Why do people create things? Why do we make music, paintings, gardens, woodturnings, and write novels and comics and blogs, and anything else you can…
This week’s topic is Graphic Novels! Before I continue, let me say that the community of graphic artists and illustrators would like to reclaim ownership…
Pittsburgh is home to the Andy Warhol Museum, http://www.warhol.org. I recently spent an afternoon touring the museum and learned a thing or two. I thought…
As one collector told me, my sister is a ‘rock star’ in the world of woodturning. I recently accompanied her (www.marilyncampbell.ca) to Pittsburgh for the…
Learning to draw in perspective has been a challenge for me. I think I need a grade nine drafting class. One point, two point, and…
Is being a perfectionist a virtue? I don’t think so. It is one thing to work at a project or task to the best of…
There is inherent value in routines. They are useful tools to help us organize ourselves and our days. But, by their very nature, there is…
My good old fashioned hard copy Concise Oxford Dictionary defines routine as “1. n. regular course of procedure, unvarying performance of certain acts”. We all…
For me, one of the hardest things about creating these comics pages is starting the pages. That blank piece of paper. I always know…
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…