Click on image to play my video greeting, or click here. An email I sent my contact list on November 1st: Top of the morning to my friends, family and work colleagues: For those of you who haven’t heard from me since high school, here’s what’s new: I cut my hair, became an art historian, unbecame […]
Studio Tour of Pen Jar Productions
Originally published in November 2018 in Blog, Gift Ideas, Graphic Recorder, Graphic Visualizer, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
The rebirth in failure
Originally published in August 2018 in Blog
This is post was first published eight years ago. Egads, I’ve been blogging a long time! Some people said it made them feel hopeful — even brave. Your morning dose of hope. The ability to focus and commit to something through thick and thin is a quality I admire. Writer and comedian Craig Ferguson describes […]
Say no to racism
Originally published in July 2018 in Blog
I grew up in a multi-racial family. From left to right: Catherine, Alison, Richard, Trevor, Peter, and our 1972 orange Volvo wagon. My brothers and I were born at time when Martin Luther King Jr. was doing his most important work, standing up to segregationists in Georgia and organizing non-violent protests in Alabama. Meanwhile, a […]
Milton Glaser
Originally published in June 2018 in Blog, Doodling, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators, Visual Storytelling
Deepa Mehta
Originally published in April 2018 in Blog, Illustration
Bill Cunningham left us a memoir — oh joy!
Originally published in April 2018 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
The Bouvier Sisters
Originally published in March 2018 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Missing them
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 […]
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 […]
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