Bluebird winter day. #illustration #watercolour #nature
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.
Edie Sedgwick
December 9, 2017
She came bursting out of the gate, with no limits and no inhibitions.
Then the moment passed.
She changed, we changed.
She forced her exit in the most banal and predictable way.
In 2018, she would have been an Instagram star,
A sought-after brand influencer.
But she would have burnt out faster on the internet.
Another delicate beauty eaten up by our machines.
#EdieSedgwick
Andy Warhol’s Wig
December 4, 2017
What started out as a patch for male pattern baldness turned into a fashion accessory before culminating in a full-on exploration of drag.
My dad and I visited the Warhol Museum in Pittsburg in the fall of 2008. We took in the displays in our Obama T-shirts.
Good times.
I want to be alone
December 4, 2017
I can’t transcribe magazine interviews ALL day.
So I thought, What would Warhol do?
He’d put on some soup and draw a Hollywood star.
Greta Garbo’s modern reaction to our prying eyes.
#Garbo @Campbells #IWantToBeAlone #Illustration #Watercolor #AndyWarhol @thewarholmuseum
