| thai basil, purple basil, basil basil |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|03:49 pm] |
More little bits and pieces. A lady who was spinning some wool (I bought some rhubarb-ginger jam from her, which she was also selling), and a quick watercolour that I would call "mom does the eagle pose" if I was giving it a title, done at the same afternoon at the beach as the painting in my last post.
I am going to make an attempt to catch up with things this week! I owe everyone emails, mail, and cupcakes. |
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| humulous lupulous |
[Jul. 4th, 2009|01:55 pm] |
My mom was here a while ago and we went on a trip up to Cape Breton, which was lovely. I drew a little thing:
I forgot to mention that I was selling my wares at the Alderney Landing Boardwalk Artist's event on Canada Day this past week, which was pretty fun. I then went on an amazing scavenger hunt and saw three sets of fireworks (the last ones I kinda ran away from).
Hope everyone is having a good weekend! |
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| annies sarahs and arabellas |
[Jun. 9th, 2009|03:48 pm] |
Here's a screenprint that I made last week for the Roberts Street Social Centre's birthday party and screenprint fundraising sale. There was a call for bike-themed posters to coincide with Bike Week here in Halifax. Sadly I didn't make it to the event myself, so I haven't seen most of the other posters (though Geordan put his up here. He was also the one who organized the poster series.)
Last week was completely crazy, so I ended up having to rush this one a bit and as a result it's not quite what I wanted it to be. I was thinking about acrobats on bikes like in this video, which the leader of Halifax's synchronized bike team (The Ramblers) had sent out to us last year as inspiration. I was imagining the same sort of thing but with regular community members, but I'm a bit disappointed with the execution. Also I printed it on the wrong kind of paper.
Additionally: I will be picking up Kate and Bradbury from AFCOOP this week, so it should be online soon for real this time! |
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| a while |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|01:25 am] |
So many things to do! I haven't put anything on here in a fair few weeks though, so here goes:
Yes, I am still drawing these things. It is a compulsion.
Also, I made a silly little comic to screenprint, and when I actually printed it the thing turned out horribly because I accidentally used a screen intended for fabric prints, so here it is digitally instead.
( the comic and one more crayon house )
Today I sat in the Public Gardens in the sun with my father. It has been a lovely month filled with sunshine, wonderful visitors from the west, and board games. |
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| things in stages |
[May. 11th, 2009|09:52 pm] |
This was the image when I scanned it before making screenprinted cards for the crafters fair, I accidentally inverted the colours and kind of enjoyed it. I've been meaning to post the actual screenprints for a week or more, but life....ahhhh, life! I have been rehearsing a lot at my new job (as an actor at a historical brewery tour), plus I am still working at two theatre box offices (free theatre, a thing of beauty). Also tomorrow is my birthday, year of the ox! Anyway, just wanted to put this up here since it's been a while since I updated and I don't know when I'll actually get around to posting the actual thing. The trees have bright green beginnings of leaves, I had fresh fiddleheads for dinner tonight, and things generally are quite fine, quite fine indeed.
( crafters fair table photo, for those interested ) |
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| keiths and wickwires |
[Apr. 30th, 2009|12:45 am] |
Remember that crayon house I drew a while ago? I made it some friends.
I haven't been on the internet too much recently as I've just started a new job and things have gotten a little hectic....also I have been scrambling to get stuff together for the Halifax Crafters Fair this weekend:
Since May 2nd is Free Comic Book Day, I will be giving out free comics on Saturday, so if you happen to live in the HRM feel free to stop on by! I am screenprinting a bunch of stuff for this as well as selling the prints I've made previously, so some of it might make it's way to the internet afterwards. Perhaps I will get at Etsy store since I am apparently too lazy to get up a shop of my own?
Also, I was going to have dvds of my film to sell as well, but that is not happening as I have not gotten a digital copy yet. The good folk at AFCOOP are a bit swamped, so it might be a few weeks into May before I get a copy up online. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 17th, 2009|01:56 pm] |
The quest to Make More Prints continues!
( other things, too. mainly photos. )
The other night I got about 50 balloons from work (ushering at the Atlantic Book Awards), took them on the ferry from Dartmouth, and basically walked them across town. Miraculously, only one got punctured along the way!
Also -- check out this amazing book that em made for me in exchange for one of my prints. It arrived in the mail one afternoon and totally blew me away! |
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| afcoop, I love you |
[Mar. 31st, 2009|05:52 pm] |
My one minute film is screening tonight at Park Lane here in Halifax! As you can probably tell by this and other pictures I've posted, it's a really, really simple film -- one minute long, 750ish ink drawings on white paper with pretty much no backgrounds. It was a really fun and crazy process despite a fair few technical setbacks, and I learned a ton and met a bunch of amazing people.
I am somewhat terrified about the screening, but also really looking forward to it....it's the program's 10 year anniversary so there is a retrospective screening along with this year's batch of films. I've seen some of the films in the retrospective and they are quite excellent, and there's some pretty stellar ones that my peers this year have made also!
