by wpadmin | Mar 6, 2024 | Courses, Workshops & Education
Last weekend, the brave folks at the Huronia Museum in Midland, Ontario hosted their first dog friendly workshop. Combining the Indigenous storytelling experience with a collaborative painting class, this workshop was a fundraiser for the museum and Ontario SPCA...
by wpadmin | Feb 9, 2024 | Courses, Workshops & Education
Last year, along with writing and illustrating my first picture book, I added schedule quarterly professional development days to my list of intentions. As a self employed graphic designer, my days often get filled with client projects, so it felt important to make...
by wpadmin | Jan 19, 2024 | Courses, Workshops & Education, Picture Book Development
This week was a lot of fun! We learned a lot about the importance of making dummy copies of our books to test out the format, page turns, pacing, etc. To make mine, I scanned in the thumbnails that I made last week, enlarged them a little, added text in InDesign, then...
by wpadmin | Nov 16, 2023 | Courses, Workshops & Education
Eek! Here we go! In September, I celebrated 20 years of being a self employed graphic designer. Perhaps because of that milestone, one of the goals I set for myself this year was new: to write and illustrate a picture book inspired by my old English sheepdog...
