My Vancouver Olympics Photos

Vancouver Olympics Rap-Up

Final Medal Results:  USA 37  -   Germany 30  -  Canada  26  -   Norway 23  -  Austria 16
(See the final results here)

What an amazing experience the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was!  The city had an amazing vibe with people partying in the streets and singing 'O Canada' on the seabus!  With Canada wining more Gold medals than any other country and winning the most Golds ever for Winter Olympics, I couldn't be happier!

One of the most amazing experiences was actually going and watching an event.  I was lucky enough to get tickets to the last night of Short Track Speed Skating and witness Canada winning two golds (Thanks Craig and Lady R!)   Another post will cover that soon.

But it's not the medals, not even the sport.  It' was the patriotism and the party.  It was something special...

If you haven't seen Stephen Brunt video essay on the Games, it sums up perfectly my feelings:




With the final Hockey Game won (most amazing game EVER!) and the Closing Ceremonies over, we turn our attention to the Paralympic Games!  Next Saturday, I'll be going to my first Sledge Hockey game.  I'll tell you all about it later...

Vancouver 2010 ... What fun!

Live Blogging: Olympic Edition 8

 

Liveblogging finishes for today - after a bunch of late nights enjoying the downtown festivities, intense and stressful Olympic action, and hours of drawing, inking and photoshopping.  Just really too tired to focus.  Craig is tired too.  He just lost his Therizinosaur's body - comically leaving legs, claws, and a head floating in space.  (As I type, he has already mended most of the damage but subbing in an older dinosaur's body and playing with it.)

Above is my first attempt at colouring using photoshop. The effect was unexpected and kinda works - enough for me to keep playing with it!  If anyone has any suggestions or tips in colouring digitally, let me know!  Thanks!

So that's it for now, I'm off to bed.  Liveblogging 3 will continue another day!  Stay tuned...

Live Blogging: Olympic Edition 7

 

  

A late update, but real progress here.  I've managed to finish up the inking to an extent that I am happy with.  Now I'll be experimenting with colouring in photoshop...  wish me luck!

Quite the smackdown, theropod on theropod!  Leaving the alioramus with some intense gashes on his face - would he survive?

After Canada suffered a loss to China in curling, Craig entered a period of depression, transmitting all his remaining energy into colouring (texturing) his therizinosaur.  The resulting collapse and explosion of creativity on his part has created a beautiful grey-green-orange coat of scales!  Check it out here.

Live Blogging: Olympic Edition 6

Ok, I'm over the loss of Canada to USA, so back to updating the progress of this Therizinosaur. 

Since the game is over, Craig and I have both been making lots of progress on our pieces.  Here is Craig's progress.  As you can see, most of the ink detailing is done on the therizinosaur.  I have only his right leg to place and ink. 

Craig as become stressed again as Canadian curlers are loosing 4-2 to China.  But M&Ms and Lady R's delicious dinner helped.  Dishes time. 

Next is to finish all the ink details, then get a good scan.  I'm going to try to colour it in photoshop, which will make good liveblog-reading as I've never tried it before!  But that is one of the bonuses of having photoshop-savy Craig! 

Live Blogging: Olympic Edition 5

Too sad to post.  Canada lost.  Also no work progress to show.  Well done, Miller.

Live Blogging: Olympic Edition 4

 

 

End of the second period now, with USA up 3-2 on Canada...  yeah, the game is certainly distracting Craig and I from our liveblogging.  He modeled toes and an arm, and I inked a foot.  Not a lot completed.  The stress level is high and our voices are horse...

Go Canada...

Live Blogging: Olympic Edition 3

So here are the inks starting, and I'm liking the cartoony feel of it.  I'm not sure if I'll paint it or not - maybe use watercolours?  Any suggestion?

Olympic update:  Canada won silver in speed skating!!!

Now Hockey has started and both Craig and I are incredibly distracted.  And nervous!  USA is up 2-1 at the end of the first, so Canada needs to step up and put pressure on... 

Art.

Hockey!!!!!

So far, Craig forgot to add a knee and I missed a toe my therizinosaur's foot - so things are going great!  Stay tuned for more fun...


Therizinosaur: Coloured or not coloured?

Live Blogging: Olympic Edition 2

We've flipped over to 300 m speed skating - to Craig's shegrin.  4 Canadians are in this contest, so I'm stoaked!  The Swiss just won two points in curling, so Craig is freaking out.  Beyond that, he is currently working on the proportions of his dino's leg.  I'm beginning inking my drawing...

Go Cindy Klassen in speed skating!!!!

Live Blogging: Olympic Edition 1

Finally, the time has come for Craig and I to sit down together and do our joint-liveblogging extravaganza!

With him on his computer and me on mine, and the Olympics on TV, we are ready to settle in to many hours of Therizinosaur art.  Currently, curling is on - Canada vs Switzerland, and Craig is incredibly tense.  He keeps yelling out exclamation.  Personally, I'm more of a hockey guy, so I am looking forward to today's epic Canada vs USA game (begins in an hour and a half!!!!)

So this time around, I'll be blogging the creation of a therizinosaur in action.  They have these wonderfully long claws which would have been used for food-gathering along with defense.  This piece will (hopefully) illustrate a Therizinosaurus cheloniformis defending himself against an attaching Alioramus remotus.  Here is the drawing as it is currently. 

 

I will through up some thumbnails in the next post so you can see where this idea evolved from.  Now, if only Craig could calm down...  (CAN 3 - SWI 1)