Different Strokes

Here is something I did awhile back. I was drawing a ball of twine then I just completely got lost in it, so it doesn’t make sense. I found it quite relaxing though just drawing these shapes, Also using something other than a ink pen was nice!

The Rise of Cleantech

Here is this Saturdays Investing Feature for the Financial Post. Clean Technologies (i.e Wind Turbines, Hydro Power, Solar Power etc..) are coming out as the biggest investment bets of the year, and their values keep growing and growing.

Kultura: Balikbayan Rennaissance 2009

This is a recent piece I have done for Kultura 2009. The theme of the festival is based around the rebirth of culture and the awakening of national pride. National hero's like Manny Pacquiao have always reinvigorated a sense of national pride back into myself. However the first ever hero of the Philippines was Lapu Lapu, who was the first to resist Spanish invasion. I had a lot of fun learning and creating this piece. It's also a breath of fresh air to do something related to your culture and where you came from.

Here's more info!:


Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts & Culture is having its 4th annual KULTURA Filipino Arts Festival, a day-long event, starting at 12-noon, at Bellevue Square Park (Corner of Augusta and Denison St.), and at the KAPISANAN (167 Augusta Avenue), adjacent to the park, in the heart of Kensington Market.

If your in town, hope you can make it out!!

Gems In the Scrapyard

Here is this weeks Financial Post illustration for the investing section. The car industry has been in shambles but there are few companies who are speeding forward. The AD had the idea of banged up cars coming out of a car wreck moving forward. I think it works really well, thanks Gigi!

Oh and I put my car in here somewhere...GUESS WHERE IT IS????

Inside Counsel

Hello all, this is a recent illustration I did for Inside Counsel. I'm sure you've already heard from Pete Ryan's Blog already haha. Here's the three roughs and the final!

The article was about a litigation against Chinese drywall. The drywall turned out to be very cheap and under certain conditions emit poisonous gas, that would corrode a/c coils ruin appliances. Most importantly it would give people breathing problems, cause nosebleeds and other ill effects. I found it interesting that the something meant to protect you was actually harming you. So I focused on the image being very dark and ominous looking.







...and here's the final




I am very pleased how it turned out, and like to thank Liz for giving me a great project to work on. More to come! also my website is updated so feel free to check it out www.JuanSolon.com.

The Summer Correction

Here's a new piece for Financial Post about the Summer Correction. A Market Correction is the decline in prices after a period of overpriced stocks. So one can play defensively during this time to not incur any more losses. I tried some different things with the coloring and im really happy how it turned out. More to come!

The Gas Glut

This illustration was done for the Financial Post weekend about the Gas Glut in North America. Basically there is a huge abundance of Natural Gas in America, but its pretty much worthless, so it's very risky to invest in it. It'ls like taking a dive in a huge pool of shallow water, theres alot there, but nothing to keep you afloat. There was a really quick timeline on this one, but it's been challenging and fun adapting to the different types of deadlines!

Here's the print version! (you know you love the table cloth)


More to come! Happy Belated Canada Day! and Independance Day!! (aka I don't care I still liked that movie)