“Getting bored is not allowed.” Who is the Kay Thompson in your life? #Eloise
Kay Thompson
Originally published in April 2022 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Pigeons & Elevator Buttons
Originally published in April 2022 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Art Classes: Cocoa & Paint
Originally published in March 2022 in Art Classes, Blog, Toronto Illustrators
The Best Way to Complain
Originally published in February 2022 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
This moment in time calls for some slap-dash oil brushes. Once again I turned to the “Classic Paints” collection by Sadie Lew, a Colorado-based designer committed to “making the digital look traditional.” The model is James Murphy, one of the more intriguing lost boys still riding this planet. To learn more about Murphy, this Guardian article […]
new york, NEW YORK!
Originally published in December 2021 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Truman Capote
Originally published in November 2021 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Truman Capote was the “great dissembler” — someone whose prose switched channels back and forth between fact and fiction until they merged in technicolour. At least, that’s the word Truman’s lawyer, Alan U. Schwartz, used to describe his client in the Afterword to Summer Crossing (Capote’s lost first novel published by Schwartz in 2005). By […]
Elsie de Wolfe
Originally published in November 2021 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Elsie de Wolfe on the shoulders of her French fitness instructor. Elsie was one of the great characters of the early 20th century. As they say, she was up for anything. Daughter of an American father and a Canadian mother, she ran a successful interior design firm on “Toity-toid” street in New York, […]
Hyper-realistic vs. suggestive drawing styles
Originally published in November 2021 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Hyper-realistic or suggestive? In high school, I was OBSESSED with drawing objects so accurately that the viewer might mistakenly try and lift them off the page. I liked certainty. This copy of a Clinique eyeliner ad was a case in point. While I was making this, I remember slicing my Staedler eraser […]
