Witches and Mermaids and Bears, Oh my!
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 […]
Category Archives: It’s an artist’s life
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 […]
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 […]
I Blame the Kittens
Oh, hi! It’s been a while. A really long while. I’m kind of staring at the screen wondering what to say; wondering if anyone’s still out there after all this […]
Meeting the Art Challenge
The word “challenge” conjures up a lot of different connotations: a dare, a provocation, an opposition, a task, a problem. An Art Challenge contains many of these; it’s a kind […]
What I Learned at TCAF
I’m a firm believer in the principle that there is something to be learned from every experience. Really, it’s wired into us biologically; but humans are complex creatures, and we […]
Tabling in Toronto
Here I am in the big, big city, folks! I’m such a stay-at-home of late that if feels like a huge adventure, even though I know travelling like this is […]
Going Mobile
Since I’m off to TCAF this week I decided it would be fun to blog as I go, even though I’m not taking my computer – I really want to […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Wild Pacific Trail
When first I embarked on this attempt to tell about my inspiring two weeks on the west coast of Vancouver Island, I thought seven days would be plenty. It’s not. […]
An Aquarium Photo Safari
A love of aquariums came upon me suddenly around the age of nine or ten. Not those little ten-gallon things you keep a few goldfish in — I had one, […]
All Washed Up — on the Sand
Do you ever have a dream where you find some kind of treasure, only to wake up and find that it was only a dream, but still with a sense […]
Life Between Rock and Sea
On the very edge of the land, washed and abandoned in turn by the tides, is a world teeming with life. It’s a place of strange and alien beauty, life-and-death […]
Total Fun with a Partial Eclipse
“Oh no! Not another eclipse blog!” Well, yes, but since we weren’t in the path of totality, we had to do things a bit differently. No fancy filtered photos of a […]
Glamping for the Impecunious
There’s an art to camping comfortably, which, like all art, takes some practice and preparation. When I told my friends I’d be camping for two weeks at Ucluelet, there was a […]
Beaches, Surf Huts, and Palazzos
Inspiration for art comes in many forms; it can be as gaudy as a sunset or as subtle as the flicker of light through leaves; as huge as the sea […]
Magic Vision — Through Science!
As a visual artist, my eyesight is of prime importance, and I’ve just embarked on the life-changing experience of having my vision corrected — surgically. I’ve been extremely nearsighted since […]
The Cold Beasties
Sometimes, usually in situation comedies, one might end up going to the wrong party instead of the intended festive destination. Maybe the address was garbled, maybe the wrong kind of […]
Trip Cancellation Blues
Alas and alack! Sometimes the spirit is eager but the body says no. Last week at InCON, I came down with the horrible “cold” (which seems a gross understatement for […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
Now is Come September
… which is a line from a traditional song that I really like to sing this time of year. Not that it has anything to do with anything else in this […]
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