Adina Photo & Custom Frames in Toronto, that is. For all of your photo and framing needs, and for great customer service, you can't go wrong with this little gem of a place. I felt compelled to send a nod out to them for making my artwork look so rockin!
While I'm at it, a couple more nods out, one to Pikto in the Distillery District, and one to Giclee Printing Services Toronto on Queen West @ Ossington. You just can't get any better than these places for quality and service.
Shaky and curious at once, the girl didn't know what to think or do, for she had never before laid eyes on such a delicate yet devilish looking creature.
This work in progress is an acrylic painting on 12 x 12 gallery canvas for an upcoming show. Please see the post below for the full canvas view. Thanks for stopping by!
Sorry I have been awol for so long. Thanks for still visiting! I promise to have new art up soon-ish. The thing is, my partner and I found out that we are expecting, which is so exciting! But then morning sickness set in and insomnia soon followed and that combination does not make for good art making. Or any art making for that matter. But I am told that very soon I should be back to my old self, and maybe even be sporting some sort of glow! Imagine that! Pregnancy extraterrestrial? Maybe that's why I have a bionic sense of smell right now, and why baby is growing like a super hero. Coolness.
I have however, in the past week, managed to get all of my work onto cd so that i can start selling giclee prints and have all of the originals nicely matted and framed. And today I did a quick little sketch onto one of my canvases for the Square Foot Show. See? Little by little, I am already on my way back. Hooray!
These 2 pieces, Vaudeville Act 1 & 2, will be part of a group Art Show from May 1 - June 30. As soon as the gallery has the announcements ready, I will post one here. Click the photo for a larger view.
Clara, with great poise, proved to her audience that it is not impossible to hold 2 mischievous birds while balancing delicately on one foot.
Little Winnie Faulkner had a devilish plan which involved some Tooth Fairy trickery and an early retirement.
"...and I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy!"
"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!" ~Lewis Carroll
Mixed Media/Cut Paper in Moleskine
Poor Eunice has a terrible case of the heebie jeebies due to her phobia of bugs. After a day of gardening (which for Eunice is an event wrought with frenzied fear), she showered up, put on her best clothes and sat in the window hoping that a moment of fresh, breezy air might calm her rattled nerves. Surely, nothing could go wrong now.
The birdie landed! I have also painted the sides of the canvas black which I think really suits this piece. When her face and eyes are finished, I will update the picture. Then I need to work on the bird cage.
Clara resolved never again to allow the past to dictate her future.
Clementine is a Work in Progress painted in Acrylics on 12 x 12 Canvas. Her coat, leggings and shoes are rendered in Pen & Ink. More to come!
I licensed out one of my illustrations (see IF: Hats) to the USA branch of the French company, Nouvelles Images as a holiday card a couple of months ago, and just noticed that it is now up on their website for sale in boxes of 6. See page 5 of boxed Holiday Cards. It is also available at some Museum's of Modern Art.
I had no idea what the girl was going to write on the chalkboard for "Punchline", but made it clear she had better think of something by the time her "set" was complete.
In the meantime i had been listening to Joanna Newsom and one of her lyrics is "it was a funny, funny little thing" and i thought, HeY! That's what a Punchline is... It's a funny little thing!
So there you have it.
Mixed Media & Cut Paper Illustration in Moleskine.
When a child's voice is taken away, the child is essentially forgotten. All children need and deserve a voice. Their own voice, thank you very much.
A quick rendering in gouache and ink for IF.
Quote on illustration by William S. Burroughs.
Have we not all died and grown from the seeds of such pain?
Mixed Media Cut Paper Illustration in Moleskine.
Mixed Media Collage in Moleskine: Layered paper for the background. The girl was drawn and cut out from watercolour paper, her face and hair painted with gouache, and her body and crown fashioned in Pen & Ink.
Having grown special wings
Olive, stuck in a stitch
Longed desperately to fly.
Clara, in red beads
Makes ill chocolate from scratch
Dessert, anyone?
The Sky was very telling and
The Wind whispered and screamed at once
Nothing, yet Everything!
Edith & Kitty star in "The First Snowfall."
Copyright © 2008 Piper Anderson and Nouvelles Images. Happy Holiday's to The Paper Place people! Edith is wearing her favourite Chiyogami Dress in 188. We hope you like it!The Girl followed the rather curious advice of The Ominous Voice and decided to try growing up.
"But where is here?" The Girl cried at the top of her voice,
stomping her feet.
The Cloud That Speaks shuddered and sank
just a very little bit
and The Girl stared, waiting for the answer
with her hands placed firmly on her hips.
She was meaning business, it was quite evident!
Open shakes the soul
In the still night, trees hold you
Go quietly on
