Drawing a Crow in Coloured Pencil
Seems like crows are everywhere these days. For us urban dwellers, they’re one of the few representatives of wildlife we see on a regular basis. Social media is full of […]
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Studio Journal 3: The Easy Stuff, and a Photo Safari
When faced with overwhelming details in a big job, if there is no clear beginning point, I often start with the easy stuff just to get started. From there, order, […]
Jurassic Lark!
If you’ve been following me for a while, you may remember that back in January, I was working on a comic about dinosaurs for an anthology. I wanted to wait a […]
Sneaky’s Interview of Spam, Purranormal Cat Detective
Originally posted on Sneaky The Library Cat's Blog:
Have I got a treat for you, and it’s better than catnip. I have a purranormal cat detective here to cat…
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 […]
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 […]
Inktober: a Whale of a Tail
It’s day two of Inktober! I’m still putting in long hours on a book project, so didn’t have much time to do today’s offering—but it turned out all right, I […]
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 […]
Takeout Planet!
I’ve been working like mad on the new book of the Quadra Cats stories. It’s based on the single-page episodes, but with much, much more added to link them together into […]
Quadra Cats Book!
I’ve been working on a mini-comicbook of the Quadra Cats cartoons! I’ve got the script done, which will tie together most of the existing cartoons into a continuous story. Because they […]
Mistaken Identity — Quadra Cats
It’s time for another Quadra Cats cartoon. I do these quarterly for the local neighbourhood newspaper, the Hillside-Quadra Community News. These little one-pagers are a lot of fun, and I’m thinking […]
Travelling with Comics
I’m on a short trip to the interior of BC with my band, The RabbleBerries, and drawing comics as I go! Trips always seem to go this way for me: […]
Mermaid Music Returns!
I’ve just resumed, after a summer break, my webcomic, Mermaid Music. I thought I’d celebrate by documenting my working process for the first page of “Chapter Two — Over the […]
It’s A Book!
It’s A Book! I’ve just birthed a book! Now I can get back to blogging… .
Up and Running, sort of!
Originally posted on Mermaid Music:
I’ve just put the first five pages of Mermaid Music up for the world to see, and I’m still having a few issues with the…
FATHER CHRISTMAS, Spam the Cat’s First Christmas serialized through Dec. 24
Originally posted on spamslitterature:
Dear Readers, Happy Holidays! Over the next two and a half weeks, culminating on Dec. 24, I will be serializing FATHER CHRISTMAS, Spam the Cat’s First…
MY Graphic Novel Starring Me, Me, Me-ow, SPAM!
Originally posted on spamslitterature:
My dear furrriend Karen Gillmore has created a brilliant graphic novel starring none other than meow! SPAM AND THE SASQUATCH is full of adventure, danger, heartbreak…
Nagged by the Muse
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 17 I realize Iris has a point here… For more Iris the Art Muse comics, click her tab in the menu bar at the top.
Writing with Seaweed
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 6 You know those heaps of seaweed that pile up on the beach, making wonderful abstract patterns in intricate, green-amber tangles, like liquid stained glass? I […]
A Day Off
I’m taking the day off of blogging today; This is my day to fly home. Back again tomorrow with more artist spotlights, and some photos from my day today exploring […]
Featured TCAF creator: Sam Logan (and a trip to the ROM)
As promised, today begins a series of short features about some of the creators that were at TCAF this past weekend. My methodology for choosing them was highly personal; let’s […]
Off to TCAF!
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m off to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, to meet other artists, publishers, and fans. Take a look at the link — there is a lot […]
New — Colouring Thursday!
A few days ago, I got a message from a lady in New Zealand who had found my line drawing version of Eostre, Saxon goddess of the dawn, and downloaded […]
Iris the Art Muse has Her Own Page!
I’ve added a page in the menu bar at the top of the screen just for Iris! Here’s the coloured version of the Iris-does-collage drawing that I never got around […]
Muse Muscles
I did say that, didn’t I? I’ve been working very hard lately; between the blog and the deadline for my graphic novel, I’ve become somewhat of a mysterious hermit woman, […]
