of the 'trunk' ;o)
and updated it for a group circus show in April. I hope to have a nice series of drawings/paintings for the show.

Final Nutcracker

Final nutcracker.
Selling lots of prints. I added the Seasons Greetings to all my friends and fans.

The Nutcracker

A piece I am working on for the holiday. My version of a Nutcracker. Hope to be well enough to work on it this week, I have been under the weather. Stay tuned for further developments.

Wonder Boy

WARNING CONTAINS SOME ADULT CONTENT AND CARTOON NUDITY

I hope this works. I haven't done this before so here goes.
I hope this doesn't offend anyone. An extremely rough piece of animation, just for fun. Any resemblance to any known girl is completely accidental. No audio yet.

Classic Vampire

Another one for the Halloween series. Vampire done in Illustrator 8 on a very old Mac. Spent a lot of time on this one but I like the end result. Hope you do to.

Halloween Monsters

My take on one of the classic monsters from universal, The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Last year I did The Werewolf. I am finally getting around to doing the monsters I had planned a while back. Here's hoping inspiration keeps coming and I don't stall out again. I have The Vampire planned next. Who knows what comes after... Care to guess or suggest?

LOUIE

I made this happy little accordion player for a raffle at a fund-raiser. It was an accordion themed evening and I thought the little guy would be appropriate. He's just a small little watercolour, I hope whoever won him enjoys him.

Completed Robot Goddess

If anyone is interested I will be selling prints of it. This is a low rez on the blog. Let me know what you think.

Everybody loves Robots!

Here's another rough for a computer drawing. There will probably be more than one robot because it is supposed to be "Rampaging Robots". I have had requests for more robots. I hope to do some paintings too.

Robot Goddess

This is a rough for an illustration that I am doing in the computer. It will probably change slightly but I am keeping it really close to the sketch, because everybody likes robots.

Jazz

Watercolour for a jazz themed art show at the Pearl Company starting June 20.

new page for portfolo

Some of these images have been used for designs and some haven't but its a new page for my portfolio. I am updating half my portfolio, reworking and editing the designs.

Dancing Man

Here is a sample of animation I have been working on. It is rough and no sound yet. Hope you like it.

Swimming with the fishes

LOUIS WILL SOON EXPIRE

Illustration Friday--EXPIRED. I Thought this piece that I did last year was appropriate for the topic. Hope you enjoy.
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Another picture from the gangster show at the Loose Cannon Gallery.

St. Valentines Day Massacre 3

Here is the final watercolour, Gangster cupids! My version of the St. Valentines Day Massacre.

St Valentines Massacre 2

This is the final pencil sketch for the Gangsters

St. Valentines Day Massacre

Rough sketch for gangster cupids for gangster themed group show at the Loose Cannon Gallery in Hamilton Ontario.

Special Delivery

Had fun doing this one. Want to do it as a large piece. Be free to comment. What do you think?

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!
Starting the year off strong. Here are some drawings I am working on for my sky/mind series.


BIG ROUND HEAD
INFINITY

OUT OF THE POOL

Now that these are out of my system I am feeling much better now.

joyride

A small watercolour that belongs to my sky series. Thought I would give it a try
I finally put up a links list. The sites that I recommend are great for information and good designs so check them out. They also have a great series of links themselves. More coming.

Aliens and Robots

Here is a low-res sample of some posters I am working on for my new sci-fi retro line.
I will also be turning them into other products, fridge magnets etc.
I will be making more different styles along the same line, bright colours and toy type images
that I remember from childhood.

It is really neat that the images seem to work the way I drew them and flipped as well.

Welcome to Hell

Long time between postings, but I have been productive. Took a break from the painting to work on my animated film, based on the old saying "Welcome to Hell, Here's your Accordion."
Limited animated piece mostly on fours, using illustrator to clean it up and colour.
Here is a colour test frame of the animation. Using illustrator for animation is a learning process, I hope it turns out well.

Mobius strip

Here is another piece planned for the cloud series.
This should get people looking for hidden meanings much more to think about.

Death walking

Long time no posting.
New year, Its been a rough few months, but I am finally starting to feel better.
Here is a couple of new pieces I intend to animate.
Just some short cycles with some smoke and flowing robes.

Happy Halloween!

Here is the first of the series of classic monster illustrations that I am working on.

It is acrylic on canvas. 8 x10 inches.

Try to find the faces in the fog.

Hey I can do still Life

Just thought I would show everyone that I can paint still life, not just cartooning and fantasy. I try to make them look as real as possible. These were done rather quickly taking about a day or less for each painting. They are acrylic on canvas.

Classic Monster series

For Halloween I will be doing some classic monsters. I haven't decided if I will do them as computer images or as paintings. Any Suggestions?

zippy

Here is a better look at Zippy's construction
Now that the show is over I can post some more detailed images

Here is a closeup of Zippy. I think I overcorrected on the colour because the flash was way too close and washed out the whole image.

If you are interested in any pieces from the show they are available for purchase.

Great Review!

In the 'VIEW' there was this wonderful review of my show. Click on the image to get a larger readable copy





If you still want to catch the show, its still on until August 3, 2007. Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12pm to 6pm For special appointments outside regular hours call Dane at 905-515-4346 Hope you can catch it before its gone.

Display

I even sold cards for $5.00 and 8.5" x 11" laser prints for $10.00 so everyone could afford something. Everyone left the gallery with a smile on their face. I also had a display of the rough sketches against the black wall at the back to show how the works developed.

Last Painting

This was the final painting for the show. It was too large to scan on my home scanner in one shot. So now you get to see it all together.

Zippy's Holiday

I even did a sculpture for the window.

Wow! What an Opening!

I had at least 200 people come through Opening Night of my art show
SKY IN MY MIND. Here are some pics of the event.

Here is the invitation to my upcoming art show. I used the image in a previous show on robots and got such a good response from it that I decided to use it as the invitation to the art show.
If you are interested in attending the art show opens at 7:00 with a reception on Friday, July 13, 2007 and will run for the month of July and beginning of August.

Here are some new images I have been working on for the art show I have coming up in July.



Balloon Man carries a feeling of aloneness, this is just a close up of part of the piece. You can almost feel the wind running through his hair.



Where is My Sock?



This is the place that all lost single socks end up. So if you ever need to find a sock, you now know where to look.



I can see my house from here!
A small corner of a larger piece, which I have just started painting this week. It continues in the same themes as the others with the iconic stone totem figures, which you can't see in this image, and incorporates the sharks and flying saucers from other pictures.

More robots

100 Miles to the Gallon--another image for the upcoming show at Loose Cannon.
Hand coloured print (watercolour)


A digital print that will be in an upcoming group show at the Loose Cannon Gallery in Hamilton On. opening April 13, 2007.

robot retro

Retro robots for the robot show in April
Done in Illustrator on the Mac

Robot in my sky

A combination of the two things I have been working on lately, the sky theme and the robots.