fuel

If you give a man some pizza, maybe some tea, and another, tinier man, some oatmeal and Reese's pieces ice cream, and they get together at a party (the kind of party where you would find all these things), then this is what you find on the table afterwards.

apple mint salad

Fresh green salad with pistachios and apples with a lemon, mint & gin dressing — this is really good with leftover turkey. The original recipe calls for turkey, but this is a good green salad on its own and would be refreshing in the summer. I think next time I will try it with pink lady apples instead of granny smith.

auggie mini cards & tags

tag

I was doing some test images today for the auggie printables I made earlier this week — gift tags and mini class cards.

daytime work | evening work

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details from the wayside

Little details from The Wayside, Julie Morstad's gorgeous new book from Drawn & Quarterly.

gouache

pink shell & opera

anno's aesop

My favourite edition of Aesop's Fables is a 1987 edition by Mitsumasa Anno. It's not just a book of fables, it's a book about books, about different interpretations and points of view and in a way it is also about parenting.

The structure of the book is a book within a book. One day a little fox named Freddy finds a book in the woods, which he brings home to his father, Mr. Fox. Mr. Fox cannot read, being a fox, so he pretends to read the book to his son by interpreting the pictures.

Each page contains a page with a classic fable on it. Underneath is the version told by Mr. Fox. 

2012: the auggie bloggie

One of my resolutions this year (otherwise known as a deadline) is to finish up a new series of books: Auggie in Colourtown, Auggie and the Counting Robot and Auggie's Garage. Every Tuesday I will be posting a new illustration as I work through the books, which are due to be released in September. Here is the Auggie Bloggie.

O Canada!

O Canada!, 1964. Written by Isabel Barclay and illustrated by Cécile Gagnon.

Mr. Robot-o

We're making robots...more soon.

In the meantime, you can make your own graph paper (dots, squares, crosses). Choose your design, grid size and colour and print it out. Perfect for drawing robots.

Image from Dick Bruna.