Jason Blower

>Allot of things have happened since I have last posted so this is going to be a bigger one.

First, I am happy to annouce that the Canadian Lung Association stamp is now featured on their website here and here. So make sure that you donate today and receive some of these stamps for your presents. And I want to thank Janis Hass for the opportunity.

Secondly A new poster show is up at Latitude 53, put together by a fellow illustrator in Edmonton, Gabe Wong. The theme for the show is “where are we going?” and this is the piece that I did for it and some quick iphone photos of the show.

And Thirdly
Prints are going really well at Vivid print, Thank you all for your support. I am currently working on Two new series, one is a follow up to the Edmonton Series, Edmonton II. The second is a Christmas series, I know a little early, but these ideas came from another project and lent so well to a painting series, I just wanted to paint them. I am participating in Art Walk this year and it is my goal to have them all painted by them, wish me luck!

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Recently I send off my Edmonton paintings with some modifications to a be printed as postcards. I was not sure how they were going to look, yet when they arrived I liked the bite sized versions. Vivid print also liked them and suggested that I send some their way to sell in the store, since they always are asked if they have Postcards of Edmonton. I am happy to report that about a dozen of them have sold already.

Also I was contacted to do a portrait for a retirement present. After some inquiries and emails I found out he loves the river valley in Edmonton. Perfect!! I like painting it. So I painted some of the landmarks, trees and river. This is the photo of it with out the portrait, I thought it would make for a good print.

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Just this last month many of my friends and family have been receiving their catalogs from our favorite outdoorsy store Mountain Equipment Co-op. With in these fantastic pages is a spread of a painting I was asked to do for them. I had for many years worked for MEC while in school for illustration, so it feels cyclical to have now painted for them. It was a great honor to work for them in both instances, and hope to do more in the future with them.

My good friend Leroy Schultz photographed the painting for me too.

>Late 2010 Janine at Uppercase invited me to illustrate an article for the eight issue of her quarterly magazine. The article was about our fascination with the scale of object and our relationship with them. I had just come back from Burbank, where I had stayed near the Hollywood walk of fame. While I was there I saw Ray Harryhausen’s star, so I ran with the idea of a puppet master with his small stage.

>Great news, last week I finished an illustration for Mountain Equipment Co-op. Judy contacted me, we had corresponded some time ago and thought of me when they were commissioning some illustration. I was pumped about doing it and now it is view able on the MEC Blog here. In addition, she asked me to do an illustration for their cataloge shipping out in March. I’d love to show it but, I’ll have to wait till it is out.

>I just picked up the most recent Edmonton edition of Avenue Magazine with my illustrations for an article about the cities plans to revitalize several neighborhoods near the downtown core. It was a neat assignment where I was able to paint out more of Edmonton’s landmarks. Thanks to Avenues art director Rodrigo Orozco.

>Okay I have two bits of new information. First I am participating in Work/Life 2, a wonderful catalog of Canadian creative talent. Watch for a release/show coming in February!! Click here to check out Uppercase, the publisher of the book and subscribe to the magazine too!!

Secondly I working on new limited edition silkscreen of this new illustration of mine, called “Alpine Hiker.” Watch for it on my etsy shop.

>Something that has been sitting in my sketchbook, thought I would bring it out.

>So I heading off to Burbank this coming week for CTNX. I am really excited about who I might meet and what I will learn. This I think is the second annual of the event and I hope it continues to grow and more people get involved. With me, I am taking a bunch of sample brochures/portfolios to spreed out. Click here if you want to look at the dummied down pdf.

>Here are some digital roughs for a series that I have been sketching about for a while now. I hope to have them all together and submit as a proposal to a local ski shop as a mural on the side of their building.