colouring outside the lines

Hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello The last blog post was #800. Five years after starting this blog I'm sayi...

Ah, summer. You are here and I am so ready. Now if only the weather knew it! This time last year I was harvesting cherries; this morning I ...

Oceans Seven I realized that I had one unsold drawing left from the Oceans Ten series at about the same time I discovered this Etsy shop , ...

It's almost Friday again and I haven't participated in Illustration Friday for many months,...

A crow's version of 'saving the world one video at a time'.

I was at a friend's birthday party in a restaurant on Saturday night when an acquaintance sat beside me. After a little inconsequential ...

Winter Filigree mixed drawing media on archival black paper (Stonehenge) framed to 21.5" x 21.5"

Adam has never really taken any art, though he draws some pretty imaginative stuff on a regular basis, so I'm tickled that he's deci...

It's the last week of classes before exams and summer holidays so when I saw this I knew I had to surprise the boys with KISS sushi for...

I'm excited that I have almost finished this series of landscape drawings. By this time next week I hope to have packed up and shipped t...

Work is love made visible. (Kahlil Gibran) Grandpa Walton once said something along the lines of, "The only important things in life a...

This weekend we get to see the start of the high school graduation shenanigans of this handsome young lad, but last weekend we escaped to th...

A bunch of guys painting beer signs on the side of a building in New York City. It's not the sort of thing that you would expect to brin...

Five years ago today I wrote my first blog post and here I am, 788 posts later, still doing it. Who knew a whim would turn into an ~ahem~ ...

I'm pretty proud of the fact that I managed to finish this drawing. From a dog that got skunked on Friday and brought it inside (not to ...

I don't know who the cartoonist is, but if I did I'd give him/her full credit as this is right on target. So much of the art I'm...

I don't do portraits as part of my painting practice. Human portraiture requires a different kind of focus and doesn't really intere...

Life in the fast lane finally eased up yesterday after the band exchanges (Carl) and the school's annual theatre company production (Ada...

12" x 9" coloured pencil on black archival paper I drew this from a photo I took when I visited Ruxton Island almost four years a...

This has been a weird year of hurry-up-and-wait for me. My kids are on the cusp of adulthood, and though I have regularly been shamed by m...

I'm beginning to think that my approach to art has been all wrong. While I've been bogged down with the mundanities of personal visi...