I love juicy ink sketches with a graphic punch. This one was created with a Pentel Brush Pen and Noodler’s fountain pen ink. I almost never nail the drawing on the first try. You have to warm up your hand and your head, like a ballet dancer at the barre sliding her foot to the […]
Delia Ephron
Originally published in May 2023 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Archetypes
Originally published in November 2022 in Blog
Lois played the zany-kooky card because that’s what women in showbiz (who looked like her) did in the early 1960s. Men called her a “character,” but never a “creature.” Only femme fatales were creatures. These were the two choices for women who put themselves out there. The lack of range felt inside both camps was […]
