FrankenFUN

Good Monday morning good people of the interweb. Here is a watercolour I painted for my boy’s room. I feel like this most of the time. A kid trapped in an adult body.

I'll continue to post both on blogspot and my site until I get the site up and running. Once the website is running properly I'll be switching over to wordpress for any new posts. I'll update you on that as it happens.

Hey Folks

The redirect to from cardboardtreehouse.com to cardboardtreehouse.blogspot.com will be down as we’re getting my new site up and running. If you’ve visited and you’ve noticed some odd changes in the look and layout of the website it is due to my work with WordPress. So please be patient as I work on updating and refining the site. I have lots of goodies in store so stay tuned. More information coming soon. Thanks for stopping by.

Fun with H2O

A little experiment in water colour (or color for our American friends) that I painted for my wife. Could make a nice greeting card.

Paper Craft Work in Progress

This is my first pass on a concept I'm working on. Good times.

Update: I am no longer updating this blog as I have moved to my new website cardboardtreehouse.com I'll be adding new paper craft, illustrations, animation, and other offers on the new site. Feel free to pop over and have a look around. Thanks for your interest in my work.

Joel's Paper Craft Dragon

Sometime ago a good artist and friend of mine, Joel Duggan drew this awesome dragon. I thought it was pretty cool so I took a stab at making it into a paper craft. This was my first attempt at taking a flat image and sculpting it with paper. I was and still am happy with how he turned out.

In other news, Joel produces a weekly webcomic about dating called Starcrossed and he is co-host of a very entertaining podcast called the Digital Dating Podcast. Both things are really worth taking the time to check out. Your funny bone may just thank you.

It looks like my posts are becoming more regular so I'm going to keep this up and have a new post up every Monday.

Until then see you around.

Update: I am no longer updating this blog as I have moved to my new website cardboardtreehouse.com I'll be adding new paper craft, illustrations, animation, and other offers on the new site. Feel free to pop over and have a look around. Thanks for your interest in my work.

CooCoo Paper Craft

Here is my latest paper craft.

It is a CooCoo Clock that I made for my son's room. I'm pretty happy with the results. What do you think?

Update: I am no longer updating this blog as I have moved to my new website cardboardtreehouse.com I'll be adding new paper craft, illustrations, animation, and other offers on the new site. Feel free to pop over and have a look around. Thanks for your interest in my work.

be mime pop-up card and free template

So just incase you haven't gotten to the card store yet and you have access to a computer and you have some card stock handy (I mean who doesn't have tons of card stock in their house?) here is a few snaps of my "be mime" pop-up card.

I've also included a template of the card that you can print out and do. NOTE: This is a free template for personal use only. It may not be reprinted for any commercial use or for profit.

I think the directions are clear and it should be pretty straight forward to do. If you have any questions just drop me a line. My contact info is on my profile page.

Happy V day to one and all. More goodness coming soon.

Update: I am no longer updating this blog as I have moved to my new website cardboardtreehouse.com I'll be adding new paper craft, illustrations, animation, and other offers on the new site. Feel free to pop over and have a look around. Thanks for your interest in my work.

Happy Valentine's Day

This is my pop-up paper card I made for Valentine's Day. Another fun little project. I'll make the template available here later today. For now, here is a little video.

Update: I am no longer updating this blog as I have moved to my new website cardboardtreehouse.com I'll be adding new paper craft, illustrations, animation, and other offers on the new site. Feel free to pop over and have a look around. Thanks for your interest in my work.

Pop-up Birthday for my boy

Here is the pop-up birthday card I made for my son's 1st birthday party. We had a bunch of family and friends here yesterday (in the house and on skype) for a party for him and he had a really good time. He's one so I guess anytime is a good time when your schedule consists of eating, playing and sleeping.

In the card he is wearing an old set of pajama's that he has long outgrown but they were a favorite of his mothers. The chair is based off of his high chair but I didn't realize until I had the card completed that the oval on the back of the chair looks like a red halo. He is a cross of a monster and an angel anyway so that kind of works.

More stuff coming in the future but thanks for stopping by.

Update: I am no longer updating this blog as I have moved to my new website cardboardtreehouse.com I'll be adding new paper craft, illustrations, animation, and other offers on the new site. Feel free to pop over and have a look around. Thanks for your interest in my work.

Mr. Monocle (100th post)

Here is another painting that I did for my son's first birthday. This also is my 100th post on cardboardtreehouse.com I be sure to post more often with the aim of getting to the next 100 posts in a more timely fashion. I really had some fun with this fella, I think I'll make him into a sculpture sometime when I have an opportunity. This was my first painting in some time. I painted him with acrylic paint on a 8X8 canvas. Hope you enjoy him. I'll be doing more paintings over the next little while so check back soon.

Septopod

Here is one of two paintings that I've done for my son's first birthday. Cute little Septopod painted with acrylic paint on a small 4X6 canvas.

this cowboy is thirsty

This little guy wants his sarsaparilla.

why can't we be friends?

I went to a great event on Sunday called Podcamp Halifax. Great time with lots of information on social media and I met a great cross section of people from all over the place. While at the podcamp I had my handy dandy sketchbook with me and jotted down some ideas and I did it up on the 'ol computer last night. Fun characters that I might animate later on.

Mime

No particular reason for this image. Was doing a warm up and it turned into this.