Memories of Japan – Homemade Sake Set
For the past year, I've been taking wheel throwing classes at my local arts studio. It's been fun to be able to go to class and practice pottery with others. I love exploring on my own but I also love how many new ideas come about when I'm with others pursuing a common goal. In this case, functional and creative pottery. I ...
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Sketchnotes – Organizational Anti-Racism Practices
This week, I attended a really thoughtful session through the University of Alberta on Organizational Anti-Racism Practices. The session was created and hosted by Angelique Bulosan and Julian Wilson. Here are the sketchnotes from that session. Sketchnote Explainer Angelique introduced a new change growth chart ...
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Winter Sunset Linocuts – Art Prints and Cards
One of the things I love about both the prairies and the mountains are the sunsets. They provide me with such solace and hope. One day, I was driving down the QE2 highway between Edmonton and Calgary and I had a brainwave for a set of linocuts. They are one part my prairie upbringing and the other part my present mountain ...
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Baker Lake in Banff National Park
This past summer, we went hiking up to Baker Lake. It's a hiking area near the infamous Skokie Lodge in Banff National Park. Our three day hiking trip started with a challenge - a huge rainfall after 3 weeks of wildfire smoke from B.C. We got 5mm of rain throughout the whole day and everything, clothes, backpacks, shoes, ...
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Creative Interventions – Collage Self Portrait
At work, I like to organize a fun meeting called "Creative Interventions" to keep our creativity muscles in good shape. I got the idea from an article by Gil Gershoni. They are completely voluntary and we have about 4 meetings per season. We've done them since Fall 2020 while working from home and covered topics such ...
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Going (virtually) to TCAF 2021
TCAF 2021 Poster by Cole Pauls Have you heard of TCAF? I hadn't until I discovered the comic book world. It's the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) and it is like THE gathering place for Canadian cartoonists/illustrators and publishers... maybe even North America. Especially, for Indie comics. I would have been SO ...
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Sketchnotes: Creative Responses to Crisis
Back in March, MacEwan University in Edmonton asked me to be the graphic recorder for their interdisciplinary forum, "Creative Responses to Crisis." This was my first LIVE sketchnoting event over Zoom and I learned a lot. There were 5 panelists with varied backgrounds in the arts and science. You can check out the story ...
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