I found The Big Book — Hallelujah!
Way back in ’09 I was asked to contribute some pieces to a mammoth compendium of contemporary illustration by Martin Dawber
Pencil Portraits of Canadian Industry Leaders
Portraits of some of Canada’s leaders of industry for a corporate client, including one former Governor General.
Rosemary Architectural Rendering – Mosaic Single Family Homes
Client: Mosaic Single Family Homes / Solo Homes
Project: Rosemary; oil painting of elevation with landscaping
Back in the Studio and Hard at Work!
Hi All, we’re back from Christmas holidays and our trip to the Azores. I’m refreshed and hard at work again. I’ve returned a complete advocate for these beautiful volcanic islands in the Atlantic. We only visited one, Sao Miguel, but we managed to hike or drive the entire coast and criss-cross the centre of the ...
Victoria Single Family Homes Street Elevation
Client: Mosaic Single Family Homes
Project: Victoria
Happy Halloween!
Cat bus from Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro by wife & a plum blossom by myself.
Illolab Featured in Creative Quarterly – Fall 2010
Some of my illo work has just been included in the current issue of Creative Quarterly, The Journal of Art & Design. Issue N0. 20 is on news stands now. My work for the Teti’Aroa project in French Polynesia can be found on page 54. There’s heaps of other great art, design, illustration and photography ...
Paradise Found – Illustrations in Context
A large amount of my work tends to be for print or exhibit use. Invariably portfolio samples of my work I display online are divorced from the context of their final surroundings.
The Royal Mail Delivers!
Last week I had a pleasant surprise in the mail. Rather than bills and take-out menus a couple of print samples from Oxford University Press arrived. I contributed some illustrations too a couple of books published earlier this year from their Tree Tops series. It’s nice to see the illustrations in context. Here are the samples ...
Watercolour on Paper
This is a water colour rendering for a client from earlier this Spring. I don’t find myself doing too much work in “real” mediums like water colour or oils anymore. Timelines and budgets have dictated other solutions.
Iron & Whyte Architectural Rendering – Vancouver
Client: Mosiac Homes
Project: Architectural Rendering/Illustration of White Brick Homes, Point Grey, Vancouver
Illolab is an Applied Arts Illustration Annual Winner
Scott Plumbe and illolab has won in the architectural illustration category of the 2010 Applied Arts Illustration Annual
The Tiger Takes Tea!
This is one of a couple of recent sketches from the same series as the Fox character. It features his valet, the Tiger, taking tea with a dubious Snow Leopard character in a Tibetan café in Kathmandu.
