Seinfeld calendar

Made dis one page calendar last night at drawing night! (It has the days below but they didn't fit on my scanner.) I like to make calendars for myself to keep track of my productivity on a daily basis. You give yourself a daily artistic/creative/temporal goal, and put a big red X on the days when you meet it. Then you can look back and see the days start to string together, and feel good about your productivity.  Or you feel guilty for missing one and that empty box staring back at you. Apparently this is how Jerry Seinfeld works. In the spring, when I was using this technique, I would always try to go home after work and do some personal work, just so I could write the X on my 'Seinfeld calendar'. Its an advent calendar where you give yourself gifts!
And as you can see, I'm still enamoured with the fossil etchings I referenced in my December calendar.

doodle post

ALL DOODLES FROM MY SCHOOL TIMES

BY POPULAR DEMAND

If I don't know French in three months I have only myself and yoga drawings to blame!

          I made this inspirational poster last night at drawing club and then inverted it.  The original is neon pink and yellow on black, which is really hard to capture, but I like how underwatery it is inverted. It also an important message to think about. Srsly.

        I drew these cactuses after seeing some drawings Julie Morstad did in what looks like only red ink. I'm really into this paper tone, but it doesn't take water very well. It reminds me of the velvety, warm toned printmaking papers I used to print on. 

        Here are some bonus cacti scans from a book that is accruing late fees as I type this, but look, they're aliens:

flowers and Toby

Toby in town from Vancouver!

Cafe drawings at Cagibi

Only sunset colours

There is secretly neon orange and pink in all of these but my scanner didn't pick it up. Just superimpose a neon sunset overtop of them in your mind/heart.

          Some drawings from my trip to Prince Edward Island at Christmas. I was almost stranded there due to a coastal snowstorm! I was even interviewed at the bus terminal and appeared on CBC talking about how I wanted to make it back to Montreal for New Years to have a 'nice time' or something.

          The lines are all wobbly in the second drawing because I did it while the bus was moving, but I like the effect it created. I had a really nice hanging out with Jeneen on PEI, even though she was real sick most of the time. Jeneen is really productive and has a lot of creative energy, which I'm hoping rubbed off on me a little bit. 

December/Decembre

Happy mid-December! I made this calendar to stay organized for the next two weeks and thought I would share it here. Also, like making cards, making calendars is an easy way to force myself to start drawing. (Its also a way to add productivity to all the time I've been spending watching Louis CK.) You can open it in 839 x 1024 or 1311 x 1600. The initials for the days are in french, if you couldn't tell.

Last week I signed up for library cards to the two library systems here in Montreal and took out a bunch of books on flora, which were clearly inspirational. I didn't realize how much I missed hanging out at the library until I went and glutted myself on cactuses and wildflowers and my old friend David Foster Wallace.