Originally published in April 2018 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Source: The New York Times
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Originally published in April 2018 in Blog, Illustration
Let’s give what we can: time, encouragement, money, and love. For those who have much and are still cranky and upset for some unknowable reason, it’s probably because you’re not doing enough for others. Changing someone else’s sense of what’s possible, changes your own.
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Originally published in March 2018 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier, 1951. Watercolour illustration by Alison Garwood-Jones
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Originally published in February 2018 in Blog, Custom Portraits, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
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 […]
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Originally published in February 2018 in Blog, Illustration
Bluebird winter day. #illustration #watercolour #nature
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Originally published in January 2018 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
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.
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Originally published in December 2017 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Lesley and Elan, BFFs. Watercolour sketch by Alison Garwood-Jones
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Originally published in December 2017 in Blog
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.
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Originally published in November 2017 in Blog
Don’t plan to make art (writing, painting, photography). Just fill in the cracks with it. @danielsmithartistsmaterials#illustration #watercolorpainting (h/t @gwartzmans, my fav art depot)
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Originally published in November 2017 in Blog
Yesterday, as I thought more deeply about the loony collapse of the United States (see Kurt Andersen), and all the people down there who appear to be cheering on the destablization of entire systems of meaning (see Stephen Marche), I picked up a makeup brush I’ve never used on my face […]
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