Chapter nine, In Art Pursuit draws to a close with today’s post. And I begin my hiatus from posting every week. I will post occasionally…
If you like to listen to, or read interviews with authors, it is not uncommon to hear an author discuss how their characters seemed to…
Keith Richards says he is not a songwriter but an “antenna.” As an example, the inspiration for Gimme Shelter came as he was watching people…
Cursive handwriting can be beautiful. Or it can be scrawled, messy and illegible. To my mind, it does not matter. I love to look at…
There is a profound difference between inspiration and reality. So far, it has been my experience that when the creative process takes over, reality takes…
This past week, I attended the Walrus Talks; ‘Eighty minutes of lively, thought-provoking ideas exploring creativity in all of its forms’ presented by The Walrus…
Or are you? One of the most common responses I get from friends who read my comic is, “Is that you?” or “Which one is…
The creator of ‘Peanuts’, Charles M. Schulz is accredited with having said “Draw what you like and hope others like it too.” That saying has…
One of my sisters volunteers as an editor for these blog pages and she told me about three blogs ago, “Stop apologizing” for the art…
As I embarked on this creating these comics I tried out all kinds of different papers, different pens, coloured markers, water colours, leaving the images…