Your Word is My Bond made its first appearance a month ago in The Drawn Word Issue # 1. And now I’m excited to announce Anais and I have received an honorable mention in the 2012 Portrait Art Contest by myartcontest.com. The words are all Anais Nin, I hand picked 493 words from her diaries (the Henry and June years) for this piece. Its been a nice change to work on some smaller projects since Grace, though now I’m just about ready to throw myself into my next book. 
All words are ©The Anais Nin Trust.
Ink & Perfume
April 21, 2012Bottling Magic
April 19, 2012
I just finished this illustration for a friend at Wyld Collective. A jar of electrical fireflies. The drawing itself is about 6″ x 8.5″, pencil-crayon on paper. Inspired by Van Gogh’s Starry Night I tried to capture the feeling of light.
Above is a detail of my electric bugs.
Lobhta Présente: Zine Semaine
March 29, 2012
Gallery Lobhta presents: Zine Semaine – A week of zine, comics and illustrated art.
Exhibition from March 27th – April 7th. Vernissage will be on Saturday April 1st at 3 pm.
Lobhta is an artist run gallery located downtown Montreal in the Galeries D’art Contemporain du Belgo.
372 Ste Catherine st West, Studio 530
http://lobhta.com/
The Drawn Word #1
March 23, 2012Christopher Irving’s magazine The Drawn Word launched this week !! I’m so very excited to be one of the contributors to the first issue of what I am sure will become a classic. 136 pages for only 1$ this first week, and 2$ there after.
For more info & a preview you can visit The Drawn Word
Get your copy via Graphicly
And to keep up with the latest from The Drawn Word’s creator visit Graphic NYC
Your Word is My Bond
March 23, 2012My latest creation: A series of literary pin-up drawings I’ve been calling Your Word Is My Bond. In each illustration I feature a new model and poet. In the first I used selected words from Anais Nin’s Diaries (the Henry & June years). It’s to be published in a new digital magazine The Drawn Word from Graphic NYC‘s Chris Irving.
My second in the series is Kate Chopin’s poem “Alone”.
“ALONE” by Kate Chopin
I see the sights that I saw in the Sight
Of Love’s dawn-lght in its morning’s glow:
I dream the dreams that I dreamt in The Dream
When hopes ran high over fears lain low:
I love the life that I lived in The Life
Of our living Love in the Long Ago.
Golden lights are the lights that yet Light
That Love Day Morn of the Time Gone By:
Bright are the blushes that blush in The Blush
In the zenith of high of the Love-Lit Sky:
Sweet are the kisses that kissed in The Kiss
That welcomed a Love not born to die.
Fearful the fears that fear in the Fear
that fills the space to my distant Star:
Black the darkness that darkens The Dark
From high o’erhead to the horizon’s bar:
Sad are the sighs that sigh in The Sigh
That thrills my world while you are afar.
Sweet are the hopes that hope in The Hope
That shows through the Future’s Door ajar:
Bright is the light that lightens The Light
That shines from my heart to you afar:
Lovely the Life that shall live in The Life
When the Distance no longer my Kisses bar.
Some in-progress shots. I was working out the lettering on tracing paper before transferring it back to the original in pencil.
Sparrow Heart Necklace
February 12, 2012
A Pearls Before Swine Necklace, the 2012 Valentine Edition. Last year I fell in love with the cast sparrow heart with the tiny little pearl. This year Himo’s expanded the concept to include the sparrow’s wings, and the result is heartwrenchingly beautiful. This illustration I did of the piece on location at Yesterday’s sale.
Black Heart – Valentine Sale
February 9, 2012
Pearls Before Swine | Vente Black Heart Sale
Fev 11 | 12h – 18h
Loft 201
620 Rue Saint Paul Ouest
Montréal, QC H3C 1M4
Jewelry by Pearls Before Swine
Prints, Cards, Posters and Comics by Madeline Richards
Courtroom Sketches
February 7, 2012Newburgh & Steven v. Tacoma, McGill Student Trial
Sketching the trial was exciting and fast paced. I had to be ready, at any moment I could lose the pose, or with the slightest turn of the head the face is gone. It was a lot of problem solving, piecing together anatomy, and memorizing facial characteristics. I was working on many drawings at a time, starting a new one while waiting for a moment/ pose to return. I was invited by my friend David (the Judge) and I was warmly welcomed by the students and media.
All done in the moment, I did a few scene / action images. + Portraits of most of the key players.
Plaintiff Defendant
Judge Lawyer
Lawyer Lawyer
Witness Witness
Links to articles in various student media:
Finding Grace
January 29, 2012
Okay, so I’m a bit slow with distribution and online sales of Grace. I should have the book available online in the next month. But for now, check out my website for a list of stores currently carrying Grace, a Graphic Novella. I will be up-dating the list as I go, so if you don’t see your city now check back in time. The photo above was taken at Paragraphe in Montreal… I got so excited seeing my book so close to Paul Pope’s Heavy Liquid.
Black Rabbit
January 29, 2012
I’m very excited to have a piece in the Light & Darkness show at the Eye Level Gallery in Halifax. The Gallery will auction off the works to raise funds for the White Rabbit Open Air Arts Project, an artist in residence program in Nova Scotia. If you are in/ near Halifax this month, stop by and support. The show will run from February 3-24, and the auction will be at 8PM on the 24th.
For more info on White Rabbit visit: whiterabbitarts.ca
Gallery info: eyelevelgallery.ca
