To Draw or to Blog — That is the Question!
This blog is like a shiny new toy that just keeps getting better. Today marks one solid, 31-day month of blogging every day for me (I was going to start […]
Category Archives: Watercolour
Technique of the Week — Demystifying Watercolour Paper
Since I was testing watercolour paper yesterday, this article that I wrote up for my watercolour students came to mind to post for this week’s technique. I’ve inserted some of […]
Testing Watercolour Paper with Renfrew the Raccoon
Renfrew the Raccoon is a character in a graphic novel I’m working on with author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, and as I’m just about to start on the full-sized drawings, I […]
Technique of the Week — How to be a Watercolour Wizard
This week’s Saturday Technique post is really a whole suite of techniques — sweet, eh? From time to time I teach a one-day workshop called “Watercolour Special Effects Magic”. It’s […]
Playing Fast and Loose with Watercolour
It’s been a busy week! I’ve completed the thumbnails for the graphic novel about Spam and the Sasquatch (now I get to start drawing the actual panels — both nervous-making […]
Cougar Annie — a west coast tale in comics
Cougar Annie is the story of a legendary woman of Vancouver Island’s pioneer days. I did this comic as part of last year’s Comics and Graphic Novels program at Camosun […]
The Keepers — some watercolours that stayed at home
If you are an artist, you may know how hard it is to turn loose of some of your paintings. I’ve always had the occasional piece that I’ve needed to […]
Embellishing and Colouring Celtic Design
Today is the third in a series about my experiences in making Celtic art. I have several designs that i have both the pen and ink original versions of as […]
The Elements, Celtic Style
Yesterday I promised to post some more Celtic art, so today I have two sets of paintings that I did back around the turn of the century on the theme […]
Evolution of a Design — Celtic Seahorses
Celtic art has always fascinated me since I first saw it, as has Celtic music. Maybe it’s in the blood; I have a lot of ancestors from Ireland and Scotland. […]
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