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2018 – The Halfway Mark
Hi! Wow! Was that six months already? I’m just kidding. I believe it. What has happened in the last six months? The House The biggest life change is that we bought a house! A sixty year old, desperately in need…
1st Urban Sketchers Calgary meetup
Back in July I joined up with a few other people for our first Calgary Urban Sketchers meetup! It was fantastic. I stumbled onto the community about a year ago and wondered how I could have possibly missed out on…
some people practice
Hi! Sorry this image is not an ideal size for a blog post – it’s so long it had to be sized to fit the blog I suppose! So in the interest of getting better at capturing people I…
Urban Sketching along Riverfront Avenue
I thought it would be fun to share some of my progress sketches to show a bit of my process as an extension of what you can typically see of my finished work on Instagram. Summer is in full swing…
Leaving the Comfort Zone
Okay okay, I’m a little nervous to announce I’ve just gone after my first really big commission. The City of Calgary is looking for artists to create banners for the bridges leading into the downtown. I’ve been driving under those…
#DBSLdrawsYYC – ing
My first post under that hashtag in awhile! Feels okay. One great thing about this leave of absence is I’ve been drawing a lot. Like every single day, sometimes for up to four hours at a time. Just getting lost…
New Year, New Hashtag: #DBSLdrawsYYC
Happy Friday! Three posts so far this month, colour ME impressed! Why the change? Because I’m so thirsty to keep creating these days! I’ve been taking those Urban Sketchers books I received for Christmas to heart – I have found…
Achieving Flow State – Have YOU felt it?
Somewhere along the line with all this drawing business I have grown aware of achieving a flow state while I work. It’s not there all the time – wonderful as that would be. At this point in the game for…
From Fashion Illustration to Urban Sketching: Part 2
Hi there! So here’s the thing. I want to resurrect this blog and bring it back to a regular routine on the internets – to share bits of my process, to explain my journey as an artist but also for…
Inktober 2015: When the Momentum Began
The last few posts have touched on my gradual transition out of fashion illustration and into Urban Sketching as a focus for my art work. I want to talk a bit more about how the momentum really started to roll.…