Turns out the book I'm working on includes a short intermission introduced by an endangered butterfly - who knew?
Anyone else get very excited around the 1st of every month because you can finally request more books into your library's collection? #cpl #bibliophile
Alberta Comics Love selected as a CBC comic of the year! Woo!
50 short comic stories about the joy of love in all its positive, diverse and quirky forms. Created by Albertan creators. Curated & edited by @alexanderfinbow.bsky.social @sheaproulx.bsky.social Emily Pomeroy & Hartley Rose.
Work by my fellow presenters on the eve, Chris Doucher, Sam Lucy Haslam and Hollis Parrot. Chris Doucher's comic is illustrated by Jackson Gee.
Thurs, Sept 11th, 7pm - @shelflifebooks is hosting the long awaited launch of Alberta Comics: Love
This is the 2nd volume of the anthology I help edit, and I have a spicy comic in it too!
If you see this, post a monster #monster #artpost #octosnake
I reprinted some of my fav zines for this, and made a new collab print with my booth mate, Nicole-The-Bride-Gruzsecki - so it's a little creepy and fun. Bet!
Or you could order a different #canadianmothersdaygift from @renegadeartsent.bsky.social - Alice At Naptime is a trippy poetic lullaby of a graphic novel, from an indie Alberta publisher based in Canmore 🦫
Looking for a #canadianmothersdaygift ? Just Happy To See You is a short illustrated book of humour and cheeky talking blossoms :) It's available online from the Conundrum Press website, printed in Montreal 🐦🦩🪽
Another fun day at #calgaryexpo2025 : I got the best kind of commission, they said "do whatever you want" 😁
Once again, it's almost time to load in for the @calgaryexpo ! You'll be able to find me in the @renegadeartsent section of the pro aisle - table P61! Can't wait to see you there!
#shoplocal #mothersday #indie-publisher #albertamade #madeincanada #babygifts #kidsbooks #graphicnovels #comicexpo
I forgot to bring my art trading cards to my last Botanical Drawing class at AuArts, so I'm mailing them out to the artists who gave me theirs :)
Next session is May and June, Thursdays this time 🌸
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Cause I draw at the dentist allllll the time, and thought I better paint about it too...
I just got back from Edmonton yesterday. Jenn Long and I installed a super neat collaboration in the front window area as part of our duo exhibition at @gallery501 in Strathcona County. I'm so excited for this project, it's been years in the making 😍
Usually I draw a bouquet at least once before it wilts. Very busy couple weeks up ahead getting ready for my show at Gallery 501. Will I squeeze in a drawing? Root for me!
Holding a stick.
I'm moving through the final to-do's for my duo-exhibition at @Gallery501 in Strathcona County (just outside Edmonton), with photographer Jenn Long.
We're putting up a neat collab in the front window and I'm *almost* prepped for it - involves cool stencils 😎
Shameless local-author/artist ad!
The best way to get my books is at a local independent bookstore :)
I get royalties when a library system brings in my books - ask for them, it really adds up!
Thanks to @renegadeartsent & @conundrumpress printing in Canada!
#supportlocal
Throw back: self:portrait from 2003 or 04. Acrylic on canvas, just a wee one, 6 x 8 inches perhaps.
There's something visceral about it, yeah.
My brother doesn't have much art in his place so he snagged the one scratch board peice I did in high-school from my parent's house, a flock of birds nesting on rocks.
So I guess fuck every other (fascist) app.
I’ll be posting random work from across my 10+ years of study/practice here.
First up is Ishmael from AuArts year 2 - circa 2015
Scratch board and ink
Epic, always fascinating to see a new side and media.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum ✊️
Detail from an oil painting my husband and i have been working on for...20 years? It's probably his turn to work on it. Then again, it might still be mine.
8 years ago, inspired by mid century poster design and vintage hunting paraphernalia, I started drawing a series of dinosaur hunting/travel posters in the style of the old Canadian Pacific travel posters. This one was a direct spoof of a 1937 poster by Tom Hall. #dinosaurart #blueskyartists
Attention attention: the waiting is over, at long last...you can suggest titles for the Calgary Public Library collection again 🙏
Detail from "Slide Matrix" - I plan to paint the whole thing once more in acrylic and oil this time. Watercolour was a joy though, my biggest one this decade.
We shall smite them, and take their booty for our own!
