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I’m just floored by this. I found Dana’s amazing chalk lettering and design work on Dribbble and noticed she was doing some label designs for a BC winery. Check out this shot of one of the label designs:

Even cooler is this time lapse showing her creating the original piece (on a board 7 feet wide by 4 feet high).  As a guy who relies way too much on CTRL+Z in my day-to-day work, when I see people doing proper analog work it just totally blows my mind.  What a labour of love…

Just a heads up, friends…

Whether you knew it or not, I’m a member artist at La Petite Mort Gallery in the Byward Market.  It’s a pretty chill space with lots of great art (and some of mine too).  I highly recommend visiting and checking out the multitudes of great (mostly local and totally affordable) art they’ve got for sale.  The gentleman that runs it, Guy, is a great guy and definitely deserves a hefty pat on the back for giving Ottawa such a great venue for all kinds of artists.

The reason for the email… because I’m lucky enough to be a member artist, I get a one night show to display some of my new paintings.  It’s basically a party at the gallery and you’re all invited.  I’m going to be making the trek back to Ottawa to be there and I’m hoping you all can make it too.  They’ll be music and drinks… and more art than you can shake a stick at!

Here’s the info…

http://www.lapetitemortgallery.com/events/StevePalmer2010.html

Friday, March 12th, 2010
7pm to 10pm
La Petite Mort Gallery
306 Cumberland Stree

After almost 2 whole years I figured it was time Quoperative got a facelift.  Technically I figured it was about time for a facelift a year ago and I spent what seemed like months (most likely because it was months) trying to get the blog posts on the home page to lay out like perfectly-formatted newspaper columns.  After fucking around and trying to get it to work about a hundred different ways I gave up and set my sights a bit lower.  The way I see it, why shoot for the stars when you don’t have to?  That’s become my new mantra.

So just so you know… the homepage (cleverly labeled ‘fresh’ in the menu) now includes my blog posts, flickr photos, artwork and tweets — all intertwined chronologically into a continuous river of Steve… wow!

I also updated my work and posted a couple of paintings I did in the summer (photographed horribly by yours truly).