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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! […]
The Zooly Art Challenge
Zooly is a month-long art challenge during the month of July, dreamed up by Karen Gillmore and Melody Pena, two artists who both like drawing and sculpting animals. Every day for the month of July, there will be a prompt for an animal to spark your creative juices.
Everyday Art
Hi everybody! February has been a busy month of art-making for me. I wrote at the beginning of the month about the Opus Daily Practice Challenge; now it’s the end […]
Exercising the Muse
My hard-working muse, Iris, just sighed when I said I was going to do the Opus Daily Practice Challenge again. She has muscles on her muscles, she positively sweats creativity, […]
Galapagos Mistaken Identity
One place I’ve always wanted to go is to the Galapagos. Since reading articles in the National Geographic as a child, I’ve longed to see the islands that inspired Mr. […]
Whale Candy
Inktober is cooking along nicely on day 4. And good news— I’m winding up the humongous book illustration project that has had me cooped up in the art cave for […]
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 […]
Happy Inktober!
Once again, folks, it’s time to indulge ourselves in an ocean of ink. I participated for the first time last year in Inktober, which is a month-long challenge started by […]
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 […]
The Muse gets her Wish; a reprise
Summer Art Challenge Day 20/21 — making art every day! My studio is topsy turvy. I’ve been moving around furniture, having recently had my dear old treadle sewing machine returned to […]
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