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GTB Toronto and Montreal HQ Mural installed and embedded with loads of easter eggs.

Written by . Posted on July 17, 2019. Filed under Drawings, Design, Murals. Tagged , , , . Comments Off on GTB Toronto and Montreal HQ Mural installed and embedded with loads of easter eggs..
GTB’s visual brand manifesto measures 123″ tall by 296″ wide.

This project for GTB Toronto and Montreal was definitely one of our top 5 projects of this year so far. Working closely with the Executive Creative Director, Yasmin Sahni, we created this multi-layered of crazy fun artwork that’s embedded with a ton of easter eggs including subtle nods to great artists like Keith Haring, Alex Colville, Ai Weiwei, Edward Hopper, The Toronto Raptors, and more. This massive illustration can actually be taken apart as each component is its own entity. Here’s one piece extracted for fun. It’s called ‘The Running Building”.

The Running Building. One of hundreds of elements that make up this giant GTB mural.

Here’s a closer look at the mural broken up into two parts.

First half of the mural for a closer look.
Second half of the mural for a closer look.

It was extra nice to be able to work with Frank Turner again, the owner of Clockwork Productions in Toronto. I used to work with Frank way back in the early 2000s when I was an art director working in Toronto. Frank and his team always pull through in spades, so when I knew they were handling the production, I was more than thrilled. Project Management at the studio by Aiken Lao.

Check out more snaps of the mural that we pulled from social.

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Salt Spring Island Diaries. Our art installation in 5 days on this beautiful property.

Written by . Posted on May 13, 2019. Filed under Drawings, Blogging, Murals. Tagged , , , , . Comments Off on Salt Spring Island Diaries. Our art installation in 5 days on this beautiful property..
A shot of the kitchen area art installation.

This art installation project is hands down one of our most favourite projects of 2019. The weather was perfect and the property we were on was spectacular to the say the least. We were working inside this amazing custom home (glass doors all around that slide open on all sides!) sitting on over 100 acres of land surrounded by tall pines and a little lake out front was straight out of a postcard. When we arrived we were greeted by the workers on site and Andrew Latreille, the talented architectural photographer that Patrick flew out from Vancouver to document our art installation process for the week.

Day 1.

Arriving on the property the first day.

A few snaps of the main house and the gorgeous guest house just 100 metres away sitting in the field of grass surrounded by tall pines and a valley.

Day 1 started late. We didn’t arrive on location until 2pm. Once in the house, I started sketching out both illustrations with a chalk on one hand and the print out of the art on my other hand. The entire sketching process took about 2 hours. While I chalked, Denise, Aiken and Audrey (yes, even our kid came!) went to check in at our AirBnB 15 min. away from the site.

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Mural project for Powers Construction out in Salt Spring Island.

Written by . Posted on May 7, 2019. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , . Comments Off on Mural project for Powers Construction out in Salt Spring Island..

Our first hand-painted mural of the year takes us to Salts Spring Island for Powers Construction. We are extra giddy about this one because the home we are painting in is insanely beautiful and the guest house is literally straight out of Dwell Magazine (we’ll publish those photos once it’s officially published through Dwell). We’re all stocked up on our art supplies for our trip out there tomorrow at the crack of dawn. We will be there for the rest of the week and the weather is looking promising.

All scattered with all our shit.

Earlier in the day, I had to go pick up some camera gear from the award winning architectural photographer, Andrew Latreille to take to Salt Spring so he doesn’t have to lug all that gear on the plane. Really stoked that Patrick got him to shoot our process.

We were able to cram all our paints in the secret compartment under the trunk space!
All the boxes of paint and art supplies are all neatly hidden underneath in the huge underfloor storage. Well done BMW!

Black Bean design agency’s mural: An illustrated map of Kelowna.

Written by . Posted on March 6, 2019. Filed under Drawings, Murals. Tagged , , , . Comments Off on Black Bean design agency’s mural: An illustrated map of Kelowna..

Excited to share our latest mural work for Black Bean Creative, a creative design agency based Kelowna. This mural is an illustrated map of Kelowna packed with hidden fun easter eggs. It was so fun working on this guy! Here are a few close ups of this intricate map. Photos by Jon Adrian.
Project management by Aiken Lao.

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Pacific North Weave Mural timelapse video.

Written by . Posted on October 12, 2018. Filed under Murals. Tagged , , , . Comments Off on Pacific North Weave Mural timelapse video..

Pacific North Weave Timelapse video

A short but fun time-lapse video of the mural we created in collaboration with Six Hundred Four and EVO CarShare. The mural is located at 160 Water St. in Gastown Vancouver. This was a real fun piece to create as no projectors were used due to the weird location being at the entry and exit point of a parkade. Instead, we used a grid system and free handed the entire piece using Molotow markers. The mural took 2-3 days assisted by Aiken Lao and Mo from EVO.
Video was shot, cut and edited by the good folks at EVO Car Share.

Happy Friday everyone!

Weaving The Pacific North Weave Mural in Gastown, Vancouver.

Written by . Posted on September 30, 2018. Filed under Blogging, Murals. Tagged , , , . Comments Off on Weaving The Pacific North Weave Mural in Gastown, Vancouver..

Weaving seemingly kinetic acrylic white lines to create this mural of beautiful Vancouver in Gastown called ‘Pacific North Weave’ was loads of fun. The first-ever collaboration with Six Hundred Four + Evo Car Share to celebrate Vancouver’s vibrant culture.

This particular mural was created without using projectors due to the odd location being at the exit point of a parkade. Instead, I opted to use a simpler approach which was to use a simple gridding system to build the general composition. Once the basic structure of the piece was done, I freehanded the entire piece. Big thanks to my assistant Aiken Lao and Mo from EVO!

I’ve created several versions of this piece and the second version is a hand drawn 60” x 40” illustration on a custom wooden canvas that’s hung at the beautiful gallery like a sneaker shop across the street at Six Hundred Four.

The illustration has also taken life as sneakers with four styles to chose from which you can now pre-order.

These shots are actually screen grabs from a video that we’ll be releasing tomorrow shot by the talented cinematographer Trevor Lang from Timelapse Films.

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Thank you Jeff for the newsletter feature on Booooooom!

Written by . Posted on August 31, 2018. Filed under Press, Blogging. Tagged , , . Comments Off on Thank you Jeff for the newsletter feature on Booooooom!.

Happy to see the Mega Marvel Mural piece get some shine on Booooooom’s newsletter this morning. Thanks Jeff!