My latest acrylic work is very similar to my early paintings. I focused on my favorite colour (green) and aqua blue to create an ocean landscape. The best part of… Read more Green, blue and gold leaf abstract acrylic on canvas →
Greetings, My latest acrylic work was recently on display at the Toronto Trap x Art show at The Boat Restaurant in Kensington Market, Toronto. It was a hip hop/ urban show with fantastic music, body painting, and live art displays. I was fortunate enough to be invited to display my art along side other emerging Toronto artists. This was the first time that I have ever displayed my work in a freeform venue where I needed to bring my own hardware (easel, display grids etc). When I realized that I… Read more Trap X Art Toronto →
My latest work is a study in portraiture. It was an unexpected leap to go from illustrating portraits to painting them. I had a few gut-wrenching interludes, yet I found myself happy with the finished work. I enjoy painting details with fine brushes. Usino a watered-down high quality black acrylic, I achieve an easy flow to outline each figure. I’m having so much with this and I am excited to see what I develop next. Thanks for stopping by, S
Greetings! I love autumn. It is my favorite season. Warm afternoons, cool mornings, and the perfect nights that require blankets with an open window are plentiful during this time of year. Autumn is also a fairly busy time of year. Many of us are returning from summer vacations are are back to the daily grind. There are many art shows as well that pop up as the year comes to an end. I had the pleasant opportunity to participate in an art exhibition early in September of 2019. The show… Read more Vaughn Ontario Culture days →
Greetings! I am working on a series of animal illustration that feature bright colors to elicit excitement. Please take a look. Do you enjoy this style of illustration as well? Thanks for stopping by! S
Greetings! I have been trying my hand at using humor in my illustration work. I like to think that I can be quite funny, but telling jokes is not one of my strengths. I often mix up the details of a joke by telling the punchline too soon, or by laughing at the joke before I have finished telling it. I am better at giving witty remarks and comebacks than telling structured jokes. I always marvel at standup comedians who are able to recall hours of jokes and retell them… Read more Llama unicorn illustration →
One of the things I like the most about illustration is that it allows me to express ideas in a diverse way. I have more freedom to explore ideas that normally would have been difficult to attempt with paint and canvas. Furthermore, with illustration I can use technology to copy and paste multiple sketches, change their size, and manipulate the scenery much easier than before. The above illustration is an example where I have used technology to manipulate a previous sketch of myself into a 3 panel repeat illustration. I… Read more Illustrating comics with 3 panels →
Sometimes I think to myself: “Stephanie, your artistic practice is bipolar.” I tell people that my artistic practice started in 2012 with sewing, but I suspect it started long before… Read more Afrocentric Fairy illustration →
