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 […]
A Midsummer Night’s Comic
Happy Midsummer, folk of the northern hemisphere (and happy Winter Solstice, folk of the southern hemisphere)! Here’s an eight page comic I completed recently, which will soon be published in […]
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 […]
Seashore Books!
Big news — the children’s books I’ve been working on for the last few years are out! Written by Gloria Snively, published by Heritage House Publishing, illustrated by me, these […]
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 […]
TCAF Bound!
A few days ago, I got an email that set my heart to racing and my feet to jumping up and down in a happy dance — I’ve been accepted […]
The April Fool’s Easter Bundragon
How often do April Fool’s Day and Easter fall on the same day? I couldn’t resist the urge to do this funny li’l guy, once he’d popped into my head! […]
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 […]
Studio Journal 5: Progress, Aided and Abetted by Trolls
When I first decided to keep this public studio journal, the plan was that it would make me feel guilty if I didn’t report to the world my progress in […]
Hourly Comic Day — What I Learned
Hourly Comic Day is an informal, annual event started in 2009 by John Campbell. It takes place on February 1. Here’s a really good post about it by Sarah McIntyre. […]
Studio Journal 4: Archaeology of Flat Surfaces
Every room tells a story. A room full of stuff tells even more stories, if you can focus on each bit and its interrelationship to other bits. Which is a […]
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, […]
Studio Journal 2: Starting Points
Whenever I’m faced with a daunting project, I always think of it as a tangle of string, and start searching for an end to tug, tracing the knots to unwind […]
A Studio Journal
All that measuring of artwork for my previous post gave me an idea: why not do the same thing, only by the week? And report on other things going on […]
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 […]
Playing in the Digital Snow
We’ve reached that strange time at the end of the year that I call Holiday Limbo. I saw it described in a post on Facebook as “…that time between Christmas […]
The Cats of Yule
That has kind of a nice ring, eh? “The Cats of Yule” — I think it should be a song, or maybe the name for an Irish-style fiddle tune! I’ve […]
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 […]
A Quadra Cats Hallowe’en
I’ve been so busy with Inktober, and it’s all been Quadra Cats — inking the comic pages and doing the little drawings of interplanetary felines. So I haven’t had time […]
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 […]
Inktober, Part 2
It’s time to share some more Inktober drawings! At halfway through the month, I’ve been flagging a bit, trying to keep up with all my other drawing work, in addition […]
Inktober 2017: Week 1
I’ve been thinking about seasons and cycles lately; not only the natural ones, but personal and cultural ones. I have noticed that one of my sets of seasons consists of […]
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