Category: Art

Best of the Bono Mouse sketchbook: week ending June 26, 2023

My favorite of this week’s Bono Mouse sketches: Markers, as usual, plus Pilot pens, since most of this spread is from this week other than the large drawing on the left-hand page. (Fuller explanation of what this project is about at the bottom of this post.)...

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...

Best of the Bono Mouse sketchbook: week ending May 29, 2023

My favorite of this week’s Bono Mouse sketches: Technically cheating as there’s 2 from this week, the one on the left being the last of the “blank spreads” drawings from last Monday night done with markers, and the right being done a couple days later with a Pilot pen....

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....