Painting Mermaids and Merboys
Why are mermaids always maids? What do you call a boy, er, mermaid? Merboy? Merlad? A grown male mer-person is a merman, or sometimes, a triton (though they usually have […]
Tag Archives: watercolour
Art Zombie!
It’s been an intense month-and-a-bit here in my studio. When last I wrote, I had embarked on a daily challenge to make art every day. Now, it’s not an unusual […]
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 […]
Midwinter Greetings!
Midwinter, Yule — at last the days will be growing longer! We here in the north feel this turn of the year keenly, longing for more length to the days […]
Cats & Pumpkins
Here’s the new Halloween cover photo for my Facebook and twitter pages — thought I’d continue with the black cat theme I’ve been doing for Inktober. I’ve been languishing lately over […]
Comics, Art, and Conventions
October has been a month for conventions for me and my friend and fellow comics-creator Kay — two in one month, which is a lot for me. Showing my work at conventions, […]
Inspired by Inktober!
I’m doing Inktober! I’ve been hearing about Inktober for several years now, watching my friends post their ink drawings on their social media, but didn’t know what it was about. […]
Mermaid Music Returns!
I’ve just resumed, after a summer break, my webcomic, Mermaid Music. I thought I’d celebrate by documenting my working process for the first page of “Chapter Two — Over the […]
A VanCAF Adventure!
I’m not sure you can really call something an adventure if everything goes like clockwork, but it was a great way to kick off the new book! After a bit of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Thickening the (Webcomic) Plot
I’ve just posted page 10 of Mermaid Music, my webcomic-that-will-someday-be-a-graphic-novel. I’m starting to feel in the swing of things now, and despite a very busy (hectic, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, feverish, […]
Comics Class Wrap-up!
Yesterday’s final comics class was a lot of fun — everyone had done a lot of work over the last six weeks, and had some wonderful comics to show for […]
Comics Lettering & Balloons
This is another post in the series for my comics class, expanding on and illustrating subjects we talked about in class. Yesterday we discussed lettering and colouring; the colouring will […]
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 […]
Mermaid Music
Mermaid Music. From the latest page in my new online comic (click the link above) — this one’s moving us into the central mystery of the story. It’s pen and […]
Evidence of Comics
“Hmmm,” said Sherlock, “there seems to be a webcomic about to be published.” “How can you tell?” said Watson, “All I see are some paints and little pictures.” “Elementary, my […]
Creating Comics Characters
This is the second of my Friday night posts for my comics class. If you’re not in the class, don’t worry, this is for you too! I hope these posts will […]
Just Imagine!
The creative resolutions continue to propagate. In my last post, I mentioned that I would like to do more writing, as opposed to the joint pictures and words I use […]
Open Studio Day
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley —Robert Burns Opening my studio to the public is always a tricky business for me. I have two studios; the […]
New Technique Links!
I’ve just made a new menu (look to your left) for tutorial and educational pages I’m making based on some of my classes. So far I have three links you can […]
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 […]
Working Behind the Scenes
You know how sometimes you go to a website and get a page that says “under construction”? I’m doing a bit of renovating to this blog right now, working on […]
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 […]
Karen Gillmore Art 