Dario as a little boy

This is how I imagine my husband was as a little boy.


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

Sketchbook fun - 3 characters

©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

illustration for poster

This illustration is for a poster that I was working on a little while ago. I didn't do the design for it and haven't seen it yet with the text. I'll post it once I do.


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

The thing about this project that was really great for me creatively, is that it brought me back to the kind of drawing that I used to love to do. Over the years I've slowly gotten away from the more free style of drawing that I used to do as a student, which is also the type of drawing that I tend to do for children's stuff. In my sketches for this poster - and there were a lot of sketches - I was drawing many children and I haven't drawn human children in a long time. Instead of focussing on proportion, I was just having fun with facial expression, different sized eyes, elongated limbs... It was great. Here's some of my process sketches for this poster - they're pretty rough but I think the little girl is cute:


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

Although I think in time this way of drawing will dominate, for now I don't think it's appropriate for all of the illustration projects that I work on. I'll just be using it for drawings meant for children.

Since finishing this project I have been so inspired and excited. I've been working steadily in my sketchbook, more than I have ever before. Not everything I've drawn is good, but I've been experimenting and really enjoying the process. I've been drawing lots of characters which I'll be posting in the days to come.

Powerline screen prints

©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

print making!!!!!

I've been learning how to silk screen from Karen Klassen (see her impressive portfolio here), and on Saturday I got to make some actual prints. It was really fun and something I hope to do more of in the future.









I haven't had a chance to scan any of the prints yet, but I'll post some of those once I do.

Ahnabith Gish photo shoot with balloons

These are the photos from the Ahnabith Gish photo shoot a few weeks ago which I mentioned here. I drew the boys' portraits on the balloons for the shoot with local photographer Marki Sveen. At the end, we slowly deflated them and liked the way the drawings skewed. The balloons also looked interesting when they were fully deflated.

Ahnabith Gish - finished portraits

©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

Ahnabith Gish album art

I recently worked on the art for Ahnabith Gish's new album (out on Oct 4th). It was a collaboration between myself and the band's guitarist, Cian Haley. Cian did a drawing that he wanted to use as the album art. However, Cian doesn't paint so they asked me to do a painting based on his drawing.

This is Cian's drawing:

©2008 Cian Haley

This is the painting that I did (I left a lot of bleed):

©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

I look forward to seeing it all printed. There's some brush strokes that I love that I'm hoping will show up. And the designers have cropped the image in an interesting way. I'll take photos of the album when I get a copy.

I also did portraits of the guys as part of the inside art. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out - I'll post those later.

comments are back !!!!!!!

I haven't been getting any comments on my blog in the last several months and I was really confused by that. I never get a ton of comments, but there's usually one or two every once and a while. Not getting any since last April was making me sad as the main purpose of this blog for me is getting feed back and interacting with other bloggers. I recently realised that the 'comments' button hasn't even been available since last April. I don't know why it disappeared, and even though I had everything set for comments to be enabled, I couldn't get it to work. I am absolutely delighted that as of today that little 'comments' button has reappeared (thank you to the blogger employee who fixed it) although only on today's posts (and hopefully on future ones). If anyone has any comments about the work I posted since last April, I'd still love to hear it.

figure drawing

I went to a drop in figure drawing class last Tuesday. I wasn't super happy with anything I drew that evening, but it felt good just to get some practice. I'm going to try to go once a month as part of the sketch group I'm a part of.

printed work in the September BeatRoute

I picked up a copy of the September issue of BeatRoute which contains some of my work. In addition to the martini glass, I also participated in the photo which accompanies the Ahnabith Gish article. I drew the band members faces on balloons which the guys then held in front of their faces. I must admit that I was very skeptical about how successful the shoot would be, but the photos turned out pretty cool. I will hopefully get some of the actual photos that show the baloons to post on my blog. The photos were taken by Marki Sveen.