My Vintage Avenue

Just found this cool blog My Vintage Avenue. I was lucky enough to stick my face into twitter for a second and grab this little gem that illustrator Ward Jenkins tweeted. Sweet Tweet!

Check it out!

Lisa Cinar Interview :)

Yes, so basically... this is an interview with ...me:)

Phil Johnston who took my class last summer wanted to interview me for a personal project of his and I was lucky enough to get him to send me this really well edited video of it that he made. I had forgotten about it for a while but now I found it again and even though I am of course a huge nerd in it, I do think that it came out quite interesting. A lot of that is of course Phil's doing, because if he didn't put those cuts where they are, it would just be me rambling on for hours and hours.... ;)

Also, I'd like to mention that the drawings you see me doing in the video are part of my 'character development exercise' where the point is to draw as many different characters in as little time as possible, so don't judge;)

Julie Morstad Book Launch

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Book Launch

You are invited to join us for the launch of this fantastic new book by Sara O'Leary, illustrated by Julie Morstad!

Monday November 7, 2011 • 7pm

Christianne's Lyceum of Literature and Art

3696 West 8th Avenue on the corner of Alma Street

Proclamation!

Yes!!!

The colours of Marcel Dzama

Last week I asked my students in one of the classes I teach to make their own drawing tool, or to create their own colours. In other words, create something that will give you a line, or a colour not just everyone can buy by walking into an art supply store. The lines you use in your work, the patterns you make and the colours you choose can become part of the thing that will eventually become our 'style' as visual artists. I remember while still in school myself loving the work of Marcel Dzama and seeing all of his shows with the Royal Artlodge Collective here in Vancouver at the beautiful and now gone Atelier Gallery. I remember writing a paper on his work and being thrilled when I found out he added Root Beer to his colour to create the consistent braun/green tones in his work. I wondered how the galleries representing him felt about this since it would definitely affect the longevity of his work, and which made me like him even more.

So here is some of his work. Notice the importance colour plays here in the overall style of work.

Here are some blog posts regarding a newer show of his at the David Zwirner Gallery in N.Y.

Fall is in full swing

Here is something that I found online by my favorite Marc Boutavant. Reminded me of when I was walking in the park earlier on. Fall is happening again. Tick Tock, tick tock....

Mary Blair 100th Birthday!

Yay! Google gave Mary Blair props today by including her in the Google icon with links. Cool! It's crazy that this woman was born 100 years ago already. Time flies! I had kind of forgotten all about her and I'm glad that I was kindly reminded of her work by the Googlers. Thanks! :)

Check out her work, cuz it's awesome!

Magic of Mary Blair site

Japanese exhibition on her work

Magic Jelly Blog entry on her