G20 Redux–the face of an anarchist

Anarchist Pronunciation:/’anekist/ noun Canadian political straw man used by politicians and police to justify abuse of power. Empty word to describe anyone they are afraid of. See: citizen —————————————————————————————- Want to see one of the G20 “anarchists”? Still unconvinced about the abuse of power that took place here in Toronto last year? Listen to John [...]

Oh look … another Blue jay!

Your going to get tired of Blue jays soon. This is my fourth attempt at doing a full colour ink drawing. Let me tell you, it’s not as easy as it sounds. Not sure why, but trying to feather in blue is incredibly difficult – the shadows and highlights just don’t cooperate. It’s not hard [...]

Song birds and ink pens

I tackled a blue jay today. Well, not really, I tackled the task of sketching one in pen and ink. As with my previous ones, I’ve used an earlier drawing and fleshed it out with nib pen and ink. I used Winsor & Newton’s Nut Brown ink this time. Very similar to the Peat Brown, [...]

Support blog post – hard drives and privacy

Just put up a new post at the Support Blog – Hard drives, privacy and what you can do with them. Looking at the problems of disposing of your old hard drive or USB drive but still protect yourself. Twitter This Usuario: Password:

More Pen and ink birds

I’ve been playing with different nibs with my pen and ink birds. I’ve been switching between large nibs and ultra fine ones to get a nice shadowing and feathering effect. Today, I redid a little pencil sketch of a Beswick Wren I drew about 2 years ago. I used a couple of nibs, primarily a [...]

Anarchists and Pinkos? Who are we trying to kid?

There has been much breast beating and blame laying in the aftermath of the Vancouver riots this week. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Roberston and the Vancouver police laid the blame on anarchists – a catch-all Canadian chimera, and of course the ubiquitous criminal element. “There had been absolutely no signs of this coming,” … “Both during [...]

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