Jump to it!

With the new year approaching and the end of this very odd 2009, I am glad to say I am a lucky lucky Man.

I was given a Mac PowerBook from a total stranger and now have it up and running with new software to take on the designs and clients I have been sadly neglecting due to my G$ tower, as perfect as it once was, no longer was able to offer reliable functionality to complete, or even take on new work and offer deadline accuracy.

So, with great excitement I am proud to announce a new, fresh system with transport options intact, to create new art and design for all to enjoy!

Happy Holiday's and may the Peg within jump jump jump up for joy's of the World:)

Truly,

Dana Bourgeois,

Peg Design

Everything but Web....

To state the subject title is fairly accurate considering some of the design projects i get. This custom job was one of the funniest i have ever done, and as it turns out, one of the hardest jobs Chris Dekerf of Dekerf™ custom Bikes, has ever come across. Now the design was not hard, but the project overall, in my transport getting it there, being that it ways a heavy chunk of classic metal and Chris' reducing the paint to the original metal, and then creating the swirl process the Client, one creative Artist in her own right, deeply desired. By the time this simple paint reduction and DEcal design project was done, it totaled a larger portion of 3 weeks!

Overall, as i always LOVE to hear, she was happy, he was happy, and we all hugged and sang in cheering satisfaction. Another Peg Design Collaboration complete with a smiling client.

Now, isn't that Special.....

Peg Design gets the Sage approval!

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Cherries on the Beach

Decided to sit on the beach with a friend, and pull out some new markers and thin line felts. This was the outcome. Her name is relative to the illustration. she loved it, and now wants it as her Tattoo. I think i will have to modify it a bit and then pass it on:) As and after sort of action, i was then handed over 20lbs of Cherries in a box, freshly picked from trees only three days earlier to take home. I of course couldn't do such a thing with out sharing with friends and strangers so after i arrived at home, showered and cleaned my self off form the Tofino/ Uclulet trip, i found only about two small containers of cherries worth keeping. turns out my guest on the way back ate more then they most likely could deal with, and i am sure were very sick due to eating so many. so, cherries, all around, through art and tongue;)

It's been awhile since I was able to do any artwork, and now with a new place to live in, and lots of balcony space for a studio like setting, this blog will be taking on more and more actual artwork and dimensional pieces.

Be well. Eat Cherries

Raven Skate Shop shoot

Awhile ago I Had a great person to help me along with my casual modeling needs. We spent the day taking snaps for some clothing of mine that was never photographed before, and since I was building up Web content, it was badly needed. This was over a year and a half now, and I Only just got around to a Blog;) I do admit, my photography skills are not up to par for doing such work so I think the next time I need to do this, I will hire a professional.

My Friends Erik and Jayelle once owned Raven Skate Shop in Tofino, Bc. It ran for about 3-4 years and was/ is very well known. I did all the basic file set ups and some design for them and they produced a lot of clothing, some of which i was able to get, some not. In the attempts to create a web site with a variety of products i have deigned for over the years I delayed the creation due to a continuous workload, not something i will mistakenly do again.

The above pictures are just some of the shoot, the tree was a fantastic find, what with it's rich winding roads catching anything it grew into. The last quartered layout was for a booklet i was going to surprise Erik and Jayelle with, but they shut the doors before i was able to give it to them.

Overall, the Raven project was a joy and I was glad to have worked with Raven and the team that I also get to enjoy as close talented friends.

Smash the Machine, Smash the controls.....!

Sadly, this is my everyday as i struggle to deal with my poor, poor Gwillion. Yes, Gwillion would be my Mac G4, a 2001 one 733 model that has NEVER malfunctioned until last summer, when all hell broke loose. Really, the gates were left open by some random child and things have never really been the same. Now, i am not saying Hell is a bad place really, it's just up for changes most do not understand or enjoy. with these new changes we adapt and modify ourselves, thus evolving, and potentially growing in more the more, but a truer self. I found something to do last night due to not having Gwillion to rely on and get some work done. The option was to go to the library to pick up "a" book. Well one hour in the isles and i knew i was hooked lined and sunk into the world of caption, dialogue, forms and screen printed events, eras and unified decimal points connected by strings of history, only to walk out with another 45lbs of reading and visual materials to assist in my new weeks of project development.

So, while i pursue new clients in the hopes of gaining enough income to scrap by and manage a new mac and accompanying software (yes, due to the new Pentium chip i will be needing a new CS4 kit to run as well as Office 2008 instead of my trusty 2004) , i will toss back  few cold ones, offered by my tap of choice, sadly dispersing only water laced with fluoride, and sketch away my rainy blues of electric and binary woes.

Danger Will robinson, Danger i say....

The booty on the wall

This is one of my first Vancouver snow sculptures. It was after a friends birthday and i was meeting the party back at another friends place and had to wait for sometime. IOt was rainy and the snow become a wet slop and yet retained it's shape more then i expected and clung like vine shoot to the cement wall along the driveway stairs.