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A portion or all of the proceeds of the sale of some items go to meaningful causes.
Art is meant to bring joy. I hope you find a nugget of that here.
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Wearable Art! Useful Art!
Some of my work is available on RedBubble. This company gives independent artists like me a meaningful new way to sell my creations. I chose to work with this print on demand service because they’re carbon neutral, offer safe working conditions, and present a small footprint with 70+ high-quality products made in the most responsible ways possible.
Books Books! Glorious Books!!
Anyone Can Draw in Ten Sessions: Learning to Use Your Right Brain so You Can Draw What You See
I know that drawing is an acquired skill and anyone can learn to draw. I wrote this book as a way to share my methods after hearing so many people say, “I wish I could draw”.
All you need are some pencils, drawing paper and the willingness to tap into your passion for creating something of your own. Anyone Can Draw in 10 Sessions offers you skill building exercises that retrain your brain and your drawing hand. You’ll learn the secrets of seeing what’s right in front of you, and have fun along the way.
Inside you’ll:
- See historical proof that anyone Really Can Learn to Draw!
- Discover how your own brain has been messing up your drawing
- Learn how to trick your brain into drawing what you see through proven skill building exercises
- Gain time-tested tips, techniques, and step-by-step tutorials for drawing, using all of the Elements of Art, drawing Perspective, Contour Drawing and Measuring your objects to draw accurately
- Learn to Draw what interests you, and how to find your own expression on paper
- Get a special Bonus Chapter!
In just 2 hours a week for 10 weeks, you can begin your creative journey, and learn to draw anything from the world around you.
This is a full intensive workshop in a book. It’s time to embark on your creative journey. Pick up your pencil and begin today!
Paperback: 66 pages
Available in both digital and print.
We Be Dragons: An Empowering Colouring Book for Adults & Kids
A Colouring Book, to Inspire you to Embrace your Inner Dragon and Take Back Your World
Our world is upside-down at the moment, and some days there seems like no end in sight to the madness. My hope is that this book of dragons can inspire you to find peaceful moments and creative solutions through the meditative practice of colouring. Add colour any way you like, using crayons, pencil crayons, markers or paint. Have fun with patterns and texture, shading and blending. This is YOUR masterpiece.
Almost 30 original dragon illustrations and celtic dragon designs.
Paperback: 56 pages
Available in print only.
This Will Only Take a Minute | 100 Canadian Flashes
by Fiction Writers Global
Brevity is the soul of wit, as William Shakespeare wrote in one of his longer plays, Hamlet. Flash Fiction, brief stories, have become one of the most exciting sub-genres of contemporary fiction. In This Will Only Take a Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction, Guernica Editions features short short stories by Canadian writers from six words to 500 words in length, short stories from across the entire spectrum of Canadian writing and anything from stark realism to speculative fiction.
I’m proud to be sharing the cover with some fantastic talent.
Paperback: 200 pages
Available in both digital and print.
Send in the Clowns
by Fiction Writers Global
From King’s ‘Pennywise,’ to Kelly’s ‘Weary Willie,’ clown characters run the proverbial gamut from horrific to endearing. Fiction Writers Group, or FWG’s anthology, ‘Send in the Clowns,’ is a collection of stories selected to explore this range of themes and emotions.
Author and volunteer with FWG, Earl Chessher, started this project. He was lost to us before it was brought to press. I don’t have the words… xo
Paperback: 102 pages
Available in both digital and print.
I’m working on a new Wood Wide Web Colouring Book, with trees, mushrooms and all my favourite forest things.
Check back for that and more in the coming months.