Shea Proulx

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

A young girl with her face surrounded by a feather-boa, dark makeup and high contrast and shadows make any detail in her eyes nearly invisible. Painted with a photo reference, that's been pixelated, but then meticulously recreated in acrylic, with colour separations in three blue shades, white and black. Full lips, unsmiling, she confronts the viewer, hair creeping across her face, perhaps a model mugging for a photo, or else a corpse seen through a crack in ice.

Throw back: self:portrait from 2003 or 04. Acrylic on canvas, just a wee one, 6 x 8 inches perhaps.

White birds on black scratchboard, maybe forty of them? They're nesting on the rocks and maybe there's water in the background, or maybe sky. There's so many in the foreground that they blur into one another, becoming almost an undifferentiated natural pattern like the texture of a rock-face, or bark, or a tossing wave. A few birds are in flight, far away, just one at the perfect angle so that only it looks like the classic cartoon sketch of a bird, the gesture we all learned as children, a 'v' with its arms curved in, like wings.

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 ✊️

A bald glowing green floating alien blob with a superfluidity of breasticles frowns atop a multicolored matrix of colour. Similar apparitions surround it.

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 🙏

Watercolour painting with a nonsensical and still somehow meticulously rendered blue slide disobeying the rules of physics. It is either very small, or it is entangled with a gargantuan branch of pink crabapple blossoms. The sky might have whisps of cloud, or maybe it's just painted that way.

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!

Greetings fellow traveler, what do you suppose we might we discover in this new landscape de la media socialidad?

Flashback to my show at @nvrlnd.bsky.social this fall: This is how the kids tell me it's time to throw in the towel and go home.

For take-your-kid to work day I took my teen to the Alberta University of The Arts (where I'm teaching Cont. Ed). We found an interactive art project to play around in.

This IS such a fun place to work.