Behold the billable projects. These are the results of ideas brought to me by friends and strangers who had a need for a steady hand attached to a weird little dreamer. Shout out to friends who have babies, mothers with birthdays and hold fundraisers, and good old Craigslist. Where would we all be without you?
Incidentally, if you’re looking for some art for a similar situation or an entirely different one, I put a button up top for precisely this reason. Drop me a line :)
Baby’s first mural
with a matching change station!
Dear friends of mine finally decided to make a little squishy baby and I was given the opportunity to do a custom paint job for their change station and what would become baby’s bedroom.
Peters Family — 2024
Tahsis sawmill blade
and a fish tale to go along.
Craigslist delivered me an older fellow originally from my mother’s hometown of Tahsis, BC who was looking for a custom paint job done on an old saw blade of a composite image — photos of him catching a record-sized Coho salmon at his favourite fishing spot with Rugged Mountain visible in the background. This was a really interesting project, involving perspective bending and a little invention to bring all his reference photos together in a way that would read as plausibly a real place just as its rendered here. He only gave me shit once for painting the fish too small at first. So we rectified the situation and here is with his Tyee. How’d I do?
Ian of the Internet Ad
2018
The fundraiser donation
FIN-111 Final Independent Work
Donated to the Social Work program at NIC Comox Valley
2018
I was incredibly lucky to find myself in the right place at the right time in the story behind this work. My dear friend, one of the most courageous and hard working people I know, were in school at the same time: I was studying art and she was working toward her Bachelors of Social work. They were putting on a fundraiser for her program to go abroad to the Philippines on an educational exchange. Among the fundraising efforts was a call for donations for silent auction items — she asked me if I had anything I could contribute.
The timing was such that I had just finished my final independent work for my drawing class, and it was the most commercially agreeable work in my portfolio at the time. So I picked up a cheap walmart frame (the only thing in a fine art student’s budget haha, and I even managed to crack the glass in the process too, good one Meg) and brought it right over. It might be a little uncouth, but I’m incredibly proud and humbled to report that this work was the most profitable item in the silent auction. My friend told me when she returned, their trip to the Philippines was an incredible, fruitful experience. I still love and treasure the souvenirs she brought me.
This work is a combination of chalk pastel and pencil crayon on paper. The vantage point is up a back road in the Forbidden Plateau area of the Strathcona Regional District, looking toward my home town of the Comox Valley. Obviously, liberties were taken with the colour scheme. This is the only photo of it that I know about.