INQUIRER

SUMMER FICTION
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These were illustrations completed in Gerard Dubois class for the Inquirer Magazine in Philadelphia. The mandate was to create a piece for the Summer Fiction issue. I usually do not use that much color in my work but I thought it was appropriate this time.

9.75 x 11
Gouache on board

GREENWOOD & YORKE

SOFTLY OPEN OUR MOUTHS IN THE COLD
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This is a drawing I did of Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke from Radiohead. I usually like too keep color more low key but I thought a light blue with some magnolia flowers would contrast well with their stern faces.

13.5 x 19.5
Pencil, charcoal and pastel on mayfair

ELEVEN O'CLOCK TEA

THEY ALL CAME SO QUICKLY
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This piece started out as a test for an upcoming series on the Greek Gods and Goddesses that will be done in April. I couldn't waste a perfectly good piece of wood, so my test became a drawing. Purely on a whim: a parrot coming in for his afternoon tea.

INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK

JEAN-MAX | L'AMI DES ANIMAUX
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Jean-Max is always looking for new forms of inspiration when he is drawing. He finds it in original situations and places and turns them into masterpieces. I love him.

CHAIRS

THE DARK HOUR SERIES
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Here's a piece that appears in my book "The Dark Hour".

Gouache on mayfair
9" x 12"

THOM YORKE

THE SOMBER MUSICIAN
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This was an illustration that was completed in Pol Turgeon's class. The mandate was to find a characteristic trait about that person and execute it as an illustration. Thom Yorke's [Radiohead] music style always has a melancholy air to it, so I went with the characteristic trait 'somber'.

15" x 20"
Pencil, ink, gouache,
and pastel on 2 ply Mayfair

Runner up in Creative Quarterly issue No. 18
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THE DARK HOUR

PERSONAL ART CATALOG
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This was a personal project that I just finished last semester at UQAM. I created a personal book filled with portraits, my thoughts, quotes and songs of people who inspire me to draw. Music is the main reason why I started drawing in the first place. I am naturally attracted to somber things especially in music. The Dark Hour is the time in the evening where I enter my own little creative world.

The cover is a stiff cotton that is semi-transparent with black stitching on the spine. Each sheet was printed on Bienfang Graphics 360 paper on an Epson printer (thanks Mike). Bienfang paper has a beautiful transparency which favored the theme very nicely. The sheets were each folded in half to create an overlay effect. I also printed some text in between the sheets for a little mystery.