april update

• Some recent sketchbook play:


• Here's a peak at some sketches of children I recently did for an editorial illustration, but I won't be able to show the final until the magazine comes out in June. Stay tuned.


• I've also had a few other projects on the go, including a trade piece that's not quite finished and some new postcards.

• I've been working on a presentation I'll be doing at the Alberta College of Art and Design on Thursday. It's on the topic of travel and art and I'll be showing the students my travel journals. I hope they find it interesting and useful.

• The Work/Life book launch and reception is also this Thursday, April 7th, from 5 to 9 at Uppercase in Art Central here in Calgary. Any local people reading this should drop in to check out the books and all the cool art. I also hear there will be cup cakes :)


• After over 2 months of living in this apartment, we finally put our art up on the walls. It makes such a big difference - our home is much cozier now :)

(art from left to right by Lisa Mizeri, Jason Mathis, Jennifer Melrose and A. Widman).

my spread in the work/life 2 book

We had guests staying with us this weekend so I didn't get to read very much of the content from the Work/Life book. I have, however, flipped through it quite extensively and am really impressed with some of the illustration work inside. There's a lot of really good illustrators who's work I'd never seen before.

I can't wait to sit down later today with a cup of tea and read through it :)

my actual piece in the work/life II book:

There was a bit of a mix up and it's actually the above image, Story Time, that was published in Uppercase's Work/Life II and not the Willie Nelson portrait. Just thought I'd clear that up since the book is now available and is being shipped. I received my copy yesterday and will be posting a photo of the spread. The book looks great :)

my process for the willie nelson portrait

This is what the final art looks like for the Work/Life 2 book:


My sketch:


How I painted it:

willie nelson portrait

This is the image that I created for the Work Life 2 book:

work/life 2 is done!

I'm participating in a book called Work/Life 2 and am so excited that it is now available. The preview pages on the Uppercase website look great. I can't wait to get my copy and see it it person :)

The book launch and reception will be on the First Thursday in April, from 4pm - 8pm, at the Uppercase Gallery in Art Central here in Calgary. Any local people reading this should check it out.

Tomorrow I'll post the illustration that I contributed to the book.


Cover illustration by Alyssa Nassner

work/life 2 video

Check out this video, a preview of the Work/Life 2 Book, on the Uppercase Blog. At 00:15, in the bottom right corner of the screen, that's a photos of me sketching, and the spiral bound sketchbook with the drawing of buildings and the coffee stains is mine too :)

It looks like it's going to be a beautiful book - I can't wait to see it.

work/life

Cover illustration by Alyssa Nassner

I'm going to be part of Uppercase's Work/Life II book, an international directory of illustration. I really enjoyed the first book and am so excited to be a part of the second one. It will be available in February.