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Daily Creativity: Rory as Captain Canuck, Rawr Canuck?

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Daily Creativity: Rory as Captain Canuck, Rawr Canuck?

Daily Creativity: Rory as Captain Canuck, Rawr Canuck?Captain Canuck is a lesser known superhero, but a fun one. Since I am a resident of Canada I thought it only fitting that I finally paint Rory as the good ‘ol Captain. Who is a total rip of Captain America but totally not, because of course there are differences, but totally a rip. It’s all good, America rips off the rest of the world right? Not many superheroes use tanfas as their main weapon either.

I struggled with coming up with a Rory’fied name for this one. Captain Rawr was for that other captain. So Rawr Canuck? Dragon Canuck? I don’t know. I do know he will win a poutine eating contest, can swallow a bakers dozen of butter tarts in a single swallow, and is friends with all of the cats on Parliament Hill. (Super Canadian humor for the win).

Watercolor on paper.

Daily Creativity: Snorlax with Rory

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Daily Creativity: Snorlax with RoryDaily Creativity: Snorlax with Rory

The Snorlax is one of my favorite pokemon. Today I painted Rory and his friend snoozing. I thought of adding a Totoro to the snuggle pile but I thought that would disrupt the composition. I think I like this pokemon most because it’s big and sleeps a lot. He looks like he would be a good snuggler too. I never like the story part of the game where you have to wake him up with a flute, just let him nap, don’t wake him. Then again pokemon at it’s core is kinda a cruel notion when you think about it from the animal’s point of view. Trapped in tiny balls and forced to fight for humans? No thanks. My snoozing friend here is great because he doesn’t conform to that standard, he finds a bridge and takes a nap.

Watercolors on paper.

Daily Creativity: Rory Celebrates Holi

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Daily Creativity: Rory Celebrates Holi

Daily Creativity: Rory Celebrates HoliHoli has been one of my favorite things to honor in my Daily Creativity project. I wrote more about the Holi Festival perviously and why I love it so much. I’m not Hindi but it inspires me. This year I decided that Rory would celebrate. I did this using watercolor and ink on a watercolor block. I actually finished this earlier today but I couldn’t get it to the scanner. I will not be home tomorrow night, I’m staying over at a dojo, so I expect I will have to post my creativity on social media and scan it and post it later. I have two that I still need to post from two weekends ago when I was at my in laws. I scanned them, they just aren’t on this site yet. I’ll get to it.

Daily Creativity: We all need a protector. Rory to the rescue

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Daily Creativity: We all need a protector. Rory to the rescue

Daily Creativity: We all need a protector. Rory to the rescueProtector Rory is keeping his friends safe with his stance and this big umbrella. This didn’t work out as I had planned. I was working with a new supply of paper that was given to me, I didn’t expect too much from it, but since I wasn’t planning to layer too much I thought I would be safe. Well one layer in and the paper started to tear. It is actually worse in person, I touched up the worst tears after scanning it in. The paper isn’t even good for writing, since it is so textured. So I flipped it over and think I can use the back as practice sheets for lettering. Sadly, this supply is a bust. Let that be a lesson to me, don’t use untrusted brands.

Watercolor on paper.

Daily Creativity: Rory as a Union Soldier – Union Dragon

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Daily Creativity: Rory as a Union Soldier - Union DragonDaily Creativity: Rory as a Union Soldier – Union Dragon

Tek and I visited Gettysburg before going down to Balticon. I highly recommend this trip, it has changed so much since the last time I really explored there, twenty years ago. The roads are paved, there is this auto tour you can buy (in CD form now but there is an app in Beta) and they built some overlooks. All while preserving the integrity of the historical site.

We learned a lot we didn’t know. Even having studied the Civil War I missed a lot of things that I learned on this visit. I was inspired to paint Rory as a union soldier. Artillery of course. I’m thinking the war might have been won faster with Dragons on the Union side, but it would have been a very different war.

I started painting this at Balticon, doing some work on the few moments I wasn’t on a panel or getting my 5-2-1. I finished it when I got home. So yes this does break the rules of Daily Creativity as it took more than one day to finish, but in the time total it wasn’t more than I would spend in a day, I think. I am pleased with how it came out and had Tek check my work with the depiction of the enfield riffle Rory is holding. I painted some dirt on his uniform and fur, and tried to make it look dirty. Faded blues too. I’m really happy with how this piece came out. I may be the only person who wanted to see Rory as a soldier, but it marks this trip for me.

watercolors and ink on pressed paper.