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Angie and I went to see Joe Batt’s exhibition yesterday. I was really excited to see his work as I had seen a flyer for the exhibition that had depicted a whimsical ceramic hare in a bright yellow life-jacket. The show was small, but there were more of the wonderful hare figures. My favorite piece was ‘Traveling Hare’ which I drew above. These pieces were also very colourful as Joe had added coloured highlights with coloured pencil; the ‘Traveling Hare’ had a very fetching bright green backpack and pale blue belt.

To learn more about Joe Batt and his work, you can visit his web site at www.joebatt.com.

Happy New Year to all of you, my friends and family (that’s Mr. Squeaky Beak above).

I had a good year and the best part of 2005 was being with Angie (you’re the best, gorgeous :)

Created with Sakura Microns, coloured pencils, watercolour, gouache and paper collage.

Here’s a pic of the Sakuras I use :)

Another Illustration Friday image, these characters originated from my sketchbook.

The original sketchbook character designs were drawn in pen and I am still trying to figure out the best way to create digital line work that I like and that has that pen quality — perhaps it isn’t possible. Anyway, I gave Freehand a go this time and started the image off with Freehand’s variable stroke pen. From there I took the line work into Illustrator and added areas of color with the pen tool and then finally copied the image over to Photoshop where I tweaked the colours and added the swath of yellow. The colours are bolder than I would typically use, but I wanted to try a different palette.

Have a good weekend.

I decided to participate in the ‘Illustration Friday‘ Blog event. This is my submission for the current topic, ‘Remote.’

This is an Illustrator image, derived from my sketchbook. Usually I color the Illustrator line work in Photoshop, but I decided to color this image in Illustrator because I’m trying to improve my Illustrator skills.