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Wednesday
Nov212007

Flickring and my art on letterpress cards (!)

Disproving the Infinite Monkey Theorem


When Flickr first launched, I remember lots of people being highly skeptical. I signed up for a paid account ages ago and still love this online photo/image service. About 90% of my illustration clients find me through my Flickr pics, and I've even made money with a few photos as well. My school teacher friend Allison just earned some money with one of her photos because of Flickr; apparently Scholastic Canada is going to use one of them in an upcoming textbook!

What I enjoy most about Flickr right now, however, is the fact that it's a glimpse into a zillion other lives, one photo at a time. Fascinating to go into Everyone's Most Recent Photos every so often, for example. Click "Refresh," and the entire page changes. For photographers, it can be truly inspiring. I recently happened to follow one random photo to this set of amazing photos and then this blog. I'd kill to be able to take wedding photos like that.

Acrylics mini-painting: "Winter Red"


Flickr also got me a new illustration assignment. A small letterpress company based in a village in northern Wales wants to do a line of letterpress cards with my illustrations on them! They like my woodcut style characters like the cat below, and have commissioned more artwork:

Woodcut cat


I'm very excited about this! I've been fascinated by letterpress since seeing the letterpress display at Coach House Press during Doors Open and subsequently interviewing letterpress publisher Nicholas Kennedy for blogTO.

Anyway, I loveLOVE the idea of this north Wales shop hand-printing cards on Victorian letterpress printing machines with MY ARTWORK on them. When they're for sale, I'll let you know.

I've posted a review of Penrose Fish & Chips on blogTO, if you're interested. It's one of our favourite fish & chips places in Toronto. Yummm...

The Wish


Sold two more paintings yesterday. I decided to revamp one of my current paintings (the fairy painting below).

Fairy In Red


Instead of a regular wedding card to accompany the bowl that Luisa and I made for our friends Hrach and Lori, I created the 4" x 4" mini-painting in acrylics (see below) instead. I designed a note to stick to the back of the painting, we signed it, then inserted it into a small envelope.

Wedding card


Some of the paintings above are on sale in my Etsy shop.


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I was grossed out by the zombie scenes at first but then was HIGHLY amused.

THE LAST DUET ON EARTH: "In the future, music will be the only thing that matters anymore."



(Thanks to Ray for the link!)



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