Max VS. The Zombies!

Had to paint Dr. 13's son Max as he saves the world from evil (stupid) zombies!

Obedience dogs

This article talks about the pressure on a new dog to deliver the goods after you've had the "big" champ for so many years.

Fireside sketches

We just returned from a lovley new year's eve vacation at Val Saint Come Quebec.
Lots of skiing and sitting about the chalet. Here are a few doodles from my fireside bake outs.

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Here are a few cartoon paintings of some lovely Canadian youngsters I had to do for Christmas customers.

Stalin

This is for an article discussing the Ukrainian Holodomor or holocaust which was initiated by Stalin's repressive collectivization policies in '32 and '33. Millions died and scholars today still debate Kremlin guilt when it is fairly clear they were responsible in many ways.

Alan Jarvis for the Literary Review

A picture of the flamboyant National Gallery curator Alan Jarvis who was instrumental in dragging Canada out of the past with bold aquisitions of contemporary art in the 50's.

Wajdi Mouawad

Canadian Lebanese playwright Wajdi Mouawad for the Literary Review.

Theatre Rusticle poster

Here is a mock up of the new postcard/poster for Theatre Rusticle's next production Birnam Wood. Very autumny like outside right now.

Mao sketch in colour!

This is a piece for the Literary Review about the chap Lu Decheng, who defaced Mao's portrait in Tiananmen Square and then got tossed into the nightmare Gulag for years.
It seems everyone uses the standard Mao portrait to riff on and I wanted a different pose so I chose one of his smoking moments and gussied it up a bit.

St. Hugh!

I had to make an emergency retirement gift tonight for the Dean of Lincoln University in the UK. They are rather fond of their great local saint Hugh thus the mash up.