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The English traditional song variously known as The Wren, The King, or just the first line quoted here has always been one of my seasonal favourites. When my friend Brian […]
The English traditional song variously known as The Wren, The King, or just the first line quoted here has always been one of my seasonal favourites. When my friend Brian […]
The final post for this year! I’m finishing this series off with another digital style that echos traditional media I have done in the past — this one’s linocut. I […]
Nearly every October, I jump on the bandwagon for the Inktober art challenge. This year I did Inktober/Catober, using Inktober prompts with a cat theme. I didn’t do all of […]
Great Galloping Groundhogs! How did it get to be the end of the year already? Well, it is, and nothing to be done about it except make a year-end post […]
Hello there! It’s been ages since I’ve written here, but I’ve been doing a lot of writing lately—in fact I’m at a writer’s retreat right now! So this being Halloween, […]
We’ve been snowed in on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada, for most of the week. It’s been colder than I can remember it being in 30 years of […]
Miniature paintings are something I never thought I’d do. I’ve always had a yen to paint big — really BIG — and a couple of decades ago I was doing […]
I’m almost caught up with my musings about last year’s art — just this one more post about my brief foray into doing Witchtober and then it’s on to more […]
In trying to make sense of the last year in terms of my creative activities, I’ve realized how much the work I did became compartmentalized in terms of what was […]
No, I’m not doing that crazy dance where you try to defy gravity while wriggling under a low bar! I don’t have the limber for the limbo, and besides, I […]
Just before New Year’s, I posted about the 12-day challenge I was doing in the Zooly Weekly Art Challenge group, where we normally have one animal prompt a week. This […]
What a year it’s been! Like everyone else, I’ve seen a lot more of my house this past year than usual. Although I’m usually home quite a lot, since that’s […]
There is something to be said for the old-fashioned observance of the 12 Days of Christmas, or Twelvetide. It has a fascinating history, which I won’t go into here, because […]
It’s Christmas Eve! One of the delightful array of holidays this time of year. Whether you celebrate Solstice, or Christmas, or Kwanza, Hanukkah, Galaxy Day, or one I don’t know […]
Look what arrived yesterday! A whole box of the latest book I illustrated in partnership with author Gloria Snively, published by Heritage House! I’m so excited — the printing is […]
Happy Winter Solstice, to those of you in the Northern Hemisphere! Soon the all-too-short days will be getting longer, and before you know it, green things will be popping up […]
I’ve been doing a webcomic for several years now called “The Quadra Cats“, about some Earth Cats that meet up with an Alien Cat and accidentally find themselves as impromptu […]
Yesterday’s post showed some of my first efforts in the iPad app Procreate. As I practiced, I got more confidence, and tried flexing my digital muscles a bit. I’ve got […]
This post was supposed to happen yesterday, but it didn’t, due to my discovery that I needed to do a bit more organizing of the images. Also I just plain […]
I’m coming to the end of the hand-drawn sketchbook creatures I want to share as part of this series; tomorrow I’m going to end the series with some digital drawings […]
It’s Day five of my sketchbook series, but today is not going to be about drawings from my sketchbooks, but sketch cards. Sketch cards are tiny cards, often (but not […]
It’s day four of my sketchbook animal series! Sometimes drawing accurate depictions of creatures gets to be too much for me (I am a cartoonist, after all) and I just […]
This is Day Three of my Earth Week special series, of animals I’ve drawn in the past year in my sketchbook (and occasionally on random pieces of paper). Today’s post […]
Today is the second in a series of peeks into my sketchbooks. In honour of Earth Week, I’m posting some of my animal drawings that I’ve done over the last […]
It’s Earth Day, and I’m stuck inside, as so many of us are these days… Hi! It’s been a while. I’m weathering this all OK, since as an artist, I’m […]