No dominance exists in the coterie at Christmas.

This seasonal mash-up contains one found drawing with ground squirrel then photoshopped with text and Ben Reevesesque snowflakes.

A quick browse with wolves.

For anyone who missed seeing my latest exhibit in the Attache Gallery, Lee has posted it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGjyL83BKA8

Locomotion on land is ungainly.

Here is one of my most recent alterations to a small watercolour I recently acquired. I was able to remove the existing paint quite easily and then add the details of this harp fur seal pup. The painting is roughly 3 1/2 x 5 inches.

Old news but good news.

I received a BC Arts Council grant this year to continue my found drawing series. I've been buying drawings from Ebay with a $25 cap per drawing (not including shipping which can be extremely reasonable at times and absurdly overpriced other times depending on the whims of those doing the mailing.) The monetary cap is somewhat arbitrary but was made with the idea that the artwork has been deemed to have little monetary value therefore it removes the implication that I'm destroying something of value or using the value of the existing work to give my own work value. (I mean, I'm no Chapman brothers able to go out and buy a suite of Hitler's watercolours and alter them. Not that that wouldn't be super fun.) Nevertheless, some people can get up in arms about "art" whether they are artists themselves or not, and place another kind of value on it, a sort of universal law that thou shall not tamper. More on all that later. Here are some of the drawings I'll be working with...

also...

I've designed a number of album covers for Jason Zumpano's band Sparrow. This isn't the most recent as those in the know will know, his band's name now being Attics and Cellars. I was going for a Penguin Book cover look with this one. The image is from a series of drawings where I'm working on found drawings. Generally speaking, in this body of work, I've added animals into existing landscapes. Here is another drawing from that series...

oh, and by the way, you can download that album from zunior for only $8.88!

in the news...

I currently have a series of drawings of wolves on exhibit at/in the Attache Gallery. The Attache Gallery is a moving gallery located in a briefcase belonging to Lee Henderson. If you see him with his briefcase please stop him and ask to have a look. I'm sure you will find him most obliging.