I recently recovered these two gems from a box of saved drawings. I distinctly remember being incredibly frustrated painting this chickadee because the only brush I had was caked in dried paint. Now, however, I quite like the effect.
This second image was from a high school project called “7 Ways”. We were to choose a subject and represent it in 7 different media, coming up with a final consolidated project. I choose corn and designed a book made from hand-made paper out of corn husks (a smelly job I don’t care to repeat). Each page held a different representation of corn through photography, pen & ink, pastels, pencil, painting, and finally print making. This print is all that remains of the project.

Lazy, rainy, Sunday morning drawings.

Yesterday's doodle.

It's a good year for roses. The peace rose in my front yard is has been producing incredibly fragrant blooms for months now. And outside my studio window, a climbing rose has hundreds of buds ready to open up. While the roses may be thriving, the tomatoes unfortunately are not happy...

A sketch based on Albrecht Dürer's Saint-Jerome (1521)

A couple of doodles drawn while watching repeats of Project Runway...

Having fun with Flash.

This was the final project for my spring studio in the Environmental Design program at UBC. Oakridge sits in the geographic center of Vancouver, a location carefully chosen by the Woodwards family in the 1950s when developing the city's first car-oriented shopping mall. Following the trend established by the mall, the surrounding neighbourhood was designed for the vehicle, with little infrastructure →

Construction drawings. Click on a thumbnail below to see in greater detail.

One of the most important aspects of Landscape Architecture is drainage. A proper drainage plan will minimize infrastructure and development costs, protect the site from erosion and flooding, stabilize slopes,  improve accessiblity, and provide aesthetic features. This site grading and drainage plan was a student project requiring the layout and design of various features including roads, buildings, and recreational facilities as →