and some Halloween goodness

More work, doodles and a walk the next day and I managed to squeeze in some browsing and reading on Dutch typographer/printer/artist H.N. Werkman, who after the collapse
of his printing business at the age of 41 began to devote his life to using his press for more personal expression
Heres a poem from the last issue of his avante-garde magazine the Next Call.

October is going to be a busy and exciting month, so for no particular reason
i thought I'd do my best to make some regular posts.
A beautiful weekend Alison and i managed to head up to the cottage for a couple of
days. As usual I took along some work but I'll not be posting that but doodles and
photos. Before heading to the cottage in Gravenhurst we stopped in at the farmers market in Bracebridge and the local diner.

won't you join me for breakfast...





this girl said this to Alison when Alison commented on how she liked her bike



On the road to the cottage
we spotted a fox. First time I've seen here. It was a good weekend for wildlife
and as we came across 4 deer and 5 wild turkeys. The rest of the time was spent working, a bit of sketching before we headed out to a new restaurant called North
which was quite good.

We went to Stratford this weekend and saw "The Comedy of Errors"
It got panned by the critics but I thought it was pretty good tho a bit goofy in places.

some quick sketches for there.

It Alison and mine's 4th year anniversary.
hurray!

My friends birdhouse


my friends pond

my friend


and my friend fred making pancakes

these be sketches

Sketches from weekend in Gravenhurst.

My revamped and updated website DRAZEN KOZJAN.COM is up. Its been a bit buggy in some browsers, especially Internet Explorer ( tho I believe its been fixed ) so if anyone is experiencing problems please me let me know if you like. The News and Shop sections are still under construction but everything else should be up and thanks for looking!
The site was put together by my old and talented friend Steve Jelliman.

I'd like to thank Michael for his nice words about The Happy Undertaker and inviting me to be a feature artist this week over at
Jewcy and joining the other fine talent over there.

Sketch from this mornings bike ride.

Met up with Arna Selznick and Mike Smukavic for some sketching at the Royal Ontario Museum and seeing its revamped crystal wing. Well unfortunately they've installed a " no sketching with anything any but a pencil" policy, something that never existed before and after some arguing we decided to just wander around outside and sketch under a tree. After we worked through our anger by drawing horrible caricatures of JVB as a authoritarian ROM securtiy guard (just kidding there JVB:-)) we grabbed a quick bite to eat and caught up. Didn't get too much done but what there was is below except a sketch of Mike's foot which I decided not to post after long and hard sole searching.
I have to say that Mike's head was not this crispy but it offered a nice spot of colour for me.

From a great book on caricature called "Is That Me?" by William Auerbach-Levy.
Love this guys work.