Fun party at Y + Co

Margot Austin of Style at Home + Kelly Ashford Chadda of Y + Co.

Very fun party at Y + Co last night to celebrate the launch of Kreme's new line of wallpapers.
Margot Austin, Katherine + Ali Yaphe, Kelly Ashford Chadda + Cadee Wilder of Kreme were all great company. Wine + appetizers fabulous too. Thanks Ali!

Look what's going on outside my window!

And down she comes!

Close up view with cn tower in background

Signs for the two new condos going up.
Jesus.
This stretch of Queen West will look vastly different five years from now.

This week 3 demolition thingies appeared right outside my widow and started taking down the building directly to the east of me - to make way for 'The Edge" condo! Soon there will be 3 more infront of our building as the beloved aristocrat lighting building comes down to make way for "The Epic".
It's actually quite a sight to watch... makes concentration a tad challenging tho'.

Back in the Print Studio: Completing my custom penguin print

The 2nd screen to be printed in black

Applying the ink

And pull with the squeegee!

And lift: Ta da.

Over to the rack for drying

A close up of the chubby penguin
This guy came out very 'off register' but I kind of like it that way

Was back in the studio today to complete the second pass of my penguin print.
All went well.
The last step is to tea stain the print to give it a nice well worn look.
Then it's off to New York to deliver it to Paul Buckley of Penguin Books!

One of the best examples of recycling ever

Isla and Andrew at the studio helping Jeff recycle skids

Just had to tell you about this ingenious recycling idea carried out by my printing friend Jeff Garcia. Jeff takes the wooden skids that grocery stores regularly throw out (tsk tsk). He then rips them apart, sands down the wood and then fashions them into benches + other usable furniture for his studio. You can watch a little video of some of the process here. Just love that he recycles found material and saves the skids from going to landfill.
I think Mother nature is smiling down at Jeff.

Sketch for Good Egg Window

I'm working on an illustration on the theme of gardening for the window of Good Egg.
I love doing hand lettering so one idea I have is to write out the names of a bunch of herbs surrounded by little drawings of gardening tools + a garland. (I'll use any excuse to draw a garland!) I think it'll look best reproduced all in white on the window. Stay tuned for final result.