some free thinking...

I've been mulling over a few new ideas and found an old rough of a spring scene with a few friends eating. I haven't decided whether I want to do the final as a watercolour, digital painting or even finish it, but at least I have the main idea bouncing around - eating sushi and sake with friends.
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Update to the Zodiac Series

I just put the finishing touches on my updated Zodiac Animal/Little girl series. For this portion, I present the Dragon, Rooster and my favourite the Tiger. Please check it out!

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Captain Picard Week - Courtesy of Rose Travale

Picard week from June 16-23, had just come and gone. My lovely friend - Rosemary Travale arrange a nice artistic celebration via http://picardday.wordpress.com/ with some very awesome art work! I being a moderate fan of Next Generation did my part! Please check it out! Read more...

Dragons! In celebration of the Dragon boat race

In celebration of the dragon boat race next week in Toronto, I've been working on a new set of Zodiac animals. Here is the rough of a Dragon! Read more...

New Ink designs for t-shirts

Just finished a new collection for some summer t-shirt designs. I was experimenting with some inks, textures and spot colours for a quick clean look.
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Update to Yien Yip Illustration War Series

It has been a very busy. I've had time to finish another series, "War Time Romance". I was inspired by the work I did for "History's Greatest Tank Battles", and did two pieces inspired by the battles.
Piece one is based on lost love letters sent between a World War II soldier and his fiance. Piece two is based on a lost journal of a dead WW II soldier and his account of the war addressed to his girlfriend that was never sent.
The pieces were done in a more monochromatic tone in watercolor, ink and digital.

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Update to Yien Yip Illustration Family Series

New update to my illustration site. I've just finished one of my new series "The Family Seasons Series". It's based on my friends and family and on the different stages of life we go through. Spring is school graduation. Summer is coping with starting a family when you have a long distance relationship with your significant other. Fall is the start of the family and all the problems in between. Winter is the silver years of your life.

All pieces are done in watercolour, ink and digital.

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Playing with my Outsider Illustration

When I was working on my Outsider piece for my mailer, I had a few other interpretations for the front piece. These ones were not my favourites since the character is hiding more than standing out but I liked the results enough that I wanted to post them to show. Thanks and enjoy!

Outsider - version A

Outsider - version B

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New images for my two sided mailers

It is mailer time again! So I've been busy doing images for both my e-mail and postcard images. This time I've decided on a two sided mailer and used the theme "outsider" on both images. I've always wanted to do detailed images with contrasting silhouettes in each piece. Both pieces started with an ink underline and some experimenting with watercolour.

Outsider in the Crowd

Outsider looking Out

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The Love Goddess

Love Goddess - Colour work

It's a bit early for Valentines day but I decided to take another look at a piece I did earlier last month - love goddess. I liked the watercolour piece I did earlier but thought that a bit of playing around with some ink and photoshop would help me get a brighter and richer piece. I definitely was not disappointed!

Love goddess - Line work

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Ah, memories

Colour - MemoriesInk verion

It's a bit of an experimental week! I had an old sketch lying around - memories - which is my interpretation of what happens to a person when they look at old photographs and other nostalgic items. So I re-inked it and re-tooled it with some watercolour textures and voila a new piece with a bit of a softer feeling that I really like! Read more...

New series of Illustrations -personal work

It's been a long few weeks with good friends coming in and out, paperwork here and there and work on a new series of paintings. I'm really excited about this batch of personal work which involve a mix of digital/collage and watercolour and an abstract view of how women interact as:

the bringers of music

a surreal force of love

a man eater

Hope you all enjoy!




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