This Flamboyant Heart SAYS Happy Valentine’s Day
Left – Tickled Pink Hearts Right – The Flamboyant Heart Each *ACEO measures the standard 2.5″ by 3.5″ and was drawn using Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens with La Plume Artist Markers on 80lb card...
View ArticleA Short Illustrated Story featuring Little Dude
Things have become ridiculously serious around here lately. To lighten things up I’ve put together a morbid little illustrated short just for you because I love you. And Artist’s Tips will return...
View ArticlePussy Willows – 7 New Drawings
I love Spring. Life in general seems easier. No more snow to shovel. It’s finally melting by the way. Trees begin to blossom and flourish giving birth to new ideas, adventures and it all just makes me...
View ArticleSpring Magnolias – Series of 5 New Ink Drawings
Each miniature original was drawn with india ink, pilot pens and opaque white ink on various acid free card stock and are available in the Original Art/Aceo Section of the shop. Keep an eye out for...
View ArticleWe Are Healthy – Collaborative Children’s Colouring Book
Yaelfran from Argentina contacted me in late August to ask if I’d be interested in submitting a drawing to the We Are… series of colouring books she produces monthly. Of course I said yes! What artist...
View ArticleThe Magical Acorn and it’s a long and skinny one
I drew this magical acorn a few weeks ago when the leaves were still brilliantly coloured and hanging on the trees here in Saint John, NB. They have since fallen to the ground and certainly do crunch...
View ArticlePerception – Deck of 34 Original Drawings
I drew each card with Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens (India Ink), Pilot pen (Opaque white ink) and Prismacolor Colored pencil on antique & vintage wallpapers that I salvaged when renovating my...
View ArticleArtist Tip #22 – Just Doodle
Sometime last year I updated my Facebook account saying something along the lines that I couldn’t draw and wasn’t finding any inspiration in life. A cousin of mine, Marc, commented on that Facebook...
View ArticleBus Ride Sketchbook Drawing
I drew this abstract with a Pilot G-tec C4 pen inside a 5 1/4 by 5 1/4 inch Hand•Book cream coloured paper sketchbook while sitting on the bus in July no June 2009. One of these days I’ll buy a new...
View ArticleTraffic noise amidst the winds of change
The life was sucked out of me on 12th Avenue. The incessant traffic noise I wrote about on more than one occasion in my journal. It didn’t ebb and flow there but rather marched no cannon balled and...
View ArticleRecent Fabriano Quadrato Artist Journal Drawings and the story of how I got...
About two weeks ago I got two brand spanking new journals to draw in! Happy! The Fabriano Quadrato Artists Journals are 9×9 inchs in size and are no where to be found in North America. I scoured the...
View ArticleCouch Potatoes – 10×10 inch ink drawing
This is an older ink drawing from 2004 but this is exactly what I’ll be doing tonight, except I’ll be all alone and watching Fringe and have my sketchbook in hand to put pen to paper or perhaps I’ll...
View ArticleSharing some statistics and opening this blog up for sponsorship
UPDATE – Full ad rates can be found on the sponsorship page. Thank you! Everyone likes statistics right? I do, and I enjoy reading when others share their stats with me on their blog. So these are my...
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day – wreath of joy drawing
Just a quick note to say happy mother’s mother’s day to my mom. I love you! xoxo I drew this wreath late last year with a Pilot G-tec C4 pen inside a Fabriano Quadrato journal. Last week, I added in...
View ArticleA tiger and one yawning mouse – childhood drawings from 1984
If you are an artist you’ve likely been drawing since you were very young in age. These are two of my ink drawings from 1984. I would have been 11 years old when I drew both of these on pretty pink...
View ArticleFish illustration and some thoughts in no particular order and why I give up…
Why is it that when you really like someone you get all crazy and can’t contain yourself and blurt out the wrong things and repeat yourself, asking the same questions over and over from sheer...
View ArticleDetox – Day 1
Sometime in January I knew things were not right and that a climax was on it’s way. I phoned the local drug and alcohol detox facility on January 22nd, 2012 and self admitted myself three days later...
View ArticleShake – Drawing
A mandala of hands experiencing tremors… withdrawal on Day 2. The shading is rather atrocious. Mediums – Faber Castell Pitt Artist pens and Prismaclor Verithin Coloured Pencils inside a Fabriano...
View ArticleA mandala with her bot groupies – sketch
This drawing is reminiscent of a previous work from April 2011. This mandala, however has little groupie bots looking out for her. I sketched this out with india ink, coloured pencil and used a little...
View ArticleBe unique and wondrous at all times – drawing
Ideally we’d all be unique and wondrous at all times. This, however, would be difficult to achieve and maintain. As children we were so. But, as we grew into adulthood we were taught to let go of this...
View ArticleTo drink or not to drink and how this relates to crohn’s disease
After a couple of weeks of reading too many self help sites and reminicing over what doctors, councillors, and other medical professionals and what family and friends have said or not said or...
View ArticlePete the Prehistoric Octopus
Pete measures 9×9 inches (23cm by 23cm) and was drawn with Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens inside a huge handmade leather bound sketchbook that I received as a gift for Christmas from Chris. I’ll add...
View Article10 Nifty Employment Facts About Me and about using WaveApps Accounting Software
So, I’m still working on paperwork for the 2012 year. Holy Cow. I began using WaveApps earlier in January as doing “it” by hand was just not cutting it any longer. What a marvelous piece of cloud...
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