Melody, the Music Muse
Summer Art Challenge Day 24 — making art every day! I’ve embarked on a multi-day project, which I’ll post when it’s done. It started last night when I decided to listen […]
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A Dragonfly Fairy
I love watching dragonflies. Shimmering in the heat of a summer day, shiny as the lake they swoop over in their zig-zag search for tasty prey, their slim bodies gleam like […]
Look out, it’s Ma Raccoon!
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 18 Not long ago I did a little doodle for another one of my animal-in costume characters, Ma Raccoon. I figured it was about time I turned […]
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.
Saved by the Sketch Cards!
Summer Drawing Challenge Days 15 & 16 I know it seems unbelievable, but sometimes a gal just has to attend to other things besides art! But I managed to sit […]
Sketch Cards!
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 14 Some years ago I was swept into the Artist Trading Card phenomenon — these are the same size as the familiar sports trading cards, 2.5 […]
Garden Muse
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 11 I have been travelling a lot in the last couple of months; first to TCAF in Toronto, then VanCAF in Vancouver, then to A-KON in […]
A Merman, Maybe
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 10 Continuing my obsession with designing mer-people characters, I had an interesting conversation with my comic-jam friends tonight at our weekly get-together. I asked them what […]
A Feisty Mama Raccoon
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 4 Raccoons have been much on my mind lately, what with drawing the character of Renfrew for Spam and the Sasquatch, and discovering that the mysterious […]
Fiddling with Green
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 3 I’ve been experimenting with markers for a little while, gradually slipping down the proverbial slope. It started with three grey Prismacolor markers I got to […]
Informing the Muse
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 2 Do we need words? No, we do not. For more Iris the Art Muse comics, click her tab in the menu bar at the top. […]
Summer Drawing Challenge!
Gulp. I’m doing it again. Iris, my Art Muse, is going to have a fit when she hears about this. But I did warn her, way back when we completed […]
News Flash!
EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT!!! I just got a two page spread (wasn’t expecting that!) in our neighbourhood community newspaper. (UPDATE:) I’ve made a page of the e-interview by Shylene […]
A Ginger Tabby Logo
I started today by going back to painting, after many very long days on the computer. It felt good. I was working on some images for the cover of Spam and the […]
VANCAF Bliss
I just got back from VANCAF, the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival. It’s rather like TCAF (see my earlier posts for descriptions of that), but on a more intimate scale. The […]
Technique-of-the-Week: Texturing Acrylic Paintings
This is my 100th post! Yay! And it just happens to fall on Technique Saturday: Coincidence? I think so… Here’s a fun way to paint if you are into acrylics […]
A Theory of Muses
I’ve been making art pretty much every day, intensively, since the beginning of the year. Iris the Art Muse (see her page in the menu bar if you haven’t met […]
A Comparison of Markers for Artists
Because I’ve been trying out the Prismacolor markers on my Art Muse series, and just bought a bunch of Pitt brush markers for the comic page I featured yesterday (I […]
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 […]
Let the Inking Begin!
Like just about anything in life, there are different stages to drawing comics. The hard part comes up front, starting with hammering out the story and stretching and compressing it […]
Aunt Root — a character maquette
Aunt Root is a character in my soon-to-be-online webcomic, The Mermaid. She’s a rather crusty character (with a heart of gold, or at least really good brass), and because of […]
Down by the Sea
Living on the coast as I do, one of my favourite places is down by the water. Whether it’s a beach on the wild west coast of our island, or […]
Dancing Starfish
One of my favourite subjects is the creatures of the tidepools that abound in this area. This is the only painting of tidepool critters that I’ve done in acrylic, for […]
Life and Life Drawing
I’m back. It’s as if I’ve been to another country, a strange one, and yet I didn’t go more than a mile from my house the whole time. I’d been […]
Telling Tales
This is the cover to my first comic book, a collection of several short stories (a few of which can be found in the sidebar to your left!). I hadn’t […]
Karen Gillmore Art 