Ocean Commotion, a concept drawing by Cheryl Hamilton and Michael Vandermeer, the duo who make up IE Creative Artworks. I had originally seen the drawing at the Opus Art Supplies on Granville Island. Cheryl writes that the drawing was created as a flowchart for the processes involved in making concrete. It was part of the preliminary work that went into the kinetic sculpture situated in front of Ocean Construction Supplies. The sculpture was installed in 2006, and coincidentally was the subject of the Daily Flickr Pickr July 7, 2011 on VancouverIsAwesome.

Granville Bridges, a 48”x60” acrylic painting on canvas by Tom Carter. This fine perspective illustrates nearly the exact same moment in time as last week’s post, showing the Granville Street bridge nearing completion. The advert makes the bridge look as though it is already finished, but I believe some fancy photo retouching is merely giving that illusion.

Woman on Bridge 1 by Jack Darcus, illustrating the tango dancers on Granville Island, from the Seawall bike path. An egg tempera on gessoed panel 92 x 102 cm (36 x 40 in) seen recently in his paintings for sale.

Illustration of the Metro Cooperative Theatre Society vying for theatre space in the early days of Granville Island, from the cover of Performance, Magazine of the Arts in Vancouver, dated April 1-15, 1977. At this point in time, the paper was free twice a month, working towards a paid circulation. I don’t know how long it lasted. The masthead/imprint reveals that the publisher was Anthony R. Chick, the editor was Toni Dabbs, Richard Harrington was both the ad manager and art director, and Beverly Smith was production assistant. The drawing is signed Harrington, so presumably that was Richard Harrington, though I don’t think it was this Richard Harrington. Inside I spotted an article by Bob Cummings, who was an early influential writer for the Georgia Straight. Interesting little paper; anyone else remember anything about it?

Granville Island, a 14x20 watercolor on board by Sandrine Pelissier. I’ve featured her work here before, and earlier this year she posted this blog post inspired by my site. She has various prints available on her etsy store.

Granville Island Brewing signage, artist unknown, seen last week at Go Fish Ocean Emporium.

Granville Island, sketched by Holger Hansen in 1958 while attending the Vancouver School of Art, seen via flickr.