Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier, 1951.
Watercolour illustration by Alison Garwood-Jones
The Bouvier Sisters
March 17, 2018
Gender equality …
March 12, 2018
Handrawn social media portraits vs. bitmojis
February 16, 2018
Does your #bitmoji express the real you (even with 1.9 septillion options)?
Not in my books.
Hand-drawn #portraits catch the flutter of your spirit and reveal your hidden strengths way better than the frozen stare of digitized art.
Email me if you’re looking for an illustrated social media profile picture. Because creativity is a part of everyone’s job description today. — P.S. I could even make you a #superhero!
I’m at alison.garwoodjones@gmail.com
There, I’m done shilling.
#gigeconomy #drawing #doodling #graphicvisualizer #marketing #branding #freshperspectives #YourCreativePotential #creativemindset
Homemade brush holder
February 10, 2018
My brushes kept rolling off my desk. Then I remembered that old salt dough recipe from First Grade, and I baked a brush holder! In this sketch, it’s Joe Shuster, co-creator of #Superman.
Most Americans don’t realize Superman sprung from a Canadian brain. But it makes sense to us. We’re quiet, we’re strong, and we have eachother’s backs — all the qualities that Clark Kent and Superman have.
America would never have created such a bland, straight arrow.
#SuperHeroes #pentelbrushpen #watercoloursketch #toronto #canadianheroes
Sixties style
January 1, 2018
In this New Year’s Instagram Trunk Show, I’m modelling a tunic from Pierre Cardin’s Cosmocorps Collection from 1967.
Monsieur Cardin turns 96 this July.
I hope he still gets a charge from a needle pulling thread like I do from his space age designs and those kooky sixties model poses.
Kitchen prep
January 1, 2018
In my latest adventure, I worked as a kitchen prep cook at The Merchant Taps & Tavern.
The Christmas season was busy and they needed extra hands.
Suiting up in a fresh apron and rubber gloves, I spent each day making 40-lb meatloafs, prepping giant containers of jerk chicken marinade, mixing big bowls of fragrant apple pie filling dusted with freshly ground sticks of cinnamon, and cutting and portioning calamari into seven ounce servings. It’s been go-go-go.
Because the burners on the main line were busy for the lunch rushes, the owner set me up with a portable burner in a back kitchen so I could work independently and cook down all the apples I had peeled for the pies.
There is nothing more satisfying than adding heat to a bunch of ingredients and having them open up and flood your sense of smell. Apples, butter, sugar and cinnamon. A simple mirepoix of diced onions, carrots and celery moved around in some butter over a flame.
Bending down and breathing it in increases my sense of wellbeing.
This recipe always makes the broken state of social media seem less tragic.
This January, the owner is promoting me to salads.
The above illustration, which I drew on the line using pen and watercolour pencils, shows Greg Garson prepping the bean paste for the cheese & ale dip and a range of pies, including leek & salmon, turkey, and sweet potato.
Lesley and Elan, BFFs.
