I move between many different tribes: writer people, illustrator people, and hotel pool people.
Pool People
Originally published in July 2019 in Blog, Comic, Graphic Recorder, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Multicultural Day on The Esplanade
Originally published in June 2019 in Blog, Custom Portraits, Graphic Facilitator, Graphic Recorder, Graphic Visualizer, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators, Visual Storytelling
If you are near Crombie Park this Thursday, June 27, please come and say hi. I’ll be working as one of the artists at Jamii Esplanade’s Multicultural Day, along with Andrew Patterson and Alicia Herbert. There will be live performances by dancers, musicians and poets from around the world. Stroll by Jarvis and Esplanade between […]
Jane’s Walk Toronto
Originally published in April 2019 in Blog, Illustration, Jane Jacobs Enamel Pin, Pen Jar Productions, Toronto Illustrators
Splishy colours and Squiggles
Originally published in April 2019 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Originally published in April 2019 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
In 1967, she was thinking: air hostess (for the glamour), nurse and office girl with oodles of charm and personality. In 2019, she is thinking of algorithms, black holes, oncology, Odyssey translations, and true crime. She is still being instructed to improve her hair, her voice, her figure, her walk, but the joy of applying […]
Brassieres
Originally published in April 2019 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Virginia Woolf and Alice Munro in conversation
Originally published in March 2019 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Morning memories
Originally published in January 2019 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
7 things my customers taught me in 2018
Originally published in December 2018 in Blog, Gift Ideas, Illustration, Pen Jar Productions, Toronto Illustrators
Last summer, the initial delight I felt in seeing my sketchbook drawings on a digital pillow template inspired a new design business in 2018 called Pen Jar Productions. Now my quirky line drawings are on totes, tees, scarves, and, coming next month, enamel pins! (In these politically-charged times, more of us are wearing our values […]
Women and burnout: a comic
Originally published in December 2018 in Blog, Comic, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
