Bon Voyage cards

My friend recently went on a trip to Vancouver and I wanted to give her a card, then thought I should just make one...

Available now on etsy.

Baby Announcements

My friends just brought a little dude into the world and I had the honour of creating the baby announcements for the little fella...

The front of the card is cut in half...

So that when it's opened it reveals the little guy!

Close-up of the cover

And the inside cover

And the portrait!

Welcome to the world little Max!

Bye Bye Bunny

Last week I sold the last bunny print in the series. There were twelve, and now there are none! I'm glad that they've all found nice homes.

I'm about to start another round of these woodland guys. This time around I think there will be more bunnies or hares, some turtles, wood ducks, and maybe deer... And in honour of spring time (which is when they'll be done, hopefully) they will all have babies! Fawns! Ducklings! Um, baby turtles? Baby bunnies? Okay, so I just looked up the proper names of these animals. A baby bunny is called a kit or a kitten. This seems like something that I should have known. A baby hare is called a leveret. Weird. And a baby turtle is a hatchling. BORING. I'm going to call them turtlettes.

Printmaking course

I'm very excited to be instructing a printmaking course starting February 2nd at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. The course will mostly cover the basics for linoleum printing for beginners. I'm excited to share my love (obsession, really) of printmaking with other printing nerds. I'm hoping to cover basic black and white printing, 2 and 3 colour printing, reduction printing and perhaps printing on fabric. The course runs for 6 weeks, every Tuesday evening from 6 to 8pm.

If you are interested or know someone who is interested, here is the link to the course:

Harbourfront Printmaking Course

Valentine's Stuff

These little bears form a heart with their bellies when they are sitting beside each other. I have made custom bears in the past with initials stitched on the bellies. Here are these little fellows in my etsy shop.

This is the last print available in this tiny edition of 6. Here it is in the shop. SOLD! Thanks friends!

2010, Custom Portraits

I've started to do a lot of custom work and hope to do a lot more this year. I'm currently working on a custom baby announcement portrait (which I'll post soon) and recently I've worked on some custom pet portraits, pretty much my favourite thing to do. Click on any of the following images to see a larger version. Here are some kitties:

And here they are framed:

And some dogs:

If you're interested in commissioning a custom portrait of your pet, just send me an email.

Final show of the season

If you happen to be in the Port Hope, Ontario area this coming Saturday, December 12th, I'll have a table set up at the Christmas Farmer's Market. The show will run from 10 am to 4 pm in the Recreation Centre on McCaul Street. It will be a combination Farmer's Market/Arts Festival and should be a great show!

Thanks to everyone who came out to Winter Fling last Saturday. Here's my table...

My favourite part of every show is trading with the other vendors. Here are my scores...

This adorable little fella was made by Danielle of Stitch Face. Visit her etsy shop here.

And these amazing paper goods from Kid Icarus. Visit their website here.

I wanted to buy something from every single vendor that participated. Thanks to everyone at Winter Fling for organizing such an amazing show.