Art for me is not a job, it is not a hobby, it is how I meditate, it is how I connect to the unseen. Whatever medium I'm working with, the creativity is liberating. I want to share that peace.
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 | | I was making a cookbook and didn't want to photograph the ingredients, so I drew them.
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 | | Some nerd illustrations I did for my upcoming book Field Guide to the North American Nerd.
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 | | I had an idea for a Pirate Comic Strip. Then I realized it had already been done.
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 | | I love woodworking. So relaxing and you can actually use the finished work. These are handmade by me, not some factory somewhere.
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 | | I love to draw powerful women.
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 | | Lots of times I just scribble down an image with a ballpoint pen while I'm waiting for my food at a restaurant or for my kids to be done with activities. |
 | | I used to outline coffee stains on napkins and then name them as islands. Later I started making stains on purpose, with paint, outlining them and sometimes naming them and framing them.
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 | | So I am an anachronism...a republican artist. I'm none too pleased with our current administration, and rather than march around with a sign, I drew.
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 | | Strictly speaking this is photographic manipulation. I wanted some eerie images to include in my novella about a cursed forest where trespassers turn into trees.
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 | | I've been working on this adventure tale since I was seven and it keeps evolving. During a dry-spell of writing, I decided to draw some of the characters and scenes to get me out of my slump. |
 | | These aren't easily categorized. Some are for a website called Tillyville, some are for a kid's book I made about a lamb that dreams of what career he will have when he grows up. |
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| I don't have a studio. I don't disappear into the country for days or weeks to paint. I doodle on napkins or margins when the inspiration hits me (which is pretty much daily), and sometimes the initial idea is so neat I get some "real" art materials and see where the sketch goes. My themes are all over the place. Anything and everything can be a subject. I spend at least one Saturday a month making things out of wood. I can pass hours playing with Photoshop filters and not know I've missed dinner. I write short stories and novels and illustrate them for my own enjoyment and don't care if they ever get published. Sometimes I do local art fairs and make a few bucks. I also teach drawing and sculpting in Ottawa. If art gets to be about big money, it goes wrong, just like sports. Want a class? Go to http://www.ottawadanceacademy.com/Text/ArtClassesPacket.pdf
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| Ottawa Farmer's Market Home and Handmade Section
So yeah, I decided to exhibit some of my work at the Home and Handmade Market on May 21st. A little bit of everything. I learned a lot. My biggest enemy in an outdoor show was the wind. Even a slight breeze can prove disastrous if your booth isn't as anchored as you thought it was. LOL | | Classes at ODA
So I'm offering art classes at Ottawa Dance Academy over the summer. If all goes well, I'll do more in the Fall. | | Ottawa Art League
So i joined the Ottawa Art League yesterday and attended my first meeting. Pretty cool folks, very talented, and damn nice. Offered to teach a kids summer camp about cartooning. | | First Entry
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