BC's_150th_Birthday_Celebration_inVictoria

This Past weekend I got to visit Victoria and parts of Vancouver Island while working for Brandlive marketing on another Volkswagon promo event.
(p4blog post on previous VW event here)
For BC's 150th birthday, the Capital of Victoria held a 3 day festival on the harbourfront featuring concerts and all kinds of cultural performances.

I was on site creating one of a kind spray painted tshirts which were up for grabs in exchange for a 10 dollar suggested donation for Alzheimers research, so that was a nice twist on a media installation.

I got flown to the island on this single prop seaplane..



the view was spectacular..






seen here are shots of the booth and some t-shirts made over the weekend.








Over the weekend I also got to paint with some friends on this wall off the island highway.



I cant wait to go back!

I'm off to Vancouver island this weekend for the 150th birthday celebrations...I hear the prime minister will be on site... As for my role, I'll be making one off tshirt designs for volkswagon again... till I get back with pics, here's some shameless self plugging..I'll also have some pics from a fashion show I attended last night.

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prices range from $100-200 (not including shoe)

p4design-sketchbook

For this update I thought I'd share some sketches from my books over the last month. With a trip to BC that left me computer less for two weeks I had a lot of time to work on paper.

this is a sketch that I worked on during my Bus trip from Toronto to Vancouver, over three days. For the keen of eye, there are actually several words and messages hidden in this abstract piece..I dont remember everything I wrote in it, but I do remember the words "prairie dog" are in there somewhere.


This was drawn during the latter part of my bus ride through northern ontario. I have always loved the oxidized canadian shield that the TCH is carved through. I was also inspired by the amount of fir trees along the roads as I travelled, and was reminded of many a group of seven painting which i never really appreciated until then.

As it turned out, I finished this sketch up just as the shield and trees began to give way to rolling hills and open plains, entering the prairies the next morning..

this is another bus sketch..


a funny bird I drew one day in my planner whilst killing time somewhere. Kinda looks like a Nick DiGenova type thing...


a little horus freestyle sketchy, I think I drew this on the subway one day, again in my planner..



So, thats the sketches update. It's always good to get away from the laptop and re-tune your hand skills.

As for new projects, a couple teaser images..

BeatsBreaksAndGraffiti-press

This past weekend was Beats, bgreaksand Graffiti, the battle. Held at harbourfront centre on July 5th and 6th. This event was organized By Horus and the Manifesto staff, including Steve Ferrara of wellandgood.ca
Toronto has seen yearly graffiti expo's and demo's for years now, but this event was unique in offering a cash prize.
congratulations to elicsr and Iah for taking the cash prize!
We hope to see this event happen again, and bigger!
Heres the official Manifesto webpage:
http://themanifesto.ca/beatsbreaksandgraffiti.html

here's some links to outside blogs that have photos

blog.to

on HX4


I'll add more as they trickle in.

Coming up soon will be a series of murals by me in Vancouver...I can't wait!

A 3 day tour of canada

In no particular order, here are the highlights from my 3-day bus ride between Toronto and Vancouver. Obviously seeing the mountains was exciting, but I also really enjoyed the vast open spaces of our prairies, as well as the misty mornings of the ontario north.

My first blog as a BC resident comin up next...