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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Happy Midsummer, folk of the northern hemisphere (and happy Winter Solstice, folk of the southern hemisphere)! Here’s an eight page comic I completed recently, which will soon be published in […]
Big news — the children’s books I’ve been working on for the last few years are out! Written by Gloria Snively, published by Heritage House Publishing, illustrated by me, these […]
How often do April Fool’s Day and Easter fall on the same day? I couldn’t resist the urge to do this funny li’l guy, once he’d popped into my head! […]
I had the great pleasure of doing a watercolour demo yesterday for the students of the Comics and Graphic Novels program at Camosun College, the same program I graduated from […]
Hey, art-process fans! Want to know how I made this comic? I just got word that the article I submitted to Colored Pencil Magazine is now in the June issue, […]
I’ve been working on a poster for the artist-run centre I belong to, Xchanges Artists’ Gallery and Studios. and as part of it I made this box of chocolates with symbols […]
I’ve just completed my umpteenth book cover (actually, I think this makes 21 — you can see the rest here) for Nebula-Award winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough! It’s for her […]
When I was a kid, I used to make maps. Treasure maps, fantasy maps, maps of stories I was reading. My mom liberally provided me with brown paper bags for […]
Here’s the painting I’m showing for the annual members’ show at my studio/gallery cooperative, Xchanges. I don’t want to part with it, so I’ve listed it as NFS (not for sale), […]
The cover that I posted the beginnings of two days ago is finished! This will be my entry in the Co-Mix exhibition here in Victoria at the Martin Batchelor Gallery. […]
It’s great when an art project can do double duty! I needed a cover for my story The Mermaid, as well as a “cover” for an art show featuring made-up comic […]
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 […]
I realized that I’ve been neglecting the illustration part of my blog descriptor with all this excitement over comics. So here’s a couple of the illustrations I did for Elizabeth […]
For many years, the drawings and paintings I did were like illustrations for stories — but the stories didn’t exist yet. Many people asked me if I illustrated children’s books, […]
Iris and I are seriously thinking about putting together a little min-comic for the comic conventions coming up. We decided she needed an introduction. I’ve known Iris ever since I […]