An Eclectic Menagerie
The Zooly Art Challenge continues, and I’ve almost managed to keep up by adapting my work methods. I was finding the little cartoons that I had intended to do all […]
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Paper for Comics
Another post for comics class (see tab at right for the series)! I’ve linked a couple of products to one of our local art supply stores, Opus, because they have […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sneak Peek 3!
Spam, his friends, and the Sasquatch are seeing more of each other than any of them expected. In today’s isolated and therefore hopefully not spoiler panels, the Sasquatch looms large […]
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 […]
Testing Watercolour Paper with Renfrew the Raccoon
Renfrew the Raccoon is a character in a graphic novel I’m working on with author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, and as I’m just about to start on the full-sized drawings, I […]
Character Study — Renfrew the Racoon
Another character in the Spam and the Sasquatch graphic novel that I’m working on, in partnership with author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, is Renfrew the Raccoon. (see yesterday’s post for links […]
