NOUVELLE COUVERTURE...

always a wonderful surprise to receive something on a monday morning ...

... a semi-large, flattish package...

...delivered at my door....

....'nous sommes ce continent", écrit par pierre labrie et publié par éditeur soulières...

à paraître février 2012

available february 2012

JANUARY EXPERIMENTATION AND WORK IN PROGRESS...

besides the temperatures that hovered well below the freezing point these past few weeks, i've kept myself quite occupied with some new projects and alternating this with indoor running, meditation and heat-producing yoga...

wishing everyone a successful, dynamic and happy year of the dragon!

SKETCHBOOK/STUDIES

hello again!

as the year set off with temperatures well below

0º C and layers of powdery snow, i am following the bear to the green forest [who's preparing for a good bear winter sleep ;)

BONNES FETES! HAPPY HOLIDAYS! PRETTIGE FEESTEN!

happy holidays and wishing you an energetic,

dynamic and invigorating year of the dragon !

je vous souhaite joyeuses fêtes et une année

du dragon énergisante et dynamique!

❤

Suana

[click image to enlarge]

'T VOLK/THE PEOPLE/LA FOULE

after some time doing the fine precise architecture/animal drawings, it feels good to loosen up with these quick character wash studies.

except for one little face that is peeping out from behind a shoulder. can you see her ?

THE MORRAN BOOK PROJECT

camilla engman, the illustrators and the jury did a fantastic job getting this book off the ground. a truly, beautiful and loving tribute to a sweet, little super dog, morran.

the smaller morran book project, click here

[1 dog, 77 illustrations by illustrators all over the world - 80 pages]

the morran book project, click here

[1 dog, 236 illustrations by illustrators all over the world - 160 pages]

All profits will go to the WSPA - World Society for the protection of Animals - Sweden [WSPA international]

ROMANESCO...

this vegetable is such an enigma that it is called a romanesco cauliflower in the u.s and canada, a romanesco broccoli and a romanesco cabbage in germany. it is the most amazing chartreuse color and unlike hybrids like broccoflower and orange and purple cauliflower, it is a species unto itself. it demands photographing as much as cooking.

it's been cultivated in italy since the 16th century. the individual sections look very much like cauliflower, with the same texture, but once cooked and eaten, it is unmistakably akin to broccoli. so I read. but haven't eaten it. yet.

TIRED

sometimes menial tasks take over ...

here's a page from one of my older sketchbooks.

will be back with new work soon :)

MY NEIGHBOURHOOD [3]

during my many walks around the neighbourhood,

i notice myself halting, observing and admiring the

many decorative elements on facades, arched doorways,

fine lace translated into wood... and amongst all this

static history, busy squirrels prepare for a new season...

MY NEIGHBOURHOOD [2]

more snippets from the area i live...

MY NEIGHBOURHOOD

walking through this area, i am reminded of a time

of the past, an industrial past. and because of its colorful past,

a detail of an architectural decoration, a door, a window or

the corner of a street seems to want to whisper a story...