Painting Watercolor in Procreate
I’d never dared to paint black skin before. I didn’t want to fall into the trappings of my eye telling me that black skin is a certain color.…
Filed underCreative Process
The beginning, the end, the middle, the detours, the tangents, the tears, the history, inspiration, destruction, construction and everything else.
Building Colour Palettes: More Instinct than Science.
I sit here in my studio/office, surrounded by a mess. I have so much stuff. It’s genetic you see, my father is a “collector,” and his studio is…
Terrible, Heavy Creative Block.
I’ve never heard of a tropical storm in Montreal, but we are getting one today.With a tropical storm on the horizon, the pandemic, and the insane amount of…
Notion App for Artists and Creatives
Featured image: Harriet Backer Many roads led me to the Notion app. First, it was Roman Muradov, the illustrator who created Notion’s branding. This app looked so friendly…
Different Mediums, Different Satisfactions
My favorite art materials. What a task it was to decide! I have a board on Pinterest where I collect images from people’s studios, as well as my…
Saying yes to your ideas
I’ve wanted to make a zine for the longest time, but as usual I have been “waiting for the right time, the right topic, the skills, the tools…
Art in Unexpected Places
Follow my blog on Bloglovin I was hard at work painting a dog, a Shiba Inu to be precise which has been so challenging. They tend to look…
The Mystery of Unfinished Projects
Some projects have been in my head for most of my life. They have never even set foot outside my skull. Other projects happened without intention or reason,…
Digital vs. Analogue illustration
An artist I follow asked on Instagram if when drawing digitally (on iPad or other) if it feels like cheating. I just had to comment but then the…
Montreal Brunch
One of the most intriguing things I’ve come across is how patient Canadians are when it comes to brunch. On Saturday I went for a walk along Rue…
Alejandra Pizarnik
Sometimes there is a world of words that want to come out but they don’t. They accumulate at the base of the throat and before you know it…
How do you curate your own artwork?
Short answer: you curate without mercy. I spent the week alone. My husband was traveling and I stayed home with my pup.Of course I had epic plans. And…