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 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....
Prints, pastels, and 1990s Pyra really shoulda kept better records
Saturday again. I just got back from dropping another trunkful of stuff I don’t need anymore off at Value Village (and there will be a bunch more) along with renewing my membership at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, which I almost forgot was running out in a couple...
Best of Ricky B.: week ending May 19, 2023
As mentioned in the last Saturday blog, I’m posting these as separate weekly blog posts now. So, the week’s favorite rendering of Ricky B. is this one: To see all the Ricky works, follow @ricky_b_rat on Instagram or Ricky B on Facebook… the latter of which was just set...
Clarinets, prints/other artmaking, and the coronation
I guess the biggest news of the week is of course the coronation. I was asleep at the time, of course, but just watched the replay from the Royal Family’s channel: I’m not a big monarchist, though all things considered if you have a decent king, it can be...
New batch of Ricky B monotypes
Popped into the beginners’ printmaking drop in at Ladysmith Arts today and made a few Ricky B. Rat monotypes. All of these have at least 2 layers if not 3; backgrounds first, then Ricky on top. I used ghost prints as well as the usual first pull. The paper...
Spring clean-ups, bees, and blooms
Well, I spent all day out in the garden yesterday and got a sunburn… I really should know better by now… really, I should… Guess I’m cancelling this week’s IPL face-zapping. And while I’m whining, I think I have a cracked filling. Guess I know what phone calls I...
Whole lotta art stuff going on this week
Another week down. I was at a monotype workshop today, pics on that other post. Speaking of Ricky B., it was time to set up his very own Instagram, even if there’s not real followers yet: https://www.instagram.com/ricky_b_rat/ So, on that note, here’s the favorite Ricky sketch of the week:...