Illustration Friday - Haunt

Based on an older photo of the great American writer Joyce Carol Oates, many of her stories and characters will haunt you for a very long time

Illustration Friday - Water

I have hit a lot of golf balls into the water on this hole. This is the 6th hole at Victoria Park East golf course in Guelph, Ontario

Illustration Friday Mirror

An idea stolen from one of my favourite painters, Rene Magritte

Illustration Friday - Book

The book I'm currently reading is "The Story of the Night" by the wonderful Irish writer Colm Toibin

Illustration Friday - Swamp

Not sure of the difference between a swamp and a marsh, this is loosely based on a photo of Rattray Marsh in Mississauga, Ontario

Illustration Friday - Shades

I wasn't planning to do another portrait of Tom Waits but then I saw this poster for Record Store Day http://www.recordstoreday.com/CustomPage/1304 - you need to scroll down a bit to see the poster - and then I saw the Illustration Friday topic so I really had no choice, this is a quick sketch with 2 shades of blue marker on an old piece of glossy paper I had lying around

Illustration Friday - Intention

Perhaps the greatest example of good intentions going horribly wrong was Prohibition in the US in the 1920's. It led to violence and the establishment of organized crime on a huge scale. I'm just catching up on season 2 of the excellent - though excessively violent - HBO series Boardwalk Empire starring the great actor Steve Buscemi

I wasn't entirely happy with the ink version of this so I went at it with some markers, I like this version a little better