More roughs

Some additional roughs here that may or may not get turned into something.

Stalin and Black sketches

Here are a pair of rough pencils of Conrad Black and Evil Uncle Joe.
I'll post the illos when they get painted for comparison.
Need to get the likeness' more on the money.

Funk out!

I couldn't resist throwing this crazy JibJab vid of me and the missus funking out on Soul Train!
Watch this!

Another Romanian dude

I just finished this one that I started in Romania of Grandpa Grig's vineyard pal.
A miniature ox this fellow, even with a fake leg he was hauling old trees out of the bush like a bulldozer.
A fantastic zombie face to boot!

Romanian farm

Here is a watercolour of one of the farms beside Coco's outside of Vaslui.
It was fantastic roaming around these farms just to see how everything works and of course it helped that it was a balmy summer afternoon.
Sketching near the pigpen would probably not be as much fun in February.

Blue Peter Rocks!

A fine turn out in the Yonge/Dundas square for our great pal Paul Humphrey and his band Blue Peter. It was a kickoff show for TIFF as the lads have music in the movie SUCK starring Malcolm McDowell, Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper!
A super open air concert experience for late summer '09.

Aretha Rotty

I had to make a picture for an article on respecting dogs and they asked for an Aretha with a circa '60's flavour. Who better than our our old fave Rosie the Rotty for this task.
She was a great old gal that Rosie.

Romanian sketchbook!

Well, Coco, Luca and myself successfully navigated Coco's homeland Romania without too many bruises or hangovers and lord knows we narrowly escaped a multitude of high speed traffic crashes...by inches. It is a place of great beauty and zany contradictions. Many things are better than ever with a standard of living that surprises. Gucci models stepping out of BMW's into dingy grey Soviet apartments while feral dogs nip at their heels. Shopping malls teeming with consumers dying to buy anything at all just so the neighbors will be certain they too are haves versus have-nots.

The repercussions of communism are many and the folks, as lovely as they are, are still gripped by demons. Everyone and their brother smokes and enjoys a shot of tzuica ( hooch) to keep the train on the tracks. Sausages are served with every meal and salads...well, maybe next year.

For every odd thing there were 15 great surprises and folks tripped over themselves to treat us like royalty, for this I will be forever grateful. Especially to my lovely wife and her family for showing me such a great time. Special thanks also to Nelutu, his wife and kids Andrei and Adelina for rocking Buzau with us (pronounced Booze-o).

In the spirit of all the fine cartoonists who feted me at the cartoonists society exhibit, I kept a sketchbook and endeavoured to draw all the people I met.
I didn't quite get there but tried hard and shall add a few more faces when I get the time.
The techniques and quality vary, but it is a good cross section of the great Romanians I met.
Noroc.

Coco in colour

I made a petite watercolour sketch of my lovely wife and hope it captures some of her majestic Vulcan beauty.

Lamont hates salad!

In this illustration for the Dogs in Canada magazine, the great Lamont is featured with his trademark "how dare you serve me this" expression.
Lamont don't do salad.