Pet Sketches - Chloe and Violet

A precious pair of puppers! For this drawing, I used a lot of light blue, peach and lavender intead of straight grey. I remember my high school art teacher saying white and transparent objects were about the colours you couldn't see.

Pet Sketches - Snooki

Snooki is such a cutie patootie, I had to draw her twice :-)

Pet Sketches - Pancake

It was with Pancake's picture I decided to really lean into only doing close-ups of faces. Sometimes trying to draw the whole body is a challenge! I made a mask to sponge paint on for his glorious whiskers.

Pet Sketches - Oswald

2025 was the year of the doodle dog! I think I must have drawn 5 or 6 doodles and silly Oswald was the last of them :-) His different coloured eyes really threw me off!

Pet Sketches - Huntress

More than one picture from 2025 had me wishing the drawing would never end. I don't know if that makes sense--I just enjoyed making the picture so much that I was a little sad when the picture was finished :-D Huntress' portrait had some challenges that were resolved once I realized one of the eyes was a little off.

Pet Sketches - A

I drew a cartoony version of A back in 2023 and his human returned for a realistic version. The pose was challenging, but in the end, worked out very well!

Pet Sketches - Alfie

A deluxe sketch for Alfie! He ran away from home, but happily returned :-)

Pet Sketches - Bigsby

Bigsby's portrait is one that took a while to ideate, and many conversations with one of his humans, but the result was so worth it! So many layers came together to make a very personal picture.

Pet Sketches - Sterling

Photos don't do Sterling's portrait just--this paper piece used many layers of vellum to create the water and glitter accented his coat and sand!

Pet Sketches - Pam

Pam is the third of three rabbits I was commissioned to draw this year. She came with such a cool backstory--her human found her amongst the dandelions, eating a piece of apple! I knew this picture called for something more special than a traditional drawing :-)

Pet Sketches - Hunny

Hunny is a total cutie patootie! It took a while to finish her picture because there ws some distortion in the reference photo and the position of one eye kept bothering me until I fixed it.

Pet Sketches - Nami

Handsome and snuggable Nami's pictures were done in-between my artistic growth spurt. It was a bit of a struggle between the past and the present!

Pet Sketches - Dracula

It sounds silly to say, but there are pictures where I experience a little bit of sadness when they're finished. Dracula's portait was one of them--I really enjoyed the process from drawing, cutting and final assembly!

Pet Sketches - Potato

Potato is a special little guy--so special I added a bonus sketch! The first portrait turned into an accidental papercraft picture--I gouged the background and the only way to fix it was by cutting him out :-)



Potato is equally regal and playful!

Pet Sketches - Char Char

I drew three bunnies this year--a new record!

Pet Sketches - Oscar and Mcgyver

A layered picture piece featuring kitties Oscar and Mcgyver. Pencil crayon, PanPastel, paper, ink and rubber stamps all came together for one unique 6x6" piece!

Pet Sketches - Pomeranian Pair

Two pets in one picture often poses a problem--one looks good and then the other looks a little wonky!

A pair of scissors to the rescue! I ended up layering different pieces of this picture and the poms look so cute on a blue background!

Pet Sketches - Panda

Panda's picture was another one where I stopped and couldn't believe I had created it. Panda is so perfect--from the shaded eyes to the tiny mouth!

Exhibition - Naturally Occurring January 30-April 4, 2026

I'm pleased to announce that I am once again exhibiting at the Quenten Doolittle Memorial Gallery inside the Pumphouse Theatre.

My hand-cut cardstock silhouette, "Canada Goose", will be on display until April 4, 2026. It is also for sale. Please check out the other artwork as well :-)

Pet Sketches - Indiana Bones

One of the cartoonier pictures I've done. It took a lot of sketches to get to the final picture :-)

Pet Sketches - Bernoulli

I drew a pet celeb at the 2025 Calgary Expo! Bernoulli is one of three puppers from Bunsen Berner BMD. Bernoulli absolutely loved the family cat, Ginger, hence why he's got a kitty pin on his lapel. Follow them for science and shenanigans :-)