another drawing of dario

red dario

then and now

It was around this time five years ago that Dario and I had our first date. We met up at SAIT, a post secondary institute near where I lived, and walked around talking, eventually going for tea at Weeds Cafe. I was smitten.

This evening Dario and I went for a walk and ended up at the Elephant House Cafe, where J. K. Rowling wrote the Harry Potter books. It's one of the only coffee shops open past 7:00 in this city. We drank lattes and shared a piece of pecan pie. When we had finished the pie, Dario licked the plate and got whipped cream in his beard. That's my fella.

my husband and his laptop - they're inseparable

©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

ahnabith gish at cjsw

Saturday night ended up being really fun.

My husband's band, Ahnabith Gish, was being interviewed at our local university radio station, CJSW. They were also playing a few songs live. The band asked me to go along to take some photos of them. Since we were going to be there for several hours, I also brought my sketchbook to entertain myself.

I had never been to the radio station before - it's a pretty cool little space. I really liked the wall of shelved records.

I ended up sketching each of the guys in the band in my children's book style. The sketches turned out alright.


©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

And some photos from the evening...

My Cookie - painted 2 ways

I was off from my day job all last week so I spent a lot of time in my studio. I wanted to play around with the way that I create finished illustrations. I especially wanted to try not using heavy black line the way I usually do. Here are 2 ways that I painted the image 'My Cookie.'


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

Dario as a little boy

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


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

Dario - guitar, vocals

Weird Italian guy.
Also my husband of 1 year.
Yesterday was our anniversary.

another sketch of my hubby

©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

sketchbook fun!

©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

hubby

©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

Our Elopement

I took the day off yesterday. I didn't go to my day job and I didn't work on the paintings for my book. Instead, Dario and I went to the park by our house and eloped.
We had a very small and simple ceremony, just he and I and a couple witnesses. I chose my best friend, Erin Horne, and Dario picked his childhood friend from Montreal, Andrew Stevens.

Here are a few pictures that Andrew took after the ceremony.











Erin made us these one-of-a-kind wedding bands. We love them - they're exactly what we wanted. You can't really see the detail in this photo, but the rings are textured and have some blackened areas. They're really cool. Thanks Erin.

Now I'm back to working on the children's book. I'll post some more sketches soon.

A Chicken, Dario, Me

My mom just sent me this picture from when Dario and I were visiting them at Easter. I like it.

Hee, hee, hee