From my Ice Cream collection, a chocolate covered ice cream treat as table-cloth
Love my new tablecloth. Goes down well with the ice cream I brought home from Dolce Gelato. That maraschino cherry really was heart-shaped!
Category Archives: What I’m Eating
3×3 Annual Pro Show
The new 3×3 Magazine Pro Show annual edition arrived in my mailbox today. Turn to page 216 for a view of my Sally Tomato:
I couldn’t resist compiling leftovers from a food related illustration commission on this little stage!
What I’m Eating
I went to my neighborhood farmer’s market in Trinity Bellwoods Park yesterday. I am beginning to accept the fact that fiddlehead season is over 
What I’m Eating
Tartan, Scotch, and haggis…
I recently created a bunch of city maps for a travel and food feature. Little inset drawings of food and drink indicate what to eat and where to find it in Glasgow, Cape Town, Graz, Hong Kong and Kansas City. What am I eating in Scotland? Nothing!
Pastries, ice cream and mélange! What? No pink lemonade?
The Sound of Music bus tour brought me to Austria several dozen years ago. The Australian tour guide introduced me to Mélange – a whipped cream covered coffee beverage that helped me stay awake for the nightly screenings of the film at the Sound of Music Youth Hostel.
Tonight!!!
CORM-A-RAMA!
A fundraiser for Derek McCormack
TONIGHT
7:30 to Midnight
At The Garrison
1197 Dundas St. West
Toronto
PWYC – $10 suggested
Mark your calendar: April 10th is Corm-a-rama!
Remember to mark next Tuesday April 10th in your calendar for
CORM-A-RAMA!
A fundraiser for Derek McCormack
APRIL 10th
7:30 to Midnight
At The Garrison
1197 Dundas St. West
Toronto
PWYC – $10 suggested
Derek!
CORM-A-RAMA!
A fundraiser for Derek
APRIL 10th
7:30 to Midnight
At The Garrison
1197 Dundas St. West
Toronto
PWYC – $10 suggested
Featuring performances by:
Howard Akler
April Dick (feat. Tony Burgess and Chuck Baker)
Matthew Barber
Jason Collett
Joey Comeau
Claudia Dey
The Cast of Haunted Hillbilly
Sheila Heti
Doug Paisley
Joe Pernice
Hosted by Adam Sternbergh. With a prize raffle featuring awesome prizes from The Beguiling, Coach House Books, ECW Books, Merlot House, Noor, Sam James Coffee, Taddle Creek, The Walrus, and much more!
Patterns
Here are some more images from my patterns portfolio
Something new: my “Busy Town” collection
One of my “99 Clowns” patterns
Another from my ice cream series... Table cloth? Tea towels? Aprons?
One of a series of abstract patterns based on a can of sewing machine oil
This last one is my favourite. It’s inspired by an antique Singer Sewing Machine Oil can, one of which I have in my studio. I will be having this pattern printed on fabric for a project I am working on. I think it would make a great liner for a jacket, too.
In this design, my illustration of the can itself takes up a small portion of the surface. In the background I have taken apart the shapes and colours and created something a little more abstract. I have intentionally not used the Singer logo as I felt it is the colour and shapes that make the oil can recognizable. Instead I have reduced it to this hand-drawn S. The price is from the original can, but again, hand drawn. The only typesetting I did was for the ‘Sewing Machine Oil’ text, the content volume, and the ‘Made in U.S.A.’ tagline. The sewing machine graphic is not part of the original Singer design, but used to enforce the origins of this graphic.
Patterns Galore!
I have completely redesigned my website. It’s much easier to navigate and now in html — no waiting for my flash files to load. The biggest addition is my new surface design portfolio. Here are three brand new pattern samples:
Taxidermy and paintball
Ice Cream Sandwiches
Inspired by Carnation condensed milk packaging
New Website!
I have completely redesigned my website in html so you don’t have to wait for those fancy flash files to load. I’ve also launched a new line of patterns — designs for any surface. Who wouldn’t want a wall full of ice cream sandwiches?
