Broken Glass

posted by Arna:

We stumbled on this (Well, not actually! It's a figure of speech...thanks Clive :)) when walking in our neighbourhood last summer. Michelle says it looks like a fish, and I agree:

4 legged house...

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An idea for a structure I would build of transparent material, with lights inside so it glows a bit. It could walk like Howl's Moving Castle. I'd set it in a city square or a farmer's field and then watch where it goes!

As seen on Queen West...

These storefront pix were taken by JVB just before Christmas. Clicking one of these thumbnails will take you to our Flickr page. Once there, click 'all sizes' for a larger view.

Time for music...

We spent last night greeting the start of 2007 with friends. There was music and some dancing. This is an unrelated sketch from 2006. Happy New Year all!

May the snow goblin be your friend...

Click here for the Flash version of this little greeting with northern lights... :)

See everyone in 2007!

Frieze...

Posted by Arna in celebration of the party season. Here's a flashdoodle of nudists with their dogs and some blue fruit. Not to say that this is how WE party... :)

Too many eyes...

I'm not sure if this guy is a plant or animal. Imagine coming upon a horde of these in the woods...

Have a lovely weekend, peoples!

Sunset, quick colour rough...

Approx. 10 minute sketch posted by Arna:

This was the scene through our front window tonight. Done with Photoshop Elements as the light faded, hurrying to catch the moment:

Considering December 6...

Two days ago was the 17th anniversary of the killing of 14 women, shot dead at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal.

Arna's son, illustrator and comic artist Max Douglas (Salgood Sam), posted a piece on the subject, and we think it's a good read:

SALGOOD SAM's WORK DIARY

Variations on a cat theme...

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Images from morning warm-ups with our cats...

Flash girl...

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Playing with Flash using transparencies:

Unseasonably warm...

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Sculpt and doodle...

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A recent piece done in three nights at Central Technical school. The most enjoyable part of the process was slapping the figure onto a roughed-in raised slab during the last half hour of the third night. I like the contrast between the worked figure and the less textured platform she's reclining on.

This is a sketchdoodle of no one in particular, but the model for the piece above was an influence.

The Way of the Dackel...

snail in the big world...

Posted by Arna:

A snail's pace. No, this is not about how slow my current storyboard is going. That's maybe a subject for another post. Or not.

This is what I saw on a Go Train platform on a rainy Toronto Sunday morning this week. I hope the little guy wasn't stepped on. It was heading towards the safety of the brush behind the platform. Slowly.