I just read Craig Thompson’s book, Blanket. I want to use all kinds of literary words, like beautiful and honest coming-of-age love story, but basically it’s a great book I fell in love with and now I wish my name was Raina. Cute.
And the after effects of that is that I want to draw. I [...]
Remember the Underwater Photography Classes I’m marketing with the fantastic Josan Pinon as teacher? Registration is NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE! I’m going to show you how to make an online sales page yourself!
You need three basic things:
a Product. (In this case, Underwater Photography Classes) It could be anything from Kazoos to Party Tickets.
a PayPal account. (which [...]
I had just moved in, meeting my neighbour (@garfieldherriot)- and I am explaining what it is that I do.
“I’m an art student at Emily Carr University.” Quite the elevator pitch, no?
This is usually enough- “Oh cool! You do art!” or “I hear that’s a really hard school to get into.” Of the latter, I have [...]
I am so pleased! My good friend is getting married!
She asked me to make some posts to mark the cardinal directions. They’re driftwood with tea-dyed yarn tying shells, holly, acorns, feathers, to the twisted branches, and between every two posts swags a few yards of bright sari fabric in marigold, jungle green, and bright plum. [...]
So I made my press release a few days ago and now it’s time to show it to you!
First I made a list of words relating to the subject, keywords, if you want to get all technical. “Underwater, photography, lessons, techniques, photos, photographer…” etc.
Next comes the title: a little catchy, a little cheesy, but most [...]
I’m visiting family in Kelowna – well, technically, about 1/2 hour out, and the internet connection is slow dial-up like 1995. So this post is short and sweet.
I’m reading Ian Rankin’s Doors Open- a “rollicking” art-heist novel- and I’m not going to lie, I would be honored to be the artist whose work was at [...]
Some logical logic:
Artists are creative.
Impossible things need creative solutions.
I want to go snowboarding in Argentina this summer.
How can I make this happen? Going to need some creativity!
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Item #2
Watchmen Revealed- I had some notes but I can’t find them. Also, they are in doodle-format. And then they only make sense to me. For example, here is [...]
As a tween I wrote a four page outline for a fantasy novel. It opened with Pirates, and centered around strong female characters, one a spy from the evil Pirate country who kidnapped three princesses. The princesses escape through an extensive cave system and are rescued after a dramatic fire onboard a ship.
It was exactly [...]
I haven’t been doing much blogging due to a combination of an earache that won’t let me chew and a wee bit of artistic stagnation. Meanwhile, -I’ve got all the jaw strength of snap-dragon flower. I stumbled upon Salon blogger Cary Tennis, who, in his 64 pages of archived musing about personal issues, has dealt [...]
Illustrations that Draw You In (& how to do it)
Welcome back, I always enjoy your presence here. There’s lots of stuff on the internet, so I’m pleased to see you back! I appreciate you
Get it? Draw you in? Oh I am hilarious.
The process of sketchbook to Bristol board to finished work in Skyler Luke Punnett’s work is awesome. He’s in my narrative [...]
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