This past weekend was a busy one for VA; 2 outdoor art sales in 2 days.
So. First up: The U. of C. Park Sale on Saturday. Almost all of the VA guys were in attendance, except for Chris who had to stay home 'cause he's hard at work right now working on an ultra-cool, ultra-secret project...I'm not too sure what I can say about it just yet, but yes, it will be super-cool and it will be super-blow-your-mind.
But even without Chris' pale radiance brightening our booth, the day still managed to be a beautiful one. Behold -
Here's the mandatory Nick-and-Gord-setting-our-booth-up shot:
Nick had a few wardrobe malfunctions early on...but nothin' a little duct tape couldn't solve:
And here's the mandatory group shot. As you can see, there's a gaping Chris-sized hole to the left of us....that is, assuming Chris was shaped like a large...blob of some sort.
And here's Steve drawing people as zombies, while under an umbrella. And if you think THAT'S strange, well....you'd be correct:
Here's DJ Anthony (Gord's son) throwin' down some hardcore traxx at the public Learn-To-Deejay booth:
And here's our good friend Richard "Madgrifter" Barkman popping in for a quick group photo. Hi Maddy!:
And THIS was cool. The organizers had provided some spraypaint cans and set up some boards in the courtyard for people to just walk up to and start spraypainting during the day. Seriously, it was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Here's what the boards looked like near the beginning of the day:
And here they were at the end of the day (...you can't really see, but I duct-taped some branches and leaves on to the board on the far left, hee hee. It was awesome! AND artsy!):
Some of us even tried spraypainting the boards ourselves (on the backs of the boards, so as not to embarrass ourselves, heh heh). Here's Steve and Nick showing off their mad graffitti..."skillz":
And here's that same board a few hours later:
Seriously, the whole day was beautiful. Here's a pic of Gord, Nick and Vince chillin' and admirin' the beautiful scenery. It's so beautiful it almost looks like I fiddled with the levels in Photoshop...
And here we are waving goodbye to a wonderful day. See ya next year Park Sale!
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...AND IT DOESN'T STOP THERE!
Like the title says, this is the Summer of Sundays, so, yes, a few of us also went to hock our wares the very next day, Sunday, at Olympic Plaza.
Here's Nick, Gord and Anthony settin' our booth up once again:
And here's a pic from later in the day. The day was pretty quiet. And...I didn't realize this until just now, but if you look closely, it looks like Anthony aged about 20 years that day. sigh...they grow up so fast:
And here's a pic of Nick and Yours Truly, holdin' down the fort. Gord had to take off and the other guys couldn't make it, so it was up to the 2 of us to represent VA, and, I must say, we did it gorgeously:
Uhhh...okay, so maybe we're not gorgeous, heh heh. But seriously, check this out. Nick was doodling pics all day and I asked him if I could ink one - so he pencilled up this cool Iron Man. So I inked it - and then he told me I had to colour it too, haha, so here's the result of our collaboration:
If you want to see another coloured version of the pic, check Nick's blog. I couldn't decide which version was nicer, so his blog gets one and this blog gets one, heh heh. To be honest, I was very happy with how this pic turned out. Nick's wicked, dynamic shapes and my squiggly, little textures seemed to work pretty well together, so, if you haven't already read it on Nick's blog, Nick and I have agreed to work on a story together (him pencilling, me inking) for the upcoming VA book; a sci-fi themed anthology. Truly, it shall beeth the awesome.And, lastly, here's somethin' from Sunday that I doodled without pencils of any kind, heh heh:
Whew. See ya next Sunday!-CogNoman
