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Blossoms•
Springtime burst of pink confetti petals.
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The Spirit of Jazz•
Jazz music as colour and smoke.
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Corvid Vicious•
Crows are totally punk.
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Home Before Dark•
Sometimes there's much to be done and a long way to go.
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Both Sides Now•
A diptych of a heavenly view as if floating among clouds. From up here you can see everything.
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Spike•
Spike is very colourful, which is fitting for such an exuberant fun-loving breed.
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Samantha•
Samantha is an energetic Border Collie/Australian Shepherd. Her mission in life is to catch all the sticks in the entire world.
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Hydrangeas II
Hydrangeas are beautiful even as they fade.
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Hydrangeas•
Hydrangeas are the world's most beautiful understated flower.
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Cloud City•
If you travel a lot, this is the view out your window.
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Sunflower Field II•
A field full of sunflowers plus a bright blue sky will always make you feel happier.
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You Give Love a Bad Name
This is a valentine to Valentine's Day because love isn't a simple heart-shaped experience.
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Brentwood Sanctuary•
Brentwood Sanctuary's acoustic architecture is well suited for intimate musical and dramatic performances.
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Dissedtopia•
This is Hansel and Gretel at Hastings and Main looking westward at apocalyptic destruction.
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Walking Distance•
These are scultural painted shoes based on a Fluevog boot. The left shoe show East Van, the right shoe shows the west side.
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Keep It Real•
This image is often how I feel when I read the news.
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Mom’s Garden•
Mom loved her garden.
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Sunflower World•
Some days you can almost feel the earth turning like sunflowers in the sun.
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Caerphilly Castle•
You always think of fairytales whenever you see a castle.
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Black Queen Advances•
Illustration for a course on graphic narrative.
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Crow Longboard•
This was an experiment for a friend who loves crows, and even owned a pet crow in his youth. The topside is based on a photograph that he took of seve…
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If I Had A World Of My Own•
Imagination is the best part of childhood. When you're young, you imagine more because you know less.
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Writers Are Sexy•
Illustration for a writing contest poster. The slogan was "Writers Are Sexy."
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Banned Books•
Illustration for a course in Banned and Censored Books featuring Lolita and American Psycho.
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Ukraine Sunflower Field•
Ukraine’s flag is blue and gold. Blue represents the sky (hope), and gold represents crops (prosperity).
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Charlie “Bird” Parker
Charlie Parker, 1920-1955, was arguably the greatest saxophonist of all time.
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Listener•
People always paint jazz musicians playing; this is of someone listening.
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Waiting For (1993)
This is based on Lisette Model’s black and white photograph, “Woman with Veil, San Francisco, 1949”.
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Corpse (This Too Shall Pass)
Painting of a mummified corpse and still a favorite in my inner goth world. I was intrigued by the position and the "scream" effect. I used to pull it…
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Fear in a Handful of Dust
T.S. Eliot series: "I will show you fear in a handful of dust".
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The Awful Daring of A Moment’s Surrender
This is based on the first "DA" in the closing of What The Thunder Said, from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, lines 401 to 409: Datta: what have we gi…
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Each Confirms A Prison
T.S. Eliot series: "We think of the key, each in his prison; thinking of the key, each confirms a prison."
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The Arid Plain•
T.S. Eliot series: "I sat upon the shore fishing, with the arid plain behind me; Shall I at least set my lands in order?"
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These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins•
T.S. Eliot series: "These fragments I have shored against my ruins."
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Till Human Voices Wake Us
TS Eliot series: "Till human voices wake us, and we drown."
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The Way The World Ends
TS Eliot series: "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper."
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Empathy
Like the frost you see melting on a cold windowpane.
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Change of Heart•
Red embers to glacial ice. An emotional journey.
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Floratricity•
Springtime is when that annual resurrection occurs so the flowers have a current of electricity around them, as if they are being jolted to life.
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EKG
The sense of reflection and the up-and-down movement reminds me of those EKG heart monitors.
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CAT 797 at the Suncor Oilsands
Once upon a time, I had a lot of practice depicting Caterpillar equipment.