I wish i had a river i could skate away on.

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Prince of Monaco

As I've mentionned before, i collaborated with the online brit magazine Ballad Of... last summer.

The theme of the submition had to be "Eclectic Few Days Off". I was happy to use joel since i hadnt drawn him for a long while. (he insisted that this is not resemblant since his jaw is too rounded. but ME thinsk it still looks just as handsome as him. doing exact portraits is hard and slightly boring to me.)

Anyways. im putting this up now since the mag is out! (you can purchase it online for a decent price but the shipping to canada is killer.) I still think its a very cool magazine with lots of talented artists. And they were terribly lovely to work with.



i'm off to doing as much as i can before hallloween frenzie is here. (we are attending two halloween nights, which will probably ruin my skin for a month. my costume involves face paint.)
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I've been sending Halloween promo cards this year, i love the result and i'll put up the design of it on friday for people who wont have one in the mailbox.

I do not know, Sir.

Something i had in mind for a couple weeks, before sitting and getting to it. I wanted to do a couple of those, hair-related sort of. Like, Colour? Perm? Hair-Spray?

I dont know if those are catchy. I dont know if i like this one as much as much as i liked the concept in my mind. I dont know if the colours are too drab. or just cool and cold. (what i was aimming for.) I feel very uncertain... :)

So let me know what YOU think.

ta.


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ps: thanks, model: sashi.
title of the blog: hommage to Data.

For Joel.

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i did it...i just over-wrote my hi-resolution of that. so stupid. i feel like im back 5 years ago.
i intended to print this at some point...now its 72 DPI. F&CK.
i dont think so but i wish there was a way to go back in your computer's brain memory and find other versions of files you saved over by mistake. god that would make me happy. but, no.

toua et moua

ME IN COLOURS!

Sam coloured my sketch. like i had hers. this was a very enjoyable game and i would very much like to do that again some time.




In the mean time, i went to british colombia, canada. (our wild west). i even saw mile 0. (the furthest west point of canada.)
we spent a long week end in victoria to spend some time with Joel's family and friends. and traveled for a short trip to vancouver.

here's some pics of our adventure.






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and a little panoramic view experience...
didnt turn out quite as successfull as i thought when snapping away, in the aqua-bus. (see far right, those things are awsome, and expensive..)

grrrrrrr, I'm mmmaad.

Remember when i was talking about that sketch swap? this is my friend Samantha's sketch of herself. I coloured it my way. it was actually a little more tricky then i thought to apply natural ways of colouring onto someone else's lines. defenetly a grown up colour-book feel. i like that little skull pattern and im actually using it for an illustration of mine im working on right now. that has a lot to do with halloween, and pumpkins. :)

and just for some added atmosphere, mushy sloshy rain falling to anticipate ugly montreal spring days. like way in advance.



listening to: joel's harry potter audio book through the office door.
eating: home made celeri soup
drinking: grapefruit juice
reading: margaret atwood, "the year of the flood"
thinking about: commercial illustration

september baby

i've been a little out of it, drawing-wise. i was sort of out of ideas i guess.

BUT... i have been working (and that was a delight actually) with angie of I HEART NORWEGIAN WOOD. im not talking too much about it, first of all because the secret is always more fun, and second, just cause...but here is a little sneak, its not the real thing but something that came out of the work i did for her. I really dig her creations, and i reeeaaaally liked working in collaboration with someone so talented/creative/articulate.




talking about nice people....
i also had a little play-time with boum. we're doing a sort of drawing swap. we both have to colour a sketch from the other. we actually chose to draw self-portraits, in our sketching style. but then have to colour the other's line art, in our colouring ways...that should be interesting, and maybe hard. but i think its great.
here's what i came up with this afternoon, i dont have a berry tattoo like that, but whatev.



and lastly, a little doodle, that i might finish, and might not. im also suppose to make new business cards...since my email/phone changed, and that TA DAH, i have a website. but im sort of out of it for that too.....
shake it!!

mmmm....

almost done.
I really wanted it to look like a bathroom self-portrait kind of thing. so i was trying for a ceramique wall in the background.
but i think i like the wall without anything better. its warmer??

i think i'll keep playing with it a little more. im not satisfied in therms of being faithful to my palette.

but for now i need to lunch.

drawing: augustine, eating: paula-red apples, drinking: starbucks coffee, reading: millenium3, watching: jean-luc picard.

Ok, i have a couple more ideas in mind, that i want to get through for my porfolio update.

first of all, i did last week a submition for the cool folks at Ballad Of... magazine.
its quite cool, but i wont post it here just yet, first off i dont know if i'll make the cut, and if i do, i'll wait for it to be printed out and out and all that. but let me just say that it involves, pictures from Monaco my parents took this summer, joel posing for me, pipes, and retro bikes. :) im pretty happy with it and its just another bullet in my new body-of-work.

i've been really inspired by this to-die-for-cuteness web-zine lately, small. this is their blog.

and, since i said i was gonna draw something with those awsome colours i fell in love with making cherry jam...
here it is, work in progress. working with yet another cute pic of friend Avy.


i've been pretty kept by this:



and its taking some of my days actually, i'll be glad to have all my time back when im done!
i actually do recommand those books to everybody who knows how to..hum...read.

and lastly, here's another pic of our sweetheart of a doggy. just cause he's adorable.



for joel's take on the matter, or a view of what we-jolly-pair do when not watching star trek in bed or eating slow cooked meals, watch some more pics here.

WEBSITE!

pauleillustration.com

:D

many thanks to sam for all the the hard work that went into this baby.

have a great september. do eat an apple a day.
xx

we're long before blossoms.

this is a portrait of a friend, Kristina-Pearl, i was playing with this for a couple days, i like it, even though i dont know exactly what i wanted with the blossoms. i left them sketchy, i dont know if i should go very realistic, or detailed on it.

i also wanted to put a tattoo of sparrows on the left side of her chest. (left as in her right side, under the shirt and coming out a tiny bit) i kept trying to make it cool but it failed, so i left her chest blank.

like i said, i dont know just yet where exactly this is going, i might work on it more.

ta

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worked on it a little more already.

august.

I'm struggling.

i've been working on that nectarine-drawing, that was the second choice of the "drew last summer but never got coloured" portraits of avy. For some reason this seems SO hard. I'm having the hardest time with the background. I actually erased and started over like, half a dozen times....i'm using a really cute ref. picture that i took near my friend Geneviève's house, around Lavender Hill in london. I cant seem to pin point why, but this image doesnt inspire me enough to get somewhere with it, and it has become more eagerness then anything, and im getting cranky. i just dont know if ill keep at it more. I have other things in my plate, and this is more leisure then anything, i am thinking/in the process of revamping my portfolio. but i doubt this would ever make the cut at this point.




on a more positive note, last week i made jam, with this bag of black and white cherries that my mum had dropped here before leaving for France. I added a peach and a plum that were going mushy as well, mapple sirup, nutmeg and cardamone. its pretty great actually. but those colours....THOSE COLOURS!! i am so inspired. i felt the need to take a dozen pictures as the berries kept on turning more and more charming shades of all purples and reds. those colours are so autumny and even though i do like august a lot, im so impatient to feel fall coming. i dont know yet, but i will make something with that palette. soon.





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and just little pics of my males.
we are having the loveliest time with toto around. he's gonna be missed big time if he goes back to trois-rivières at the end of the month.
and isnt that the most blissfull breakfast?? god, i do love blueberry bagels. (geneviève: événement remplir votre sac chez metro....t'en rappelle?? :) But arent they ever so caloric....yes, still are.