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: zooly
The Rest of the 12 Days
Just before New Year’s, I posted about the 12-day challenge I was doing in the Zooly Weekly Art Challenge group, where we normally have one animal prompt a week. This […]
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 […]
Practicing in Procreate: Still More Animals
Yesterday’s post showed some of my first efforts in the iPad app Procreate. As I practiced, I got more confidence, and tried flexing my digital muscles a bit. I’ve got […]
Learning a New App: Procreate
This post was supposed to happen yesterday, but it didn’t, due to my discovery that I needed to do a bit more organizing of the images. Also I just plain […]
Sketchbook Roundup 6: The Rest of the Gang
I’m coming to the end of the hand-drawn sketchbook creatures I want to share as part of this series; tomorrow I’m going to end the series with some digital drawings […]
Sketchbook Roundup 5: Sketch Cards
It’s Day five of my sketchbook series, but today is not going to be about drawings from my sketchbooks, but sketch cards. Sketch cards are tiny cards, often (but not […]
Sketchbook Roundup 1: Animal Kingdom
It’s Earth Day, and I’m stuck inside, as so many of us are these days… Hi! It’s been a while. I’m weathering this all OK, since as an artist, I’m […]
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 […]
Pine Cone, Artichoke, or Pangolin?
Now that I’m back in my nice quiet studio, and caught up on all the things that need catching up on after a trip, I’m starting to make some time […]
Brown Paper Critters
During the last few days of Zooly, I ran across a stack of handmade watercolour paper that I had put aside years ago and forgotten about. I originally bought it […]
Painting the Caracal
I can’t believe the Zooly Art Challenge is over! A month of drawing and painting animals was great fun, despite missing out on some due to my adventures with my […]
Hey, Let’s Draw Animals!
There is one week left of the Zooly Art Challenge — if you still want to try drawing/painting/sculpting/whatever some critters, there’s still time to jump in! And good news — […]
An Eclectic Menagerie
The Zooly Art Challenge continues, and I’ve almost managed to keep up by adapting my work methods. I was finding the little cartoons that I had intended to do all […]
Zooly Comics and Drawings
The Zooly Art Challenge has got me back in the studio, though my eyesight challenges are still, um, challenging. This week I’ll be getting my other new eye, and hopefully […]
Drawing the Snow Leopard
My first drawing of the Zooly Art Challenge is done. Getting started on a new monthly challenge is always a bit fraught for me: so many decisions! I feel that […]
Getting into Zooly: days 2-8
As promised, the weekly prompts, all right here in one handy post! The first day got off to a bit of a bumpy start, as we found that people weren’t […]
Zooly Day 1 — Snow Leopard
Aaaaaand we’re off! Today, July 1, is Day one of the Zooly Art Challenge, and your animal prompt for today is the Snow Leopard. If you’re just now dropping in, […]
The Zooly Prompts
The Zooly Art Challenge begins only hours from now (come to think of it, July 1 is already here in some parts of the world!). We weren’t going to reveal […]
Zooly Art Challenge Rules!
The Zooly Art Challenge is almost upon us: it begins tomorrow, July 1st! We’ve had a great response on our Facebook page, and we can declare enthusiastically that Zooly rules! […]
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