Tagged: mountain

Canyons in my stairs.

The slits in the steps allow the snow to fall and form these dramatic landscape without any human intervention.

The slits in the steps allow the snow to fall and form these dramatic landscape without any human intervention.

Before Christmas, we had several snow storms in a row, something which is not usual for Montréal, followed by two crazy cold waves (and now, everything has been melting for over a week, take that climate change deniers.) In itself, this is not very interesting or enjoyable but after one of the storms I found miniature canyons and mountains on my stairs. So after I shoveled the balcony, I went back in to get my camera. I think they are perfect references for dramatic landscapes. Now I’m not looking forward for the next snowstorm (especially with my broken foot in a cast) but when it comes, I hope I’ll get new miniature canyons to photograph.

A perfect snow mountain. The snow on my neighbor's shed (and a tiny snow pyramid on her planter!) and snow mountains on my neighbors' steps, but I wouldn't get there...

A perfect snow mountain. The snow on my neighbor’s shed (and a tiny snow pyramid on her planter!) and snow mountains on my neighbors’ steps, but I wouldn’t get there…

IMC 2011 day 7, the day of judgement

It’s already over, I have to get back to work monday and leave all these awesome passionate people behind, at least until next year.

So this is how far I’m taking my piece here, I’m going to have to work on it a lot more back home.

Don't worry, the horses WILL have manes and tails.

And here are happy artists working hard to make their piece as good as possible for the last day.

Beth Trott with her watercolours.

Drew Baker, always concentrated.

Dan Dos Santos doing a painting demo.

Dylan Sara, always smiling.

IMC 2011 day 6

This is going to be the last super intensive day of work, tomorow is cleaning up, more lectures, and celebration. Some people are starting to feel the strain of sleep deprivation.

Yesterday, we had lectures by Adam Rex and Jeff Mack who are both charming, funny, and children books writers and illustrators. Later we also had a lecture with Boris and Julie about flair and punch and making your paintings epic.

Here’s my progress so far.

How it looked like on day 5, past midnight.

Progress shot.

And here are busy bees in the digital room, last night at about 12:30.

And my modest work station. THe digital room tends to be pretty dark.

IMC 2011 day 5

Only 2 full days to work on my stuff! Yesterday we had great lectures by James Gurney on composition, Scott Allie with a crash course on comic, and Greg Manchess on his art and influences. After that I was able to watch Rebecca Guay  and Greg paint. I still managed to work on my piece a little.

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IMC 2011 day 4

Yesterday we had a super lecture intensive day with Peter de Sève who showed us his work and walked us through his career. After that we got to hear (and see) Mo Willems explain how he structures and writes stories for children. He also showed us how to draw a pigeon.

In the evening we got to see James Gurney’s color and light and I was thinking it would be a repeat from last year but he managed to tie it into what we are working on and to insert new material. That’s alsways very inspiring.

So here’s where I am now, the progress is going to slow down a lot now that I get to render and nail anatomy.

IMC 2011 day 3

Here’s what I’m starting with this morning, after hard work and help from Scott Fischer, Iain McCaig and Greg Manchess.