Summer Seas
From my Mermaid Music webcomic: Hello readers! I’m surfacing from the ocean of work I’ve dived into, inhaling a few deep breaths to let you know I’m OK and so is […]
Category Archives: It’s an artist’s life
Fun with Fireworks
It’s July! In Canada, July is ushered in with Canada Day. The scents of BBQ and suntan lotion waft on the breeze; the giant concert downtown reverberates off the houses […]
Finding Forgotten Art
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been cleaning out my “away” studio, preparing to leave it at the end of July, retreating into my home studio to focus fully […]
After the Whirlwind
Sometimes it seems to me that like life is a big, irresistible wind: a wall of atmosphere that picks up this puny human and sweeps her willy-nilly through the sky. […]
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 […]
A Mazing Time
Another year is on the wane, winking out like the stars in the morning. 2015, as with all years, has had its own distinctive personality, with quirks and vices and virtues. […]
Studio Open House
Things have been hopping at Xchanges, the artists’ co-op I belong to! Once a year, the gallery and studio organization has a members’ exhibition and studio open house. The preparations […]
I Have a Shop!
… Or, er, well, it’s a start, anyway. I am signed up with Redbubble and have uploaded one image so far, so I wanted to crow about it. I just […]
Comics, Art, and Conventions
October has been a month for conventions for me and my friend and fellow comics-creator Kay — two in one month, which is a lot for me. Showing my work at conventions, […]
The Studio Shuffle
Once again, I’m pulling up stakes and moving my studio — but not too far this time, just across the room to a slightly larger space! I share a studio […]
A VanCAF Adventure!
I’m not sure you can really call something an adventure if everything goes like clockwork, but it was a great way to kick off the new book! After a bit of […]
An Enchanted Sunday
I spent last Sunday at the Enchanted Forest Festival, an event sponsored by the Coast Collective. A couple of posts ago, I shared some pictures of my advance trip out […]
Magic at the Lagoon
Two weeks have flashed by since I last wrote here — the comics festival has come and gone in a flurry of activity, after which I certainly needed some recovery […]
Camosun Comic Arts Festival!
Yesterday, someone asked me why I had gotten into comics, and I found myself spinning the long tale of my somewhat winding journey. Today, while inviting everyone on my Facebook […]
Thickening the (Webcomic) Plot
I’ve just posted page 10 of Mermaid Music, my webcomic-that-will-someday-be-a-graphic-novel. I’m starting to feel in the swing of things now, and despite a very busy (hectic, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, feverish, […]
Just Imagine!
The creative resolutions continue to propagate. In my last post, I mentioned that I would like to do more writing, as opposed to the joint pictures and words I use […]
Creative Resolve
Yesterday I had a look back at the last year, and promised (in a moment of madness, no doubt) to post about my resolutions for the coming year. Yikes! What […]
Crystal Ball, Retrospective
The year is waning, about to wink out like a dying star, soon to be replaced by a new bright young one. As many people do, I go back and […]
Open Studio Day
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley —Robert Burns Opening my studio to the public is always a tricky business for me. I have two studios; the […]
Reflecting, Regrouping, Rehearsing
There are times in an artist’s life where one has to stop running headlong into the next project, and stop and look around to get one’s bearings. I seem to be […]
The Wet Coast
I’m continuing the posting of my comic/sketch journal I kept while I was at the ocean last month. It’s only in pen and ink at this point, and I intend […]
A Camping Journal
Every summer I go with a group of friends to the northern portion of Pacific Rim National Park, a vast stretch of sandy beaches on the west coast of Vancouver […]
Back in the Saddle Again!
It’s funny how time can stretch out and become nebulous after a lot of intense activity. When I finally don’t have a million things to do in a day, somehow […]
Off to the Yukon!
I’m off on another convention adventure, this time to Whitehorse, Yukon, for a brand new convention called Yukomicon. I won’t be able to post while I’m there, but I’ll take […]
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