YOU CAN HELP!

Gordo’s planning to cut arts funding by about 90% over the next two years. Please visit the Alliance for the Arts page for ideas on how you can help stop this nonsense. It’s easy to attach your information to a well-written form email to your MLA voicing your concern. Just click the “make your voice heard” link on the right of the page.

Tick tock, another clock!

I meant to post a pic of this last weekend, when I finished it, but the weekend flew by and I spent this week recovering from the most challenging two days of teaching I have ever had. It’s a humbling experience to be bested by a bunch of 6-year olds, lemme tell ya! Anywho, here’s the latest clock, and there’s another one on the way.

Went to life drawing again this week

Went to life drawing again this week. Of all the drawings, I am happiest with this one. I’ve been checking this great blog called Today’s Inspiration and recently the author posted some information about an illustrator named Walter Wyles.



His use of colour is amazing! Such unexpected combinations – lavender and sunflower yellow, pink and red and blue, purple and orange! So, on a much smaller and less-accomplished scale, I wanted to get in on these good times. Sooo, the life drawing sketch is done with lavender, sky blue, fluorescent yellow, and pepto pink pencil crayons. Wheee!

Tick tock!

Made a couple more clocks, one’s a diorama-rama and the other’s painted onto a wooden cradle frame. The diorama’s 10×10″ and the wooden one’s 6×6″. I’m planning to keep ‘em coming. I’ve also got some exciting plans in the works for the spring, so I’m gonna be a busy lil bee!

What a great night we had at Forsya! It’s a fun little show. I fell in love with these amazing mini-dioramas built inside actual eggshells and decorated with beads. They are hard to describe, but awesome to see! Unfortunately, the artist doesn’t seem to have a website, but Josh and I will soon have an egg in our “collection” so visitors can see the real deal. As I had hoped, I also had the chance to meet Ryan Heshka. He’s a real-deal illustrator with an impressive, international list of clients. Turns out he’s also a really nice guy. We chatted about his work, and he got some of his early covers with the Georgia Straight. It would be so fun to see my work on the cover of the Straight! Mental note – must approach the Straight.