The Hot Summer Zoo
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 […]
Category Archives: Inspiration
Limbo in the Studio
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 […]
Art in the Quarantine Age
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 […]
The Measure of an Artist
Happy New Year! Here’s this bright shiny year, as full of promise as an blank sheet of paper, and maybe as scary too, for the same reasons. Thankfully, we all […]
Playing in the Digital Snow
We’ve reached that strange time at the end of the year that I call Holiday Limbo. I saw it described in a post on Facebook as “…that time between Christmas […]
Finding Authentic Visibility
It’s a turtle. Why a turtle? Because I’m very slow off the mark in reporting on a week of my life that challenged and inspired me, while scaring me a […]
An Artist’s Holiday
What do artists do for a holiday? They take an art workshop! I took a couple of days off of comics and making my inktober book to do just that. […]
A Serene Solstice
It’s already gone midnight, here on the west coast of Canada, and I know the actual astronomical moment of Solstice was around nine hours ago, but the sentiment is the […]
Saturday Night Inspiration
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. — Vincent Van Gogh I must say, this […]
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