Grief
Originally published in May 2019 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Sakura in High Park
Originally published in May 2019 in Blog, Pen Jar Productions, Toronto Illustrators
This weekend Toronto is heading to High Park to take in the cherry blossom trees (“Sakura” in Japanese) at their peak. I painted this delicate pattern last spring while I was sitting on a streetcar in downtown traffic. The design is available in my Shopify store, PenJarProductions.com. Just search the term “cherry” and you’ll see […]
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
Hand Drawings
Originally published in April 2019 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
The push and pull of being vs doing. To me, hands are the ultimate doers, storytellers, get-shit-done human power tools. Not so for the copywriters at Elle magazine in 1967. Boy is it fun and weird leafing through back issues. Women’s magazines are the supreme handbooks on how to be, not do. There are times […]
When your students draw you
Originally published in April 2019 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
