Alan Spinney’s thirty years of creating images for the advertising industry continue to influence his artwork. Bold colour saturation, strong contrasting shapes and confident compositional elements all come together in a variety of visual media. Storyboarding, visualization, illustration, oil painting, and comic book illustration all factor into Alan's skills in storytelling with images.

Alan Spinney’s thirty years of creating images for the advertising industry continue to influence his artwork. Bold colour saturation, strong contrasting shapes and confident compositional elements all come together in a variety of visual media. Storyboarding, visualization, illustration, oil painting, and comic book illustration all factor into Alan's skills in storytelling with images.

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Alan Spinney’s thirty years of creating images for the advertising industry continue to influence his artwork. Bold colour saturation, strong contrasting shapes and confident compositional elements all come together in a variety of visual media. Storyboarding, visualization, illustration, oil painting, and comic book illustration all factor into Alan’s skills in storytelling with images.

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Education

Bachelor of Applied Arts in Cinematography at Metropolitan Toronto University (Ryerson)
January 1, 1979 - June 30, 1982
Cinematography course, with design and photo electives.
Masters of Business Administration at Universite de Moncton
September 1, 2002 - June 30, 2005
Business courses including Project Management, Negotiation, Accounting

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    paper Comic book mini series

    Co Created, cowrote and illustrated a 4 issue comic book mini series entitled Brittle Hill, Each issue featured recurring characters, who were unusual beings: zombies made of candy! The stories involved their interaction with teenagers in a small town. One further spinoff issue was printed, and a colouring book edition of the first issue was also created and sold.
    Copies were printed and sold at comic book stores, comic conventions, farmers markets and author fairs. We conducted radio, television, news paper interviews, along with podcasts, blogs and in-store appearances at bookstore chains.

    paper Comic book story written and illustrated

    Wrote and illustrated an eight page comic book story about pirates in Malta. Researched clothing and ships and locations in Malta. The full colour story was published in a small indie comic book, entitled Gun Metal Black Ops. I also illustrated the cover of that issue.

    paper Illustrations for Documentary about Immigrants

    Provided several hand drawn illustrations in marker and coloured pencil for a documentary about Syrian refugees making their way to Canada. Required research to show specific vehicles, maps, and locations where events occurred.

    paper Video illustration

    Provided a large format layered digital image of a townscape for use in a tv commercial, Illustrated people, houses and streets to portray a small town. Full colour, in a similar look to a Where’s Waldo theme