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 […]
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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, […]
A Spooky Christmas!
Christmas-and-spooks seems to be A Thing, and it’s not new — of course Dickens’ great classic, A Christmas Carol comes quickly to mind, and modern tales such as “Nightmare Before Christmas” […]
An Artist’s Holiday
What do artists do for a holiday? They take an art workshop! I took a couple of days off of comics and making my inktober book to do just that. […]
False Felines
Inktober, Day 5. I’ve been digitally filing illustrations and doing last little tweaks to the book art all day in Photoshop. Getting to do a wee quick drawing was a […]
Now is Come September
… which is a line from a traditional song that I really like to sing this time of year. Not that it has anything to do with anything else in this […]
After the Whirlwind
Sometimes it seems to me that like life is a big, irresistible wind: a wall of atmosphere that picks up this puny human and sweeps her willy-nilly through the sky. […]
Takeout Planet!
I’ve been working like mad on the new book of the Quadra Cats stories. It’s based on the single-page episodes, but with much, much more added to link them together into […]
Quadra Cats Book!
I’ve been working on a mini-comicbook of the Quadra Cats cartoons! I’ve got the script done, which will tie together most of the existing cartoons into a continuous story. Because they […]
Kickstarter Calendar
UPDATE: The Kickstarter was fully funded a mere hour before the deadline — hooray! If you want to follow the author on Facebook, here’s her author page. I’m putting in one […]
Kickstarter, last day: “The Shell Game”
“The dragons are revolting and the magic is gone! Being queen is complicated.” Author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough has been running a Kickstarter for her new fantasy book, The Shell Game, for […]
Black Cat Evolution
I’m on a roll with these black cats that I’m doing for Inktober. I’m really enjoying the challenge of trying to capture the sheen of their fur, and the intense […]
Inktober Black Cats
More Inktober goodies — this time I decided to tackle the challenge of black cats. Shiny black cats. Black cats are notorious for being hard to photograph, and drawing them […]
Making Mermaid Music
I’ve just posted page 11 of Mermaid Music, my webcomic. It’s my first full-page spread since pages 2 and 3, and I thought it was high time to do another in-progress […]
Political Cats!
I’ve been doing a little one-page cartoon for our local neighbourhood newspaper, the Hillside Quadra Community News, for several issues now. The stars are three cats, Tux, Jazz, and Alien […]
Cats-n-Sasquatch for Indiegogo!
A couple of posts ago, I wrote about a crowdfunding campaign that I’m involved in. The Camosun Comic Arts Festival, or CCAF, is raising funds through Indiegogo for the event […]
Comics Class — Nuts-n-Bolts
Hi everyone! This is week three of my Friday posts for “Comics for the Curious Beginner”, a six-week class I’m teaching at Monterey Centre in Oak Bay. This post expands on […]
VanCAF, Ho!
I just found out today that I’ve been accepted for a table at VanCAF, Vancouver’s own Comic Arts Festival. I was on a waiting list, as space is very tight […]
Those Quadra Cats
Happy Boxing Day! After all the kerfuffle of the season, I remembered that I was going to post the entirety of the second Quadra Cats, of which I posted a […]
Spam and the Sasquatch Update
I’ve made a page so you can take a peek at the first bit of Spam and the Sasquatch! All part of the site overhaul I’m doing. When I started this […]
Digital Colour Play
The other night I found myself at a meeting, feeling twitchy and wanting to doodle. No paper? But wait — I had brought my laptop! I dug out an ink […]
A Pumpkin Lady
Last year about this time, I decided that I just had to have something Halloween themed for my Facebook art page’s cover photo — so I made this pumpkin lady. That’s […]
Calico Cat
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m going to be putting up some older work just to keep up the blogging habit while I’m away from the drawing board […]
The Neighbourhood Cats
A couple of months ago, I had an article in the Hillside-Quadra News, our local neighbourhood newspaper, and I mentioned when I posted about it here that I was thinking […]
“The Mermaid” Cover, part 2
The cover that I posted the beginnings of two days ago is finished! This will be my entry in the Co-Mix exhibition here in Victoria at the Martin Batchelor Gallery. […]
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