If you’re in Toronto this weekend, come and visit my booth at Plaid Tidings Art Show and Sale,
where I will be showing my work and wares. In preparation for this event, I’ve been busy working on
new illustrations, holiday cards and a new product, a 2011 calendar that I’ll be revealing for the first
time this weekend. Here’s a little preview of some of the newest illustrations as well as some of the
process work that went into creating them.

The show takes place at Branksome Hall, at 10 Elm Ave.
Click to see the map from the Yonge and Rosedale subway station.

Hope to see you there!

Like so many people who visit Windmills Cafe in Kingston, I love going to see the art exhibited
there with works from fabulous artists like Sally Milne and Mark Graham. That’s why I’m so
excited to announce that this October, Windmills is exhibiting my fashion illustrations!
The artwork will be on display all month, so there’s still lots of time to go and check it out!

If you are interested in any of the work that you see here or at Windmills,
please contact me at alex@alexperlin.com

Here is a little peak at some of the work that you will see on display:

As the weather begins to turn cool, most of us start thinking about getting cozy and wearing more layers. I love fall; Especially the clothes and was so excited to be asked to do an illustration for the Fall 2010 issue of Off The Map. My piece is on page 113 and illustrates a lovely poem about the season, written by Brooke Manning. You can see the whole issue online at: www.otmzine.com.

I’ve just wrapped up a few busy weeks of art shows with Fanfayr in Kingston on the July long weekend and Fantasy in the Forest this past weekend. The shows were both amazing! (Pictures are coming soon!) They gave me a chance to show some of my newest work, including this recently completed series inspired by the classic board game, Clue.

I was so excited to work with the colours represented by the players/suspects and developed my own film noir inspired versions of each one.
I just love the texture and drama in the fashion from this era. If you know the game, you’ll recognize the weapons and rooms shown in each painting. Hope you like the finished product!

Father’s Day is this Sunday and I’ve been working hard to add to my selection of cards for men! The illustrations
are a combination of hand-drawn artwork as well as some digitally rendered pieces. As always, all of the cards are
printed on FSC certified papers.

The cards are available for order through the Shop Page and I will be making local deliveries in Kingston
this Friday and Saturday. You can also pick up select cards in downtown Kingston at Dwell Boutique,
Card’s Bakery and at the In the Art of the City Gallery at 122 Princess St.

Have a very happy father’s day!

Today the latest issue of Off The Map came out including a feature about my illustration work! I’m so excited!
You can take a closer look and see the whole issue at: otmzine.com.

I’m so excited, because tonight I will be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Creative Arts at
the Alumni Show! Creative Arts is a high school focus program in fine art and is taught by
Karen Peppercorn. I took the program when I was in Grade 11 and was thrilled to be invited
to be a part of the exhibit this year. It also seemed like a great opportunity to show off some
of the paintings from my newest series of fashion illustrations, the Fashion Alphabet.
Here’s a preview:

Beyond the alumni component of the exhibit, current students of the program are also
showing their work from the year. This isn’t your typical student show, because the work is
really amazing. The location is 122 Princess St. in Kingston and it runs until June 20th.

With the long weekend behind us, it feels like its officially summer. And summer means weddings season.
I love weddings! Not just because they are romantic and festive, but also because of the possibilities
for design. I’ve been working on a few wedding projects over the winter and here’s one that incorporated
a whole range of printed pieces. I photographed the pieces in the couple’s amazing garden. The groom,
Terry worked tirelessly to bring the garden to life. The space was both the setting for the wedding and
the inspiration for the invitation design.

Bicyclette.to

For a really refreshing approach to fashion blogging check out Bicyclette.to. Paige Boersma, A.K.A. Miss Bicyclette,
started this blog as a way to get customers involved in the process of developing her retail boutique, Bicyclette.
Paige asks her readers for their feedback on creative concepts and fashion finds. Now, she’s using that feedback
to create a tailor-made retail experience.

Bicyclette.to also offers a peak into the world of retail buying. I was lucky enough to visit Vegas with Paige this February,
where I got to see this process first-hand. Paige has an amazing sense of style that combines Parisian romance with
graphic edge in a very wearable way. You can check out some pieces from this summer’s collection on her blog now.
And make sure to stay tuned to the site, because she’ll be launching her online store this spring!

This semester at Ryerson, each student was assigned the task of creating an
elaborate flash website for our New Media course. Animating my drawings was the
ultimate illustration project and it was so cool to watch this website come to life.
After a lot of hard work and after making a lot of unsuccessful out-of-control
clocks, I conquered flash and this is what I came up with.

Click Here to visit the Tick-Tock History website.

The idea for this site came from my fourth year thesis project that was all about
memory, nostalgia and keepsake objects. Greeting cards were the starting point for
my research, but as the year went on, I started looking at modern incarnations of
keepsakes like Polaroids, movie posters, video games, out-of-date computers,
and cell phones.

Just looking at objects like these can take you back to another time and place.

So, to get some perspective on the modern keepsake, I decided to make a history
website that tells the story of these objects and where they came from. The site
also gives a bit of background on major historical events of the twentieth century.
Obviously, no one likes a boring history lesson, so the website needed to be
interactive and fun. It features illustrated and animated clocks that connect
to videos that I created of decades from 1900 through to 1990.

Visit the site at: http://stw.ryerson.ca/~aperlin/ticktockhistory.html