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 […]
Tag Archives: pen and ink
Salish Sea Santa
It’s a glorious, sunny Christmas Eve here in Victoria, BC, surrounded by the coastal waterways collectively known as the Salish Sea, after the Coast Salish people whose traditional territories are 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 Wild Ride
Happy Hallowe’en! Been for a wild ride with your muse lately? Iris the Art Muse decided that a little jaunt would do me good. Trouble is, I’m afraid of heights! […]
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 […]
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 Wet Coast
I’m continuing the posting of my comic/sketch journal I kept while I was at the ocean last month. It’s only in pen and ink at this point, and I intend […]
A Camping Journal
Every summer I go with a group of friends to the northern portion of Pacific Rim National Park, a vast stretch of sandy beaches on the west coast of Vancouver […]
“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. […]
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 Reconsiders
Summer Art Challenge Day 37 — making art every day! I had fun colouring the comic I posted yesterday in pen and ink! Iris did too, and was relieved to be […]
Colour the Muse!
Summer Art Challenge Day 36 — making art every day! I’ve finished the ink stage for Iris’s latest adventure; I’m looking forward to colouring it! It occurred to me that other […]
A Garden Muse Epiphany
Summer Art Challenge Days 32-33 — making art every day! The muses have been very busy the last couple of days, as have I. Yesterday Iris came out in the garden […]
As the Muse Turns
Summer Art Challenge Days 23-29 — making art (of some kind) every day! The impulse to create is a funny thing. It doesn’t confine itself to neat boundaries of expression. A […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Little Artist that Could
I ink I can, I ink I can, I ink I can… I’m almost finished with the inks for Spam and the Sasquatch, and so my mantra. Serious eyestrain happening […]
Spam and the Sasquatch — Sneak preview!
As those of you know who’ve been reading this blog regularly, I’m working on a graphic novel called Spam and the Sasquatch, written specifically for this project by Elizabeth Ann […]
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 […]
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