Category: Art

Old artwork: “Cutoff Pass”

Art work I’d completely forgotten about, found in an old box of small blank canvases tucked under my stairwell… starring someone I used to know and his “snow” habit, lol… Glad to be rid of the snowman, but I kinda like the painting so who knows… maybe I’ll frame...

Some recent rats and mice

Long time no post, sorry, blah blah blah… I’ll be doing some sprucing up of this joint in a month or two, but in the meantime let it be known my life is still infested with cartoon rats and mice as I work on the first of the Ricky...

A few pastels – spring 2023

A little video I made showing some of the pastel drawings I made during the “Pastels and Nature” class at the Vancouver Island School of Art, plus some cartoons I did in pastels aside from classwork (including a rare non-mouse Bono drawing!): Spot the complaints from Ricky towards the...

Best of the Bono Mouse sketchbook: week ending June 19, 2023

My favorite of this week’s Bono Mouse sketches: Markers, as usual… and the one I’m counting here is the lower left sketch as the other one was already there. (Fuller explanation of what this project is about at the bottom of this post.)...

Best of Ricky B.: week ending June 2, 2023

This week I posted some of the monotypes I did of Ricky on Saturday along with the usual cartoons and a pastel drawing when I’ll post on social media on Sunday. I think my favorite, though, is the “bonus” cartoon I drew this afternoon from a prompt in Ladysmith...

A few Gelli plate monotypes of Ricky B. Rat

I got around to playing with my gelli plate to try to make some monotypes at home similar to what I can do in the studio with a press. I still have a fair amount of experimenting to do to get the Goldilocks linework – just the right thinness,...

Best of Ricky B.: week ending May 26, 2023

As mentioned in the last Saturday blog, I’m posting these as separate weekly blog posts now. This week I messed around with portraying Ricky in pastels as well as the more usual ink drawings (no monotypes this week). So, I think for the week’s favorite rendering of Ricky B....

Best of the Bono Mouse sketchbook: week ending May 22, 2023

My favorite of this week’s Bono Mouse sketches: Done with a purple Pilot pen. I’m down to only 2 blank spreads in the book, so it’s almost time to start going through the spreads that only have a drawing on the one page to fill in all the blank...

Best of the Bono Mouse sketchbook: week ending May 15, 2023

As mentioned in the last Saturday blog, I’m posting these as separate weekly blog posts now. And yes, I’m cheating, because this is from a week ago Sunday, but oh well. Done with markers, and the reference is from last fall during his book tour. (Fuller explanation of what...