Could be in a dream Our clothes are on the beach These prints of our feet Lead right up to the sea No one, no one is here No one, no one is here We stand in the Atlantic We become panoramic And Who knows who wrote that song of
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cartoon life: Sometimes events just get away from you
One of the delights, and one of the devils are the same thing: the rapidity of electronic media. It allows immediate responses and demands immediate postings. And even the start of this image is buried beneath how easy it was to dive in, refine, refinish and cover up everything from
Continue readingcartoon life: Sometimes you need to look up.
The answer might be there.
Continue readingcartoon life: 100 cats are free!
What!??? Are you insane? I have set free 100 cats worldwide. Not on sale, but free! My ebook 100 cats on iTunes Bookstore is free worldwide. Except in America, Land of the Free where the .99 tariff continues, because the country is insane. 100 cats an animal art eBook with more
Continue readingThings Are Good: Coast to Coast Artistic Billboards for Resilience in Canada
Resilience (English) from MAWA Programs on Vimeo. Thanks to the Resilience art project from now until August art is being shown on billboards from coast to coast in Canada. You can locate billboards near you (or on your travels) via their map. It’s a creative way to use billboards to
Continue readingcartoon life: Having fun with brushes in Procreate.
A fairly restrained, maybe tentative use of a custom brush in Procreate. If you use the app, you can find that drip shape. Watercolour splotches are fun An unrestrained use of that drippy chain brush Working another brush where speed and light pressure produce big juicy blotches.
Continue readingcartoon life: American Midwest road trip photos
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mv5FYNM46BRJyA4E9 Google AI seems to have done a pretty fair job on curating and editing these photos. I think I may have had a hand in some filters on iPad, but there is a consistent bright and saturated feel I think I didn’t have much to do with. Nice set
Continue readingPostArctica: Christy Lee Rogers – 2018
I love her work, very Caravaggioesque and certainly reminiscent of Evergon’s giant Polaroids. And she seem to be always taking it up a notch, one of the more interesting working artists in the world today. For more amazing images check out this post.
Continue readingThings Are Good: This Artist Wants You to Buy All His Personal Data on eBay
Oli Frost got inspired by companies earning profit from his data and decided to sell it directly to anybody who wants it. He’s downloaded all his data from Facebook (and you can too) and put it up on eBay for anyone to buy. Proceeds from the sale of his Facebook
Continue readingcartoon life: New books
I’ve set up a Square store for online book sales. All books are a limited edition run of 20. $25.00 covers all shipping, handling and other annoying stuff. Check out It’s a LondontLife #1, a collection of local-to-london–ontario-canada editorial cartoons, and the latest cat drawing book, At least 22 cats
Continue readingcartoon life: A monstrous season
Predictions for the summer to come. These undirected wanderings of mind and hand sometimes work out.
Continue readingcartoon life: Politics! A cartoon
via Politics! Mix, when it was run by Paper by 53 was a great little creative social site. Art was offered as jumping points for improvisations. The monstrous creatures in this cartoon were not drawn by me, but the first creature was offered by another contributor. The modifications are my
Continue readingcartoon life: Mop nap 2
Hmmm… I think the colouring worked out well.
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: MINDFUL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE CAREGIVER
In photography, mindfulness is like observing something for the first time, even though you may have looked at it a thousand times before. For example, when you’ve been away from home for a long period, and then, upon returning, you suddenly notice things to which you had become so accustomed
Continue readingcartoon life: Shaggy mop nap
In Sketcha, using the ballpoint pen tool – far more scribbling than I usually do, but drawing her high highness’ shaggyness requires some different approaches.
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