I Saved A Seat, Just For You :)

The CRUX Of The Matter....

... is that I've got some very exciting news.

So I've been off the grid for a while, hammering out some small things here and there in typical artistic fashion, but the BULK of my time has been going to a semi-secret project that I can finally talk about!

So, in case you were unaware, I like designing. And I like puzzles. And I've learned that I really like escape / adventure rooms. Turns out that through some delightful happenstance I've been able to actually design an escape room. A good friend of mine who's made his way into the Southern Ontario escape room community (yes, that is actually a thing. I was surprised too) got the opportunity to manage his own escape room for a company called CRUX. He's brilliant with puzzle concept, but not with the art, and offered me the chance to fill the room with all the things!

We've been working on this now for a few months, and soft opened last weekend, but as I was hanging out tonight putting up some final stickers we had our FIRST walk-in customers! It's been insane to see this as an empty building to puzzle concepts to to construction and everything in between.

Unfortunately, this is the one of the few projects I can't preview here, as it might ruin some of the puzzles of the room, and blow the surprise the theme, but I CAN tell you our first room is called Dead Air.

With total bias, I recommend you check out our Facebook page, and if you like what you see, pop over to the CRUX's website and see about setting up a booking. We are making new rooms, and I solemnly swear that this won't turn into only advertising for the room, but it's the only way you're going to see my art this time ;)

Thanks for reading!

Denver, The Foam Dinosaur

Remember these?

I do! I used to love these growing up. I had a few of them, and I remember putting them together, and then moving to more complicated ones. Once I started working with foam again, and piecing together the sections of the Stargate, I remembered putting together these puzzles and thought "Hey! Let's combine these things!"

So I found a pattern like this...

...printed them large format, and then used that as a template to make much bigger foam pieces out of them...

...and unearthed this old beast! A special thank you to my lovely assistant who held the tail down. The structural stability of the final product wasn't as good as the old wooden ones, and was way too top heavy. Learnings for next time!

As always, thanks for reading :)

Pop Culture Contest: The Return!

Good morning children!

The response to the first run at the Pop Culture Contest were overwhelming, and not only did I have people request well after the contest closed, almost a month later people were asking if they still had a chance to enter :)

So once again, I gave the first four people who responded to my Facebook post the chance to have their name(s) immortalized in a reference to their favourite pop culture theme.

Congratulations to the winners :)

As always, thanks for reading!

Pop Culture Contest The First

I gave the first four people who responded to my Facebook post the chance to have their name(s) immortalized in a reference to their favourite pop culture theme. The results are in!

Thanks to all those who participated. Keep checking my page regularly, as another contest like this will definitely be coming up soon!