(drawing) Coffee Cup Resurrection

Last Friday I gave you a small taste of the imagery collected in the ongoing photo-based project Coffee Cup Genocide. After taking pictures of discarded coffee cups for the last couple of years I had an idea. What if the coffee cup could ascend to a higher level than hot beverage container? What if it could become more than just another cup making its way through the recycling plant, or in most cases, sitting in a pile of garbage? To answer these questions I sat down with a coffee at Tim Hortons and pondered for a fer minutes.
After the coffee was done I began to dissect the cup. 1st I roll up the rim around the entire coffee cup. Then i carefully peel back the overlapping paper until i reach the bottom. The bottom is the tricky part you see. you have to dig under the fold at the bottom pulling at the corner. Once the folder under paper is puller back the paper bottom can be removed from its glue hold on the paper cup. Much like how Dr. Frankenstein tossed away unwanted body parts while building his monster, I tossed the bottoms into the recycling bin. I rolled the cup opposite to its natural curve and it flattened nicely.
Now that I had a surface I needed to figure out what to put on it. The customers in the Tim Hortons didn't look to be the type that would take kindly to me drawing them and the staff kept moving. I was about to leave when I noticed the rain was picking up, but then i looked past the rain to the street and the buildings. I began to draw giving birth to Coffee Cup Resurrection.

Dundas And Batherst

This was the very 1st in the series. I was experimenting with a smudging of ink technique I used in a previous series to capture the architecture of the street corner.










Body Parts For Science... SCIENCE!

After creating an image from reality I decided to move more into the realm of imagination with this image. A mad scientist is collecting body parts for some unknown reason and he is to busy celebrating the collection of two hands that he doesn't notice his latest victim escaping.







Wife Number Six

A man has discovered a way to live forever. He sucks the life force out of his wives. Unfortunately they eventually discover that they are aging faster while he remains the same. When they come to this realization he bops them on the head and they wake up in a giant jar only to be taken out when he needs to rejuvenate.






Feels like I'm Forgetting Something...

Seeking the ultimate thrill Forgetful Fred has decided to sky dive into the Grand Canyon. Being Forgetful Fred he has forgotten his parachute. I wonder when he will figure it out.









Under Attacked

I had been watching some really cheesy samurai/ninja flicks one weekend, and then someone started talking about them at work. Here we see a samurai who is calm because he can see the ninja behind him as well as the one in front of him. Everyone knows it's the ninja's that you can't see that you should worry about.