Zooly Day 1 — Snow Leopard
Aaaaaand we’re off! Today, July 1, is Day one of the Zooly Art Challenge, and your animal prompt for today is the Snow Leopard. If you’re just now dropping in, […]
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The Zooly Prompts
The Zooly Art Challenge begins only hours from now (come to think of it, July 1 is already here in some parts of the world!). We weren’t going to reveal […]
Zooly Art Challenge Rules!
The Zooly Art Challenge is almost upon us: it begins tomorrow, July 1st! We’ve had a great response on our Facebook page, and we can declare enthusiastically that Zooly rules! […]
The Zooly Art Challenge
Zooly is a month-long art challenge during the month of July, dreamed up by Karen Gillmore and Melody Pena, two artists who both like drawing and sculpting animals. Every day for the month of July, there will be a prompt for an animal to spark your creative juices.
Everyday Art
Hi everybody! February has been a busy month of art-making for me. I wrote at the beginning of the month about the Opus Daily Practice Challenge; now it’s the end […]
A Mermaid a Day
…keeps the blues away! Hi everybody, just a quick heads-up that over on my Mermaid Music webcomic’s blog, I’m posting a cute little sketch card of sea-folk every day this […]
Exercising the Muse
My hard-working muse, Iris, just sighed when I said I was going to do the Opus Daily Practice Challenge again. She has muscles on her muscles, she positively sweats creativity, […]
Inktober: Limitations and Freedom!
Inktober is rolling on, and my little Moleskine book is filling out nicely! I feel like I’m hitting my stride with these, after being a bit rusty with the one-page […]
Dinosaur Sibling Rivalries
Dinosaurs! My first ever illustrated book was created when I was in Grade 3 (I think). I loved dinosaurs. I checked out every book on dinosaurs in the school library […]
Galapagos Mistaken Identity
One place I’ve always wanted to go is to the Galapagos. Since reading articles in the National Geographic as a child, I’ve longed to see the islands that inspired Mr. […]
Ask an Elephant!
I’ve been having an ongoing conversation with a lot of my friends lately over the lost art of map-reading. Seems all this GPS usage is eroding the ability to read […]
They call it… Camouflage
Why do animals hide? Lots of reasons! When I saw today’s Inktober prompt word,”hidden”, of course I thought of all the ways animals have as built-in blending strategies. Colours and […]
False Felines
Inktober, Day 5. I’ve been digitally filing illustrations and doing last little tweaks to the book art all day in Photoshop. Getting to do a wee quick drawing was a […]
Whale Candy
Inktober is cooking along nicely on day 4. And good news— I’m winding up the humongous book illustration project that has had me cooped up in the art cave for […]
Meanwhile, in Australia…
Day 3: Today’s Inktober word was “collect”. I suppose I could have just drawn my animal model collection, but it was too obvious. Also, too many animals! So… what’s the […]
Art Zombie!
It’s been an intense month-and-a-bit here in my studio. When last I wrote, I had embarked on a daily challenge to make art every day. Now, it’s not an unusual […]
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