Dragon, Muse, Cat
Summer Art Challenge Day 38 — making art every day! This evening was the weekly get together for the comic jam gang. Only three of us were there, but we had […]
Monthly Archives: July 2014
The Muse Reconsiders
Summer Art Challenge Day 37 — making art every day! I had fun colouring the comic I posted yesterday in pen and ink! Iris did too, and was relieved to be […]
Colour the Muse!
Summer Art Challenge Day 36 — making art every day! I’ve finished the ink stage for Iris’s latest adventure; I’m looking forward to colouring it! It occurred to me that other […]
The Muse in the Camera
Summer Art Challenge Days 34-35 — making art (of some kind) every day! I went on a little trip this weekend with Melody the Music Muse; The RabbleBerries were performing on […]
A Garden Muse Epiphany
Summer Art Challenge Days 32-33 — making art every day! The muses have been very busy the last couple of days, as have I. Yesterday Iris came out in the garden […]
More Silly Animal Characters
Summer Art Challenge Days 30-31 — making art (of some kind) every day! Right away, I must confess; I did not draw yesterday, nor did I paint, sculpt, collage, or otherwise make […]
As the Muse Turns
Summer Art Challenge Days 23-29 — making art (of some kind) every day! The impulse to create is a funny thing. It doesn’t confine itself to neat boundaries of expression. A […]
Melody, the Music Muse
Summer Art Challenge Day 24 — making art every day! I’ve embarked on a multi-day project, which I’ll post when it’s done. It started last night when I decided to listen […]
Life Drawing Meditation
Summer Art Challenge Day 22 — making art every day! A lot of the work I do involves drawing from my imagination. I say imagination, but it also involves memory and […]
The Muse gets her Wish; a reprise
Summer Art Challenge Day 20/21 — making art every day! My studio is topsy turvy. I’ve been moving around furniture, having recently had my dear old treadle sewing machine returned to […]
MY Graphic Novel Starring Me, Me, Me-ow, SPAM!
Originally posted on spamslitterature:
My dear furrriend Karen Gillmore has created a brilliant graphic novel starring none other than meow! SPAM AND THE SASQUATCH is full of adventure, danger, heartbreak…
A Dragonfly Fairy
I love watching dragonflies. Shimmering in the heat of a summer day, shiny as the lake they swoop over in their zig-zag search for tasty prey, their slim bodies gleam like […]
Look out, it’s Ma Raccoon!
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 18 Not long ago I did a little doodle for another one of my animal-in costume characters, Ma Raccoon. I figured it was about time I turned […]
Nagged by the Muse
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 17 I realize Iris has a point here… For more Iris the Art Muse comics, click her tab in the menu bar at the top.
Saved by the Sketch Cards!
Summer Drawing Challenge Days 15 & 16 I know it seems unbelievable, but sometimes a gal just has to attend to other things besides art! But I managed to sit […]
Sketch Cards!
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 14 Some years ago I was swept into the Artist Trading Card phenomenon — these are the same size as the familiar sports trading cards, 2.5 […]
A Merfolk Feast
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 13 I’m narrowing down the look of my merfolk for my in-progress graphic novel/webcomic The Mermaid, with the help of a lot of suggestions here and […]
Magic Muse Wand
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 12 It’s funny how Facebook posts about hair seem to generate immediate long conversations. Today I hennaed my hair, and mentioned it on Facebook, and — […]
Garden Muse
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 11 I have been travelling a lot in the last couple of months; first to TCAF in Toronto, then VanCAF in Vancouver, then to A-KON in […]
A Merman, Maybe
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 10 Continuing my obsession with designing mer-people characters, I had an interesting conversation with my comic-jam friends tonight at our weekly get-together. I asked them what […]
Canada Day Muse
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 9 Happy Canada Day! Tonight Iris, Mak, Ron, and I watched the fireworks from the studio window! Our house is on a hillside, with a straight […]
Karen Gillmore Art 