Whodunnit?
You’re invited! I’ve donated 2 pieces to this worthy cause. Go on and bid on your favourites to get some great art and support worthy charities!
Turned Down
It has been a busy, busy month - which always makes me very happy indeed, but does make it a bit quiet on the blogging front! I had some really great clients this month, but funny enough I also had more than my usual number of hard-to-pleasers… 2, but a record nonetheless!
Funny enough, the work done for both was work I thought was really heading somewhere good… c’est la vie!
I’ve revised this a little to remove their branding, but here is one of the pieces in question…
On the other hand, I also had some really great easy-peasy clients this past month too… here’s some of what I’ve worked on:
And of course, there was the usual stuff that I can’t share just yet, but will update you with upon release by their respective owners!
It’s Friday! Yay!
Well, Fall is certainly upon us here in the currently grey and cloudy Toronto. In my mind, I call it “Autumn” and add that dozy, Martha Stewart hum to it whilst (whilst!) imagining the smell of hot apple cider with cinnamon curling up from a steaming mug cupped between chilled hands half covered by woolen sweater sleeves. Snort!
But seriously, as I sit in my overheated apartment (darned building-controlled radiators) flipping between uncomfortably hot to open-window draft-chilly, I long for summer and eat watermelon. Yum! This weekend I’m looking forward to a girlie day of getting my hair cut at Toni & Guy (never been, but it has great reviews) and then a chick-flick with Tina, followed by yummy eats at one of Toronto’s finest.
Work has been wonderful and cRaZy lately. I love my job. I reeeaaaaalllly love it! I mean seriously… I draw pictures all day! It’s fantastic!
Here’s the latest:
And of course, the usual stuff I can’t show yet… I’ve been so busy and can’t believe I only have one piece I can show for it at the moment. Stay tuned!
P.S. Can you believe that Van Morrison thinks “Brown Eyed Girl” is a “boring” song! I guess you’d have to be forced to sing it millions of times to think that. I wonder if George Harrison had a secret hatred for “Here Comes the Sun”? Nah. Not possible!
Laundry List
Today is one of those fun Saturday’s when everyone in the building decides to do a month’s worth of laundry all at the same time, and me, with two little girls and a road trip on the menu today…. well, I just need some clean clothes darnit! Can’t I get my 2 little loads in there somewhere people?
So aside from the planned stargazing (yes, really) tonight, I’ve been busy with work, work, work and nothing could please me more than next month’s rent in the bank. Phew!
Here are some of the things I can share. More to come once they have been released into the wild by their respective new parents:
Enjoy your weekend, whatever you may be up to!
Did I Already Share This?
I think it’s really cool:
The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.
In other news, I had my first friend-date since I’ve been in Toronto (yes, my social life has been that sad). I’ve kind of been in an adjustment period and as a result, I think I introverted a little more than I should have. Anyway, broke the fast with the friend equivalent of homemade eggs benedict with hollandaise. Yum! Tina, you are awesome and I had so much fun laughing with you tonight and I’m so looking forward to more!
I entered my first contest…
and lost.
Well, it wasn’t actually my FIRST contest. I entered a logo design contest when I very first got into this line of work, and I won that one… so technically, the CreativePro.com “Designer’s Dream Giveaway” contest was my second, and while I didn’t win the awesome Pantone prizes, I was apparently a finalist… so yay me, or something like that! Hahahah!
The design in question… my lovely Gossweiler Dentistry logo and website design, which will be live very soon. I’ve seen the working version and it’s looking good, if I do say so myself!
So, I think I’ve officially got the bug… time to google more illustration and design contests!
Linky Love!
Man, things have been busy! Tons of work under my belt the past few weeks, which is always exhausting but highly gratifying. I still can’t share the best stuff, but here’s a few little tidbits to tide you over:
And surfing the net today yielded some lovely inspiration for life:
- First, a woman with true strength
- Second, an awesome little tool for readers at the end of their rope
- Third, find out what you need to be billing to stay in business
Busy is Good!
I booked a ticket to go and visit home for a week, and of course, whenever I book a mini-vacation, the freelance work comes pouring in. Not that I’m complaining! Work is ALWAYS good!
I can’t share everything I’ve been working on just yet, but here’s one I can share:
If you don’t know about green smoothies, this is a link worth checking out. They could change your life!
In other news, I’ve been working on some new images for licensing. I want to change the backgrounds, but here is what I have so far:
So tell me… what do you think?
A Trip Down Memory Lane…
Thanks to Loobylu whose blog post reminded me of one of my early influences in art and illustration. When I was a little girl, my mom and dad had an old gift box they’d held onto, and it had a pattern of Gibson Girls all over the lid. I loved those beautiful, subtly expressive faces and it was my dad who explained what they were.
Over the years, I have seen them here and there and one of my favourite places is on wallpaper in bathrooms. At some point in the last 30 years, this must have been a popular motif, because I have seen it more than once… Apparently, the wallpaper was designed by Charles Dana Gibson himself, and was originally created to decorate the walls of bachelors’ rooms featuring a dense pattern of Gibson Girl faces.
Those beautiful faces certainly have stuck with me over the years. They have inspired with their beauty and sass, so thanks for the reminder Claire!
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