If you haven't discovered the whimsical work of Emma Fitzgerald I encourage you to visit her artist site.

After trying my hand at reproducing some of Barbara Cooney's art from Christmas Folk, I thought I'd try reproducing something that was a little more playful, something in a so called cartoon style. Malcolm Livingstone's fun adaption of the classic Billy Goats Gruff from the My Big Book of Fairy Tales (1987), was just the challenge I needed. Livingstone's art is simple to look at but I found it difficult to imitate. The troll in particular took much longer to paint than I thou

Every Christmas my wife reads Natalia Belting's Christmas Folk (1969) to the children and we all love looking at Barbara Cooney's wonderful illustrations. Barabara Cooney's art is detailed, sweet, and inexplicably moving. I can't articulate the feeling her art evokes but if you are curious about her phenomenal career I highly recommend Dr. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal's 2017 wonderful piece in The Atlantic titled "What Would Miss Rumphius Do?" Below are a few of my attempts at mimic

Ross Farm Museum is a living heritage farm where the interpreters dress in period costume and perform the daily duties and responsibilities of early nineteenth century rural life. Settled in 1816 by Captain William Ross, his family, and 172 disbanded soldiers, Ross Farm is one of my family's favourite Nova Scotia Museums to visit year-round. If we don't get up to the farm this February we'll definitely be there in the spring once the piglets and lambs are born. The sketch abo