Let’s give what we can: time, encouragement, money, and love. For those who have much and are still cranky and upset for some unknowable reason, it’s probably because you’re not doing enough for others. Changing someone else’s sense of what’s possible, changes your own.
Let’s help more
Originally published in April 2018 in Blog, Illustration
The Bouvier Sisters
Originally published in March 2018 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Handrawn social media portraits vs. bitmojis
Originally published in February 2018 in Blog, Custom Portraits, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Does your #bitmoji express the real you (even with 1.9 septillion options)? Not in my books. Hand-drawn #portraits catch the flutter of your spirit and reveal your hidden strengths way better than the frozen stare of digitized art. Email me if you’re looking for an illustrated social media profile picture. Because creativity is a part […]
Pinecones
Originally published in February 2018 in Blog, Illustration
Homemade brush holder
Originally published in February 2018 in Blog, Cartoons, Illustration
My brushes kept rolling off my desk. Then I remembered that old salt dough recipe from First Grade, and I baked a brush holder! In this sketch, it’s Joe Shuster, co-creator of #Superman. Most Americans don’t realize Superman sprung from a Canadian brain. But it makes sense to us. We’re quiet, we’re strong, and we […]
James Baldwin
Originally published in January 2018 in Blog, Cartoons, Racism, Toronto Illustrators, Visual Storytelling
When the going gets tough, the weak blame. It appears to be a human default setting. I often dream of good deeds, And individually extracting myself from the white man’s shitty record on race. “But you can’t,” Ta-Nehisi Coates told a podscast audience I was part of … “Any more than I can get out […]
Living in a success culture
Originally published in January 2018 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Sixties style
Originally published in January 2018 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Kitchen prep
Originally published in January 2018 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
In my latest adventure, I worked as a kitchen prep cook at The Merchant Taps & Tavern. The Christmas season was busy and they needed extra hands. Suiting up in a fresh apron and rubber gloves, I spent each day making 40-lb meatloafs, prepping giant containers of jerk chicken marinade, mixing big bowls of fragrant […]
Friendship
Originally published in December 2017 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
