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Bah Bah Bah Buuuuhhhmmmm!

Number 13, This is a dragon fly that landed on my leg while I was sketching my drawing number 12. I really like dragonflies and that is about that. the duck character was a sketch I doodled on a post it note. This post it note I taped into my sketchbook and swiftly drew a profile of my original. I'm thinking about grabbing some clay or something and making a little model of this duck character. I've grown quite fond of him or her.

Let's put it up to a vote is the duck character a boy or a girl? Most Votes in the comments section decides. Only one vote per person people.

Have a great august long weekend.

Cheers,
James

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Tree out in front of where I work. It is a beautiful old tree and provides a good deal of shade for those who sit under it eating their lunches.

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I would love to have a house on the back of a giant slug. I guess it would be a slug? I don't think it could be a snail since it is somebody else's home on its back. Any thoughts?

Jolly Roger Desktop Finished

I have finished it and it is up on the Canada's History website you can download it at 3 different screen sizes. Please drop by and download it, while your there feel free to browse around and learn more about our nation vibrant history.

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Numero 10. I love airships I think my love affair with them started when I saw The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. You know, when he escaped from that town in Austria by sewing the undergarments of all the ladies in the city together to create a giant balloon, then attaching them to a ship and using hot air to fill the balloon so they could fly away. Genius! I also like the lightning pirated in the movie Stardust. This is my interpretation.

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Drawing number 9. This one is a bit weird but if it stays in my head life gets a bit strange for me.

Right... Before you start asking why Hitler would think about Unicorns when he poops, I'd ask you to question "Why wouldn't he?". Then I would tell you this gent is in-fact not Hitler but J. Jonah Jameson for Spiderman and J. J. can do whatever he bloody well likes.

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This is my parents dog Jack he likes to attack people with love and affection. He get confused sometimes when people don't realize how charming he is when he sticks his face in their crotches and then jumps up and licks their faces. We have much in common. Two peas in a pod we are, comrades, amigos, brother in arms (snouts in Jacks case). As you can tell I do not have much to say today, so I will bid you all adieu until next I post.

Ramnocerous Final

Final painting for Deviant Art: Winnipeg Art Group project. Sketched on paper scanned in and painted over the span of a week on my off time.

I'm happy with my digital painting progress and I'm thankful for projects like this that give me a reason to do paintings like this.

I absolutely love the digital medium it really opens the boundaries of traditional mediums, in both mess and time. On the flip side I can't wait to get my oil paints back out and continue on my Folkfest series.

I hope the summer is going well for everyone. Mine has sped by with renovations to my new home my wife and child and work. I'm still trying to get out into the sun on the occasion and slow down every now and then, it is important for my health and my sanity.

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This is a sketch of my baby girl Lily. She had just learned to pull herself up onto things. She is very close to standing on her own and she loves to play on her little toy piano. We are getting ever closer to being able to move into our house. I hope you can all come and visit when it is done.

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This line is from a song I listened to once and I like the way it sounded. I've become a fan of Tea over the last couple of years, I have my wife to thank for that. If you can believe it I spent an entire year in New Zealand refusing tea. I think in hind sight that was a mistake. Tea is a great social activity. And by refusing it I think it puts up a slight barrier even if you don't mean it to. And you can make tea out of almost anything. I want to try stinging nettle tea. Sounds awful but it might be good. I'll try anything once.

Ramnocerous Sketch

This is a Sketch for a collaborative art piece I have been working on I will post the final shortly.

Have a great weekend everybody, I'm going to FolkFest this Sunday, it's not the whole week but it's still going to be righteous.

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Page number four from my sketchbook project. I'm having a blast with this project. Here's an update on the art front, I have not had any time to do traditional painting. This is stalling my FolkFest series which saddens me because I really like the progress I was making. I do have access to digital media and sketchbooks though so I am still staying sharp in some respects. I have just taken part in a collaborative project started by Justin Currie that involves a bunch of local winnipeg artists drawing creatures of various sizes them placing them in order of who eats who. I think it is a great idea and have just completed my creature and sent it off. I'll post it here soon for you to view. Well I have a few more happy thoughts to sketch up so I'll talk to you all real soon.

Oh! also, my artwork for my second submission to Mail Me Art will be going up for auction July 30th. Thanks to Tim Curley who purchased my work last time. Only negative to that was Mail Me Art sent the work to him prior to the auction. so this time my work will go up in the Gallery in London, England. Very exciting. I'll keep you all posted as to whether or not the painting makes it into the second book they are going to publish.

How Hamburger Patties are Made

Well why not?

This isn't any less grotesque than how our food is actually prepared for us anyway. And this way we get giant robots.

Cows scare me anyway, so stomp the yard giant robot, stomp the yard.

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Here is the third drawing. Notice a pattern? well it does not extend throughout the entire sketchbook. I thought about doing that but the truth is I draw on both sides of the page in my sketchbooks. so that is about 100 pages being restricted to a theme inside of a theme. Now it would be challenging to do that but I'm more interested in having fun and it has been fun so far. I did about a million renovations on mine and my sisters house this weekend so I did not get a chance to get any sketching done this week so I'm going to try and pick up the slack this week.

I hope everybody had a wonderful Canada Day. I know I did.