Chalk kitchen octopus!

So, one of the walls in the kitchen at home is covered in chalkboard paint, and every month or so I spend about an hour drawing something on it with chalk to liven up the place a bit.
So, a couple weeks back I drew a Giant Pacific Octopus creeping out from behind the fridge.

Deception

 Octopus 1/3

 1/3 of a narrative piece about deception and fraud.
I chose to do a series of images dealing with an octopus partly because it's my favorite animal EVER and so much fun to draw, and because I think it really embodies the idea of deception.

If you would like to see all 3 images in the series, go check out my website at: http://www.behance.net/OctopusIllustration

Royal Ontario Museum Sketchapalooza 2013!

I call him 'Hank'

And in order from top to bottom, Olga,  Peter, and Christina

And here we have Jennifer and Stuart.

I visited the R.O.M. in Toronto last week with my good friend, the lovely and very talented Michelle Moniz (visit her blog at http://michatah.tumblr.com/   ! Go on, it's okay, I'll wait. Back now? Cool, huh? Now where where we? Oh, right! DINOSAURS.) and spent the day drawing dinosaur skeletons (again). I could have easily spent another couple days in those rooms alone drawing, but I got some good sketches from that trip.

In other news, I'm working on another dinosaur painting, this time I'm doing a male velociraptor!
Just finished roughing out the basics last night, so hopefully this one won't take quite so long as the T-rex did!