Sunday mornings. Sometimes I flip through my sketchbook looking for drawings to colour. Look, I found this butterfly! Caran d’Ache soft watercolour pencils felt like the best way to add a hit of colour to her wings. The colour melts into paint when you add water. The rest of my day went well after this. […]
Butterflies and #ASMR
Originally published in June 2021 in Blog, Drawing Lesson, Toronto Illustrators
Fur Bébés
Originally published in June 2021 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Reality Bites
Originally published in May 2021 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
I don’t want to be good
Originally published in May 2021 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
I don’t want to be good (yawn), I want to do good (BOOM!) That means working with doers. One of my latest partnerships is with Lakeshore Arts, a not-for-profit arts organization just down the street from me in Etobicoke. From Monday to Friday, the LSA team is working hard producing an array of arts programming designed to […]
Jane’s Walk Toronto
Originally published in April 2021 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Jane’s Walk is a grassroots movement focused on city building. It’s named after the urban activist and badass Torontonian Jane Jacobs. Every Spring, to honour Jane’s birthday and her spirit of inquiry, cities around the world host volunteer-led walking tours that make spaces for people to observe, reflect, share, question, and re-imagine the places in […]
Coco and Diana
Originally published in March 2021 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Reading is my greatest joy. This exchange appeared in Amanda Mackenzie Stuart’s biography on Diana Vreeland called Empress of Fashion. Diana described the conversation in greater detail: “Coco [Chanel] was a nut on armholes. She never, ever got an armhole quite, quite perfect, the way she wanted it. She was always snipping and taking out […]
Teaching Art
Originally published in February 2021 in Blog, Toronto Art Teachers, Toronto Illustrators
The internet is a wondrous tool for learning new skills. When I decided to set up an online classroom to teach my way of making art, Google presented me with the perfect teacher: @ClaraLieu. Clara is a visual artist and former prof at the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Founder of @Art.Prof, a […]
The Great Escape
Originally published in February 2021 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Pigeons & Elevator Buttons
Originally published in January 2021 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Happy Holidays
Originally published in December 2020 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
