friends and family road trip reunion: day thirteen: portland: books, street art, food
Portland is as advertised: an interesting city with a lot going on. We both look forward to returning, perhaps before or after a family visit. We got only a taste…
Art
friends and family reunion road trip: day eight: long-distance friends meet up in san francisco
Yesterday, after we dropped the pups at daycare, Allan and I took the BART into the city, but got off at separate stops. Allan was meeting a blog-friend (someone we…
After only two days in Nomad Sculpt…
Who nose? … it’s clear I’m a genius
How Dar Jacir Supports Artists in Exposing Colonialism
In Bethlehem a group of artists founded an organization, Dar Jacir, which set out to support artists in Palestine and beyond. Dar Jacir is a an art and research centre…
drum
twitter.com/dougsamu/status/1408841351073087494 A #Procreate #Artmash prompt prompted putting this together.
Standard Apology form
This has always helped before. Let’s try it again.
Drawing London’s overlooked birds
I don’t bother much with the video export out of Procreate, but this cartoon is a bit of fun to watch being drawn. Sometimes I do dive in and draw…
Pete Beard’s Unsung Heroes of lllustration
This just popped up in my feed. Wonderful. Kurt Weise alone as covered in just this recent video was a standard in my search through books at Landon Library on…
The buildings
. Been fussing with this for a while. Left it alone for a while. it might be finished.
My own comic jam
Realizing I really do miss the comicjams, I dove in. Drawing this prompted by missing the sometimes odd results when an image is handed off led to my completing a…
Pandemic projects
I should be working on this; But I’m working on this: I think I never established the proper discipline. And I miss the Comicjams terribly. Hey! It’s a pandemic lockdown!…
Why today would be perfect for a electric assist cargo bike
Spent $3 grand over the last two years on repairs to various electrical components on the Mazda. Finally donated the otherwise working vehicle I used infrequently because of the battery…
Musings on Art and Taste
Many years ago, I had a lengthy correspondence with a friend in another part of Canada about what constitutes art. His basic argument was that art was not neutral or…
Refocusing Londontlife
So many petty things got in the way of simply creating, posting, and sharing that the LondOntLife.ca site is shut down. It was a huge frustrating headache to fight my…
Refocusing Londontlife
So many petty things got in the way of simply creating, posting, and sharing that the LondOntLife.ca site is shut down. It was a huge frustrating headache to fight my…
Stop the nonsense
https://twitter.com/dougsamu/status/1388852412501352448?s=12 https://twitter.com/dougsamu/status/1388852412501352448?s=12 It is seminal. Find me there. https://samupress.ghost.io/ghost/#/site
Stop the nonsense
https://twitter.com/dougsamu/status/1388852412501352448?s=12 https://twitter.com/dougsamu/status/1388852412501352448?s=12 It is seminal. Find me there. https://samupress.ghost.io/ghost/#/site
Testing at Ghost
Much has been broken over the last months, and since the upgrade to a business level account and domains, these blogs have been nothing but a PITA. Nothing has made…
Robertson Davies and Alice Walker: A Review By Someone Who Has Never Read A Single Word They Have Written
Such a delightfully warm and witty man, Robertson Davies seems most definitely to be. He looks so severe, when you first look at his face, but then he speaks, and…