Imagine my surprise when I wandered into David’s Tea and saw this! So pleased to see my work on an excellent design and quality product like this. Would love to work with the company in the future, wondering about collaboration possibilities…
Just a screen capture to prove that I had the Featured Illustration on istockphoto.com this past week. I would’ve posted it sooner, but well, I am lame. And this past week was a bit ridiculous. The image that was featured can be seen in its full glory here.
Since this was the first time I’ve run this race, I thought I’d post a little breakdown of how the race went.
The Weather: After pretty much an entire winter of beautiful weather- very little snow and Sunday runs that ranged in temperature from -5 to +5 degrees- the weather decided to take a miserable turn for the worse on race day. The temperature with the windchill was about -22 degrees with a 30kph NE wind. It had also snowed most of the week prior and also the night before, so despite the organizers’ valiant grooming attempts, slippery, powdery snow had blown and drifted all over the course making it really hard to keep your footing. A friend of mine wiped out in Assiniboine Park, luckily I was wearing my YakTrax so I had a little extra grip.
The Course: This would be a pretty beautiful course were I able to see most of it through all the snow. Could’ve done without the hills, they weren’t huge, but there was one that you covered both ways and you hit it the second time after about 11.5 miles. Ouch. But on a nicer day, it would be almost an ideal course to run. I see that the distance wasn’t certified, but according to my Garmin (which measured over-distance, as usual), I’d guess it was pretty dead-on.
A mile-by-mile breakdown of the race comes after the jump!
So by now I’m sure you’ve all heard the distressing news: The actor who played “Wheels” on the various Degrassi series died 5 years ago and no one noticed. I read this news earlier this morning and to be honest, it depressed me for several hours.
This illustration was inspired by a couple of friends who had to have heart surgery in the last few months. It was a surprising thing, as both are around my age (under 30), however luckily both of them are on the mend with no serious repercussions (I believe!). At any rate, everything can be fixed. The image is meant as both a literal and metaphorical interpretation of mending one’s heart.
What’s this? Finally a breakdown of my PechaKucha presentation and only one month after it occurred? Why Sam, you are on the ball, I tip my hat to you…
I wanted to post about this much sooner, of course, but the news that it hadn’t gotten recorded dampened my enthusiasm some. It’s of no matter now, but it did upset me a bit at the time. Read on to hear a little more about the presentation and some of the “reviews”! More please… »
Earlier last week I was alerted to the fact that Chapters has been selling a bunch of paper products with some of my iStockphoto illustrations on them. How novel! How… noteworthy (pun intended). So, of course I had to venture down to the local Polo Park Chapters to check them out.
Just an illustration of a jellyfish… Had been working on this one for a while, but never really seemed to get my mojo workin’ with it. I like the final piece, but I feel like maybe it needs more detail or something…
Of course, if you disagree, you can purchase it on iStockphoto.
Here’s the latest illustration I have available on iStockphoto. Just wanted to do a more modern take on a traditional, hunting-style image. I like the way this one came out.
Since I was so successful with my last year’s resolutions *cough, cough*, I figured I’d give the whole thing another shot. That’s what the whole “New. Year.” thing is about, right? It’s a good thing I didn’t make a resolution to blog more, since the last resolution post is practically still on the same page of blog entries. Ha! I’m not that stupid.
