I made this colouring illustration as an activity for my church’s 41st anniversary that everyone can do at home in these socially distanced times. Families coloured a postcard with the above illustrations at home and made a paper bouquet of flowers to with the postcard. We all took pictures and sent them back to compile together as a memory for this year’s anniversary. We’ve been doing church virtually for over a year now!

One year later, and so much screen time. They look forward to playing Roblox on the weekends after 5 days of virtual school. In between, everyone has new bikes and we try to get out for fresh air after getting through a long Canadian winter in a pandemic. On the drawing front, I’m drawing more loosely and have taken to using my almost dried up brush pen (Dried up because someone always comes and helps herself to all my art supplies!)

These two can stay out playing in the snow ALL afternoon.

Welcome to 2020. The world feels pretty upside down. All the more reason to note the good things even if they seem small, ordinary or routine. “The purest form of joy comes to us in ordinary moments, and those moments can happen any place where gratitude is alive” – Brene Brown.

Fall time harvest: On my IG feed, I’ve been seeing all the fruits and vegetables harvested at the farmers markets. This gives me some subject matter to try out as I test out watercolour and pencil crayon on hot-press paper. So different from the textured cold-press paper!

I watched Iraville’s tutorial on mixing skintones and attempted to mix various shades without using any white. I like how these faces spontaneously came up!

Watercolour sketch that I did for the MATS Editorial class – thinking about calm, soothing drinks.

Watercolor with details added in Photoshop.

I’ve been trying to do more quick sketches these days to get as many ideas down as possible (changing things up from the usual more slower line work that I do). I was working on something completely different, but of course, these two pop onto paper. (Ha!)