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“I am truly inspired by your art.”

Fan mail is a lovely thing, especially when “I am truly inspired by your art.” is the subject line. I was so pleased last week when a graphic design student named Asha Mody from the San Diego City College contacted me directly. Originally from India, Asha loved the styling of my mehndi-inspired patterned illustration.

After explaining to me that she was going to show my work to her art class, she asked for basic instruction on the steps involved in completing some of my past organic art pieces. In particular, she loved the following work, and decided to try our her own luck with the style using the techniques I had taught her. I have posted my original work first, followed by her inspired work below. Check out her graphic and web design here.

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Persistence Pays Off

Have you ever noticed how a child’s short attention span gives way to amazing persistence when the task is something she really wants; for example, learning to walk, tying a shoe, whistling a tune, batting a ball? And when the child falters at any of these tasks, the adults respond with encouragement, patience and applause for the effort.

The other day, the Dominican Sisters – Grand Rapids approached me interested in using a drawing that I did back in 2001 of a young girl learning to tie her shoe in their newsletter on persistence. This drawing appears in their May 2010 newsletter, available both in online and printed format.

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Welcome to the NEW SandyCanvas

Welcome to the NEW SandyCanvas! – Designed and developed by Steve Pell. You’ll notice that the old SandyCanvas website received a fresh re-design. I encourage you to browse the categories across the top, type in some search phrases of your favourite keyword topics and send me some comments and feedback.

As with any new re-design, please let me know if you come across any bugs or errors. I have attached a screen shot of the old site so that you can compare the look and feel of the shots across both formats.

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The Weekend to End Breast Cancer Poster

According to their 2009 campaign, The Weekend to End Breast Cancer ensures that “Breast Cancer is hard, walking isn’t“. Last September 2009, I participated in The Weekend to End Breast Cancer’s Toronto walk. This year the name of the event has changed to the Weekend to End Women’s Cancers. Click here to register for this year’s Toronto event.

The walk was a challenging 2-day adventure that was approximately 60 kilometres in length. Each walker raised a minimum of $2000 for a two-day walk or $1250 for a one-day walk in donations. My fiancee Steve Pell designed and built this beautiful poster to help raise awareness of my campaign, along with matching donation-style business cards to hand out to family and friends. The campaign was an amazing success thank you to the many efforts involved.

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Making a Cake with Homemade Fondant Icing

Love moulding Playdoh as a kid? I  have never decorated a cake using fondant before and was not too sure what to expect. After taking an interest in some of the cakes at some local decorating schools here in Toronto, I decided to read about the art of making your own homemade fondant.

I designed and built this cake as a celebration desert for my fiancee and my eight year anniversary of dating. I designed the cake with an outline of British Columbia on the top and a wrap around Vancouver city-scape on the side.

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