Peter Cook • Illustrationist

As previously mentioned on this page, Art Advent Calendar is an annual festival of art posts conceived years ago by @JayisPainting to fill December social media feeds with lots of original art.

When I can participate, I try to challenge myself to create a whole new project, pretty much in real time.

This year’s AAC was officially held on Bluesky, but I also posted my absurd little project up on my Mastodon and Tumblr feeds as well.

Here’s how it went over the course of the 3 weeks.

December 1

Late on Day 1 of the 2024 #ArtAdventCalendar, I got a missive from the local beavers, engineers all, announcing their participation with some kind of so-called “tradition” they are planning to celebrate the Solstice.

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A few selections from the month of daily drawings in October 2021. I used an AI generated list of whimsical (sometimes nonsensical) daily prompts.

Opposumasaurus

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Every December, Twitter user @JayIsPainting calls for “Art Advent”, an opportunity for as many folks as possible to post their art on the platform and perhaps make it a little more calming and a little less toxic. While new work is in no way expected, I took it upon myself to create daily illustrations, rig them to stand—sometimes with props or set created on locations—and situate them somewhere in the local neighbourhood, whatever the weather.

https://www.tumblr.com/peterlcook/702773217638711296/snows-up-in-toronto-art-advent-day-1

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Last summer I had the honour to be a small part of a great program to record and recover the Haida language in Haida Gwaii.

The Skidegate Haida Immersion Program is creating a large number of small books, each focusing on a specific part of the language and culture. Each book has a story with text in Haida, with an enclosed CD of an elder speaking the book’s text.

In my case, I was assigned The Bathroom, or as it’s said in Haida, K̲aax̱ul Naay. I created 18 images in ink, watercolour and coloured pencil, then add the Haida text word balloons digitally.

It was a lot of fun!