Still Life With Muse
Drawing-a-Day 26 Iris is being cooperative. Or maybe she can’t believe I could be so weird.
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A Golden (Retriever) Opportunity
Drawing-a-Day 23 I haven’t had a dog friend of my own for many years (my cat Mak likes being an only child) but every now and then I encounter one […]
Miss Penelope Chi-Wawa
Drawing-a-Day 22: Meet Miss Penelope, a lady of impeccable breeding and good taste. She may look demure and delicate, but she has nerves of steel when in a pinch. She’s […]
Dinosaur, Digitally Drawn
Drawing-a-Day number 21 — three weeks! A toy Triceratops, abandoned in a parking lot, gained a new life on my shelf of animal models. I have a collection of realistic […]
The Evolution of Spam-the-Cat
Drawing-a-Day number 20 I’ve been pencilling comic pages all day, and itching to get my hands on some colour. This is drawn from one of the panels I penciled today […]
A Feline Swashbuckler
Drawing-of-the-Day 17 Here’s another character from my doodles of last Sunday night, turned into a finished painting. I tried an experiment that was suggested to me by my mentor today […]
An Irate Mama Eagle
Drawing-of-the-Day 16! Blog post number 50! Whoo-hoo! In the graphic novel I’m working on with writer Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, there is a lady eagle who is quite irate, and telling Spam […]
Drawing-a-Day — Fortnight!
Today’s sketch marks two whole weeks I have been doing this. Sometimes I’ve only gotten a sketch in before midnight by the skin of my teeth, but I’ve done it, […]
Doodling a Drawing-a-Day — Little Bird Guy
Last night my hubby and I went to our usual Sunday evening haunt, the Victoria Folk Music Society’s weekly coffeehouse. I like to sit and doodle while I’m there, in […]
Digital Dragon Delight — Drawing-a-Day 9
I can’t help it, I just like alliteration. Really, this is more of a painting today, but that starts with a P. Yesterday I posted the beginnings of a dragon […]
The Muse is not Amused
Uh-oh — now I’ve done it. Forgot to check in with the muse. Meet Iris, whose name means Rainbow. She’s my art muse. I have a bunch of muses, and […]
Art Supplies for Control Freaks — Coloured Pencils
Although I adore watercolours, and enjoy the give-and-take partnership between me and my medium when I’m using them, sometimes I want a medium that I can order around. That I […]
Book Covers — Kitties and Yetis and Vampires, Oh My!
I’ve been doing book covers for my friend Elizabeth Ann Scarborough now for something like half a decade, and the count is up to 18, with two in progress. I”m […]
Cougar Annie — a west coast tale in comics
Cougar Annie is the story of a legendary woman of Vancouver Island’s pioneer days. I did this comic as part of last year’s Comics and Graphic Novels program at Camosun […]
A Comic in Process: from Thumbnails to Finished
I just finished the 64 pages of thumbnails for one of the graphic novels I’m working on, and am feeling like celebrating! Whoo-hoo! Since I’m watching my calories, I won’t […]
Suitable for All Ages — painting a theme
Two summers ago I participated in a group show at my studio cooperative. The theme was “Suitable for All Ages”. Usually I really like themes (I’m going to have to […]
Technique of the Week — Celtic Knotwork
It’s Saturday, time to post one of handouts from the various and numerous classes and workshops I have taught over the years! This gives me a bit of a break […]
Embellishing and Colouring Celtic Design
Today is the third in a series about my experiences in making Celtic art. I have several designs that i have both the pen and ink original versions of as […]
The Elements, Celtic Style
Yesterday I promised to post some more Celtic art, so today I have two sets of paintings that I did back around the turn of the century on the theme […]
A Typical Morning at our House
This is the first comic I made, in the evening class that led me to commit to a whole year’s full time study. I made thumbnail drawings, and corrected thumbnail […]
Horse Sense — a short story in comics form
Spam the Cat Becomes a Character Maquette (Part 1)
I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s mentoring session with Joan Steacy. We’re going to work on character maquettes all day, one of my favourite things to do. It doesn’t even seem […]
Comics Jam Medicine
This evening I was very blue. Seeing too many disturbing posts on Facebook put me over the top, and I was paralyzed with blueness. Maybe even shading into ultraviolet. I […]
Book Covers
Book Covers This is my third post — I’m enjoying experimenting with all the blog tools and widgets and whatnots! I’ve written a bit about myself and my journey, and […]
New Year, New Career, New Blog
So. Somewhat to my surprise, I’ve been on this planet for very nearly 60 years. I’ve been an artist for most of that time, sometimes making a living that way, […]
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