Holiday Window Murals

This year I'm moving from walls to windows to help decorate the town for the holiday season! Contact me via e-mail at cannscartoons@gmail.com or call (506) 878-3906

Lots of New Stuf

The cover page for my ebook. I posted a sample or two from this alphabet learning book a while back. You can buy it on your Kindle or any device with a Kindle App for only $0.99. Its full of  alphabetically organized creatures of all types.

Here is a character from my 2nd ebook. An Ol' Seagull with many a tale about life on the deep blue. The story is about a  young seagull who moves from the town dump, to the roof of the local shopping mall in search of a better life; but what he really wants is to find the ocean.  I am hoping to have it online and available for purchase within the next few weeks.

A commission I got from my facebook challenge I blogged about last week. This one is of  2 friends of mine, with a few inside jokes from our annual bass fishing trip to Ontario

And finally, a basket of vegetables for last, haha! This was done for a mural at a local food bank.

Self Portraits

This is a self portrait inspired by what I look like in the morning. My wife would probably agree. I recently heard that the average person thinks they are 6 times better looking than they really are. So I wanted to be realistic and included my less than flattering traits...Stretched out neck on my t-shirt, big ears, puffy eyes, neck hump, hair growing wild and untrimmed all over the place, dandruff and a classic rooster tail. After I drew this I noticed an unfortunate resemblance to the guy above.

This is a self portrait I did for a challenge my buddy put me up to. He challenged me to pay my rent by the profits I could generate through cartoon commissions. So I threw it up on facebook and it has been a great success so far. Very encouraging.

Blacktip Shark

A fun shark drawing inspired by something I learned during Shark Week. After countless shows about great white's breaching and biting seal decoys; don't get me wrong, I love great whites...but really... 15 shows in a row about them attacking seal decoys...come on Discovery. Anyway, I saw a show about Blacktips and apparently they are responsible for the majority of shark attacks world wide. I included a muted version to give the underwater affect. However, I think I like the Black and white version best.

 

What a Beaut!

This cranky old ex-con was inspired by a guy my brother and I shoveled snow with this past winter. He was as cranky, miserable and lazy as you could imagine. After what seemed to us like 4 heart attack scares, and half a shift, he quit.

Poster

Cougar Room

 The third room in the Magnetic Hill Zoo Education Center. It's a fantastic zoo, definitely worth checking out this summer!

The eagle is my favorite...can you tell?Haha. I like eagles so much I even have one tattooed on my shoulder, as white trash as an eagle tattoo may be, I like it.

Jaguar Room

This is the Jaguar Room mural. This is probably my personal favorite.I think it is the bold colors against the darker forest background that appeals so much to me. I loved painting the Jaguar pattern; such a beautiful animal!

Lion Room

We painted 3 murals in the zoo's education center. Each room is named after a big cat. This is the Lion Room mural...obviously. We have made some slight changes to some of the lions and added a Hornbill, but you can get the point.

                                               

Sea Turtle

 I painted this sea turtle on the wall in the Eco Dome, the exhibit of small primates and reptiles at the Magnetic Hill Zoo. My brother and I have just finished up a 7 mural project at the zoo and will be doing               more later in the summer. This was my first time attempting a realistic mural; I was pretty pleased with the results.