( here's the full low-down )
(I know I've posted a similar photo before but I'm just really excited that it is on 16mm film! So tiny!) |
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| march of snow |
[Mar. 23rd, 2009|05:48 pm] |
March print! I made this one a small (4.25 x 5.5) postcard as well. I was so stuck on what to do for this print, I went through way too many half-developed thumbnails (some of which I might use later) without anything good, and ended up having to rent the screen I had coated for an extra week because of my indescision. Eventually I demanded of myself that I just print SOMETHING, and here's what it is.
( a few more shots )
I keep meaning to get a store up and running, but things have been busy and I haven't had a chance, but if you feel like having one of these prints (or that other one), you can paypal $5 to occasionally.colleen at gmail.com and I will send one your way! |
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| hsm |
[Mar. 20th, 2009|03:21 pm] |
I've had these drawings sitting around for a few weeks and haven't had a chance to post them yet. So now I'm taking some time out of pinning tickets together at work to post them! Mostly it is lifedrawing and experimenting with watercolour/crayons.
( more more more ) |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 16th, 2009|01:20 pm] |
I have a bunch of drawings that I scanned last week with the intention of posting, but things have been a little hectic and I haven't had a chance to colour/post them. Looks like things might continue that way for a few days, so here's something in between -- a little comic that I wrote earlier in the winter when it was lung-hurtingly cold out that I just added images to yesterday:
And also: I just turned in the final cut 16mm version of my film! I am done! I still have some tweaks and such that I will make to the digital version that I'll put online next month, but the bulk of it, and my requirements for the OMF program, are done with! Hooray!
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| flounder; snowfall |
[Feb. 20th, 2009|06:52 pm] |
I've been playing around, not really making anything that I'm too happy with, but I'm working at it!
This week I pulled out my set of crayons and had at it, just playing and having fun....it was really enjoyable, so I think I might continue at it for a bit! Here's some results, mainly doodles from work and such, plus some watercolour/crayon experiments.
A drawing to show Dorian what a yeti trucker he looked like in his silly hat.
( crayola crayola )
And: I have a little comic in 'Don't Touch Me' Issue 19 which is launching at the Toronto Comic Jam on Tues, Feb 24 9pm-12am at The Cameron House, 408 Queen West, Spadina-Queen, Toronto.
"With comics by Dalton Sharp, Dave Lapp, Jason Marcy, Hugo, Jess Fink, Lonnie Allen, Cam Lee, Jason Marcy, Hartley Lin, Colleen MacIsaac, Dave Sherrill, Caanan Grall, Nick Maandag, Brian Brown, and many more."
Thanks to this kind dude for asking me to be a part of it! |
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| comics of yore |
[Feb. 16th, 2009|02:47 pm] |
Old comics. This one was made for my first Halifax Zine Fair, and I have recently determined that it is totally out of print. Who knows when I will reprint it, so I figured I would put it up online in the meantime.
It's called 'Lucht Siuil', which is Old Irish for 'the walking people', a phrase used to describe travellers.
( the comic )
Coming up next: Crayons! |
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| homemade bread is the best bread |
[Feb. 6th, 2009|06:55 pm] |
So, as documented in that hourly comic from earlier this week, I did some screenprinting over the weekend. This is part of my attempt to make a print a month (I am counting this one as January still since I designed it and coated the screen for it in January) and learn more about what makes a good print design along the way.
I wasn't really happy with these when I finished printing them, though they turned out better than the last prints I was unhappy with in December. The good thing is that I think I know what I would do differently next time -- I'm looking forward to the next one. Onward and upward!
This was also an attempt to use up more of my glow-in-the-dark ink, though that layer had some definite issues when printing and a lot of the details got lost on most of the prints. Oh well!
I did these on three colours of paper, postcard size. This was actually created with a screenprinted postcard exchange in mind, which was organized back in October when I went to a 3-colour print skillshare workshop, but which I had neglected to contribute to until now.
( some more shots )
Since I have a bunch of them, I think I will take five and send them off to people in the mail -- leave a comment if you're interested! |
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| patrick stewart in a bathing suit: hourly comics day 2009 |
[Feb. 3rd, 2009|02:17 pm] |
I am really late in posting these. Sunday was Hourly Comics Day, and I only now had enough time to scan stuff (yesterday I was away from the house from pretty much 8:30am-1:30am straight). When I started doing hourly comics was the same year I decided to grow my hair out, so you can see it getting longer in each year's comics! Here: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. Sadly I don't think my shorthand drawing style has improved in 4 years! My excuse this year is that my pen was running out and once again I foolishly opted for 3-panel hours.
There are a lot of pretty fricken awesome comics that were made on the 1st, you should check out the forum if you haven't already.
So: some comics!
( the rest of the day is back here ) |
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