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Art, illustrations, design and sketches by Lee Nielsen. humanate.com Christine Klassen Gallery

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The newest poster I just finished for an annual cancer fundraiser in Calgary. Ink wash on paper coloured and tweaked in photoshop.   

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A few pages from a short comic that I am working on. It’s called “A Mystical Magical Journey” It’s a project done in my spare time entirely in the pub. Outside of the studio.

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Another Illustration for Avenue Magazine. This accompanied a story by writer Todd Babiak. Again, Ink on paper and coloured in photoshop.

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This is a poster I did for a small theatre company in Calgary called Downstage Theatre. The poster is for the play “My Family and Other Endangered Species”. It’s ink on paper that was coloured and finished in photoshop. 

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These are the first in a series of oil paintings that I have been working on. I’m playing with the idea of transposing clichéd office workers and corporate types into religious icon paintings. The paintings are oil on wood with engraved patterns in the halos and gold leaf. 

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Here is an editorial illustration that I did for Avenue magazine. It was for the YEG section and accompanied a story about the respective histories of South Africa and Edmonton.  

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Here is a poster I made for a cancer fundraiser that is happening in Calgary on April 26th. It looks like it's going to a lot of fun. It's being organized by the Vine Arts guys so the look is similar to their brand. It's ink on Stonehenge. The colour and type where done in Photoshop. 

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Another experiment in forcing some abstraction. An ink drawing textured and coloured in photoshop. It's a drawing of Bernini's St. Sebastian.  

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I was doing some research into Rihanna for a project I am working on. I needed to familiarize myself with her a bit. It started out as a sketch and I got a little carried away. It's an ink and gouache drawing that was finished off and edited in photoshop.  

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This is a poster that I did for an event in Calgary called "Circle the Wagons" It sounds like a fun event with food trucks, bands and all manner or performers. I set the date in a dingbats font because I'm not allowed to release that info yet. It's and ink wash drawing that was coloured and finished off in Photoshop.   

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This is an ink drawing that I took into Photoshop to add some color and texture to. It's an abstracted take on Antonio Corradini's "Veiled Woman" sculpture. I'm still using a grid to force some abstraction and get some unexpected variety in my work.

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This is the latest poster I have finished for the Vine Arts crew in Calgary. It's for a customer appreciation party. Fire breathing bearded ladies! Always a pleasure to work with these guys.

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I was playing around with texture to colour a drawing. It's an ink drawing that was coloured and finished with photoshop. It's supposed to be Tricky although it doesn't totally look like him. 

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I started playing around with Sketchup today to see what I could do by integrating some 3D into my working process. I used it to generate some abstract shapes and interesting compositions which I then painted into and started adding textures to. The woman is loosely based on a waitress at my local pub. 

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Another sketch from the weekly sketch night. I decided to draw Gillian Gilbert, keyboardist for New Order. My love for New Order and Grids are converging.

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An ink and gouache sketch of a grid of faces. I'm playing around with figure/ground relationships and value scales.

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An old .gif I found kicking around on an old hard drive. It was for a projection mapping project through Guru Digital Arts College that I worked on for the Works Art + Design festival a couple years back.