Summer is here, but nearly gone. No chance for a holiday yet. We’ve had rain today, the first in weeks… it comes as a bit of relief.

This is an early outtake from a recent stencil illustration project. I’m still rather fond of this monkey icon and thought it would make a fun wallpaper for my son’s room, a rubber stamp, or maybe a silkscreened on a T… or maybe a new smart phone company is looking for a brand – Monkey Mobile anyone?

Scott

These two Treasure Maps were illustrated for Grandcamp Adventures, creators of a multi-platform children’s activity kit that promotes bonding between Grandparents and their Grandchildren. One map is to be used for creating your outdoor hunt, while the other is for indoor.

Last week I had a pleasant surprise in the mail. Rather than bills and take-out menus a couple of print samples from Oxford University Press arrived. I contributed some illustrations too a couple of books published earlier this year from their Tree Tops series. It’s nice to see the illustrations in context.

Here are the samples in my portfolio section:
How the World Began 1 of 2
How the World Began 2 of 2
Wolf Fables

This is a water colour rendering for a client from earlier this Spring. I don’t find myself doing too much work in “real” mediums like water colour or oils anymore. Timelines and budgets have dictated other solutions. I must say though, I’ve been doing water colours for over 15 years now and I still love the smell released from Arches paper when water or wet pigment is applied. Notice how I call it a “smell”, it isn’t a nice fragrance… I think you’d need to be a watercolorist to appreciate it. At any rate, this is the ONLY paper worth using. 100% acid free and archival. This lovely paper has been been made in the Arches Mill in Lorraine France since 1492, more history can be found here on their website.

A detail showing the wonderful glowing character of transparent mediums on Arches paper.

Yet another in this series of Fox illustrations. In this episode, our Fox character returns to Japan to gather news from his old friend a retired shinto priest convalescing at his mountain meditation retreat.

Client: Mosiac Homes
Project: Architectural Rendering/Illustration of White Brick Homes, Point Grey, Vancouver

url: www.ironandwhyte.ca

On news stands now, the Photo and Illustration Annual of Applied Arts magazine. Illolab has won in the architectural illustration category.

Lots of other great Canadian and international work in here too.

Cheers,
S

This is one of a couple of recent sketches from the same series as the Fox character. It features his valet, the Tiger, taking tea with a dubious Snow Leopard character in a Tibetan café in Kathmandu. The foreground has some peripheral characters, a couple of Indian mongoose (mongeese?) and a Red Panda lama from Bhutan.

Here’s a close-up.

For those that are interested in these kinds of things, the Snow Leopard is from Ladakh, in the north Western Indian province Kashmir. The hat he is wearing is typical for that region and is worn by both men and women.

ciao.