“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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Comic Cover: “The Mermaid”
It’s great when an art project can do double duty! I needed a cover for my story The Mermaid, as well as a “cover” for an art show featuring made-up comic […]
Tabby Tallulah in Colour
Summer Art Challenge Day 42 — making art every day Yesterday I posted Tabby in ink; today she has dressed up in colour. She’s one of those rare female orange tabbies, […]
Miss Tabby Tallulah
Summer Art Challenge Day 41 Here’s a new character, Miss Tabby Tallulah. I wasn’t sure what colours to make her or her clothes, so I’m going to wait until tomorrow to […]
Dragon, Muse, Cat
Summer Art Challenge Day 38 — making art every day! This evening was the weekly get together for the comic jam gang. Only three of us were there, but we had […]
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 […]
Canada Day Muse
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 9 Happy Canada Day! Tonight Iris, Mak, Ron, and I watched the fireworks from the studio window! Our house is on a hillside, with a straight […]
With a Little Help from my Friends
A funny thing happened on the way to the printer… Actually, I was not on my way to the printer. Plan A, scrapped about the middle of last month, had […]
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 […]
Dialogue Balloons and Caption Boxes, Oh my!
I’m feeling a little quantum just now. The myriad potentialities of adding the dialogue to Spam and the Sasquatch have now been collapsed into one sleek and unified whole, and […]
An Interim Report — Spam and the Sasquatch
I’ve been industriously inserting dialogue balloons and caption boxes into Spam and the Sasquatch for the last few days, using InDesign. It’s actually kind of fun, but taking much longer […]
Celebrating!
I have finished the painting of Spam and the Sasquatch, a few minutes past midnight, so I’m too late to post today, because it’s now tomorrow! The work is not […]
Up a Tree, with an Eagle
In today’s painting, Spam the detective cat finds himself up a tree with an unsatisfied customer! I’m very, very close to being done with the painting; here’s what my table […]
Technique-of-the-Week: Polishing a Page
Making a graphic novel involves a lot of steps! I’m getting close to finishing the artwork, and running all the pages through Photoshop to get each one ready for publication. I […]
Jet Lag Blues
I have worked my way up the evolutionary ladder of post-jet-flight consciousness to at least Neanderthal; tomorrow I may be fully human again. I did get a start on the […]
The Disappearing Fish
I’ve taken a day off of painting today — it was time for some life-things that needed to be taken care of (eventually the laundry HAS to get done), and […]
Cheeze It, Sasquatch!
Today in Spam and the Sasquatch, our young Sasquatch is in a spot of trouble with the law. Here’s a couple of my favourite panels from today’s painting efforts. (In […]
Sasquatch Zen!
There’s been lots of progress on Spam and the Sasquatch today — here are a panel and a page that pleased me greatly. (In case you’re just tuning in: Spam and […]
Fish Negotiations
Tonight’s sneak peek at Spam and the Sasquatch involves diplomatic relations between Rocky the Vampire Cat and Renfrew the Raccoon over the possession of The Fish (deceased). (In case you’re […]
Meeting the Sasquatch
The Sasquatch of Spam and the Sasquatch finally makes her appearance! And right away there is trouble… Not long ago I posted the ink-only page with the first two of […]
Rocky the Vampire Cat
Today I’m going to post a whole page, just because I like the way it came out. Spam has encountered his pal Rocky the Vampcat, or Catpire if you prefer, […]
A Deer Encounter
Tonight’s sneak peek into my Spam & the Sasquatch graphic novel painting marathon involves Spam and Renfrew, uh, running into the deer. The deer are the biggest gossips in town; they […]
Enter, Renfrew the Raccoon!
I got to the part in the graphic novel today where Spam-the-Cat meets Renfrew-the-Raccoon. I’ve been having fun with forest colours today, and textures. I’m working very hard, so my […]
An Expressive Cat
Just a quick post tonight — It’s been a long day of watercolour painting! I thought it might be interesting to show some different expressions of Spam the Cat from […]
Technique-of-the-Week — Comic page in watercolour
Today I painted the first double-page spread of Spam and the Sasquatch, and took pictures as I did each stage! So follow along if you like, and help me celebrate […]
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