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for illustration friday ... {wind}

Although a certain Big Head would be perfect for this theme, I've put up a small work in scratchboard instead.

for illustration friday ... {ghost}

These ghosts (ghost kings? kingly ghosts? ghostly kings?) were done a few years ago as an editorial illustration for Subterrain magazine ... now I can't decide if they work better cropped ...

drawing Halloween ...

I have this piece in Penelope's Halloween contest , a simple acrylic on canvas, as clear and direct as a death rattle. The rest of the field is all over the place, from the professional to the amateurish (my favourites tending towards that latter downward slope, like the child's drawing of a two-headed, orange dragon further scorching an already blackened skeleton). Anyway, it's all just fun.

for illustration friday ... {smitten}

I originally posted this as a sketch ... but then felt compelled to have another go at it on canvas ... although the phone now issues smoke instead of notes, the first caption can more or less stand ... My acolyte at the telephone ... she might be more enraptured or entranced, but smitten is just an adolescent version of that time when words become music.

for illustration friday ... {more trouble}

Double trouble: this bad Buddha's name is Martin, and he's a full year's worth of involution and mayhem.

for illustration friday ... {trouble}

The most obvious kind of trouble ... I took my pistol and a hundred-dollar bill, I had everything I need to get me killed ... from a Steve Earle song called South Nashville Blues .

pass me the make-up gun

Exhausted and ruined, with holes where my insides should be, dreaming about trains and money ... otherwise known as back from two weeks' holidays ... amazingly, it turns out you can have a vacation in Saskatchewan (and it can even be based on seeing your family) ... It was all good: seeing mom (in time for her 65th birthday!), all my brothers (Jaime, Colin, Jon and Kevin) and my sister Mary Ann, meeting my nephew Shawn (the newest baby) for the first time, torturing the mentalists (Ryer and Landon) as much as possible (and even teasing their mother a little bit), eating cake with my friend Stephanie, and spending as much time as possible with Adrienne, who is so lovely with her orange bangs that I gave her this little painting ...