Grandcamp Adventures – Treasure Maps

These two Treasure Maps were illustrated for Grandcamp Adventures, creators of a multi-platform children’s activity kit that promotes bonding between Grandparents and their Grandchildren.

The Tiger Takes Tea

The Fox, Tortoise & Sheep

This illo has been a long time coming. I sketched it ages ago and posted the b/w version of it on this blog. After several modifications it has finally been completed. It’s part of a series that started with this fox.

The Fox Returns to Japan

Yet another in this series of Fox illustrations. In this episode, our Fox character returns to Japan to gather news from his old friend a retired shinto priest convalescing at his mountain meditation retreat.

Iron & Whyte Architectural Rendering – Vancouver

Client: Mosiac Homes
Project: Architectural Rendering/Illustration of White Brick Homes, Point Grey, Vancouver

Gung Hay Fat Choy – The Tiger Valet

This was an illustration created as a self promo and sent to clients and friends to mark Chinese New Years. The tiger is also a character from my ongoing Fox series — the gentleman Fox’s personal valet. A generic print version of this usually available n my etsy shop.
Here’s a detail.

Tetiaroa, Tahiti – French Polynesia

These three emblems are part of the group of illustrations used to promote the resort on the island of Onetahi on the Tetiaroa Atoll, Tahiti. They accompany several maps highlighting the area from macro to micro.

Teti’Aroa – A Tahitian Atoll – French Polynesia

Here is another illustration from the Teti’Aroa series featuring an aerial view of five of the Tahitian atoll’s islands. Onetahi is in the foreground. The inspiration for this was a hand tinted engraving.
The illustration was created to be viewed at various degrees of magnification. On the project’s website the overall view, as seen here, will [...]

Sheik Zayed Desert Learning Centre – Mural Illustration

This is another recent sample from the Sheikh Zayed Desert Learning Center in the United Arab Emirates. The content for the Center is being expertly developed by AldrichPears Associates in Vancouver. It is planned for opening in 2011 and will be constructed and operated utilizing pioneer sustainability principles, a truly relevant goal given its location [...]

Teti’Aroa – Maps from a Tahitian Paradise

Here are a few highlights including maps and a master plan from a resort project located on an remote atoll in French Polynesia.

The Digital Gateway at the 2010 Commerce Centre – Conceptual Sketches

Here are a couple conceptual sketches commissioned by Vancouver’s Switch Interactive. A once neglected utility corridor in the Robson Conference centre was transformed into an vital and interactive experience promoting BC’s technology sector.
Although somewhat loose, the conceptual renderings were guided by strong art direction and the ended up being remarkably similar to the final installation.
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Clayton Rise Real Estate – Amenity Building Plan View

Georgian Rowhome Rendering

Here’s a watercolour rendering of an elevation of a Georgian Rowhome for a the Vancouver based developer Mosaic Homes. This project will be selling later this year. Here’s a  link to their website & blog. http://taylor.mosaichomes.com/
Here’s a detail of an entry.

Wall Street Journal Wine Notes: A Gift for your Merchant

Here’s a spot illustration from the pre Christmas weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal to accompany the weekly wine column “Wine Notes”.

Beautiful Joe – Book Cover Illustration & Typography

This cover illustration for Beautiful Joe (Penguin Canada) was heaps of fun to complete. The story was written in the 1890’s by Canadian author Margaret Marshall Saunders but originally published under the name of Marshall Saunders.
The story was inspired by a real life dog who had been cruelly maltreated by his owner and was later taken [...]

Georgian House Architectural Rendering, Vancouver

This piece was just completed for a client who specializes in homes in the Georgian style. The homes are not yet build so great care was taken to authentically represent the artfully designed facade and carefully considered materials such as the transparent stained cedar shingle siding. www.tattonhouse.ca
This painting was completed in alkyd (fast drying) oil [...]

How The World Began – Oxford University Press Book Illustration – Part 1

Here are some illustrations I contributed to Oxford University Press’s Myths and Legends series due out early 2010. My story is called “Tagaloa’s Rock” and is featured on the cover as well as grayscale spots inside intermingled with large lettered text. It’s based on a Samoan creation myth and is retold by author Fiona MacDonald.
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How The World Began – Oxford University Press Book Illustration – Part 2

Here are some more illustrations I contributed to Oxford University Press’s Myths and Legends series due out early 2010. My story is called “Tagaloa’s Rock” and is featured on the cover as well as grayscale spots inside intermingled with large lettered text. It’s based on a Samoan creation myth and is retold by author Fiona [...]

Wolf Fables – Oxford University Press

These are some illustrations I contributed to Oxford University Press’s Myths and Legends series due out early 2010. My story is called “The Wolf and the Goat”.  The illo’s appear intermingled with large lettered text and are aimed at readers at the grades 3 and 4 levels. It’s based on the Aesop’s fable of the [...]

Colonial Rowhome Rendering

This illustrated elevation was completed for use in the marketing of a Rowhomes. The illo started its life as an architect’s line elevations and was redrawn with landscaping in place and completed in water colour.