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This is a section of a very large drawing. The entire drawing was a massive doodle that could be used in a children's book one day.

From a figure drawing session in North Vancouver.

Part of a huge doodle. Started as a doodle while I talked to a friend on the phone. She was one of those non-stop-don't-interupt-me talkers. I got hours of work done while on the phone. It ended up being purchased by our local public gallery for $4,000 bucks. Not bad! And I may use it in a future children's book.

Instead of a sketchbook I draw - doodle - on a table top sized sheet of 100lb paper. This allows me to cross-pollinate visual ideas more easily.

Tim was a great model. He started shy and then became emboldened when the women in the class wanted him to return soon.

Steve is a musician and head sound engineer for Microsoft in Seattle. I drew him after visiting, trying to capture a bit o the otherworldliness of his music.

From a Victoria drawing session.

This is a section of a larger drawing to be used in a children's book - one day in the future.

A portrait of a friend.

My three nieces doodled all over the background of this canvas and I did the painting of Neve in the foreground. I'll get my other two nieces painted in the summer.

An image for an upcoming poetry book, using lots of crosshatching with Rapidograph pens.

This is a combination of pen and ink, watercolour, pencil crayon, and marker.

This very small sketch/doodle, enlarged, inspired a six foot tall painting. The background on the painting is incomplete. I'm back at this work in progress based on this small image from a sketchsheet. This painting will appear at my solo show in Thunder Bay in a couple years.

This is an image I used for a poetry book.

One of my favourite drawings. You can tell I was really on that day. So few strokes of the pencil caught shape and light. I won't sell this drawing.

This is Tim. Tim was shy until he discovered that he was a great model and he was the women's favourite male model for out sessions.

This is probably a 15 minute sketch, maybe less, done in a drawing session in Victoria, B.C.

When I lived in Victoria, B.C. I ran a figure drawing session for the local illustrator's society. Often I would head over to other drawing sessions. This is one run by a local gallery.

Doodling will give you ideas for projects that you didn't expect. The characters for my book, Flight of the Silk, came from sketches. This picture is one illustration for the book.

This is a quick sketch I did of a shirtless man on a bus.

A twenty minute posed captured in a figure drawing session in North Vancouver.