Fresh update with 4 new Paintings, 1 new Sketch and 3 new Inking pieces.

The show at The Blue Tomato went well and will be continuing till the end of December - there were a lot of great pieces, and it was nice to see the variety of art that Peterborough has to offer.

With all the crazyness of this month I have a lot to do in terms of gift making, but that also means more creations to upload here! Till next time!

Didn't mean to wait so long between updates, but that hasn't meant that I haven't been busy!

There are 14 new pieces in the Gallery including Paintings, Sketches, Sketch Cards and Tactile Art.

There will be more updates to come including my Every Wednesday photo project that I've started being added to the site and uploads of new paintings for a show in the new location of The Blue Tomato in downtown Peterborough!

Though its been a while since the last update, it doesn't mean that I haven't been busy with art!

My first big order was to do a bit of restructuring to my website, making things easier to navigate along with launching my Little Bean Creations Big Cartel Shop!

What is handy about that is unlike my Little Bean Creations Etsy Shop you don't have to sign up for a free account with the site to buy online!

Both shops will offer the same items as well as different products, but in the end add a level of ease for those who don't wish to sign up for a free Etsy account but still would like to buy something from me.

Aside from website restructuring, there will be more updates involving paintings, jewelry and other art work along with new things to buy.

Had a great time at the Toronto Paradise Comic Con and met some amazing artists that I admire and got some great deals on trades and comics.

There are 3 new pieces in the Sketch Cards Gallery and 13 new pieces in the Sketches Gallery!

If you don't know who Ramon Perez of Transmission-X, Danielle Corsetto, David Petersen or Blair Kitchen are then you have no excuse now!

A photo upload of some new crafting pieces will have to wait sadly - since coming back from the Convention I'm not feeling too hot and I'm going to take it easy, drink some green tea and watch some Achaeloogy Programming and some Horror movies.

After the Toronto Paradise Comic Con (just as a spectator for now!) look for a big upload of art cards, sketches and photos of things in the works!

Boxed Monster Stickers are officially for sale on my Little Bean Creations Etsy Shop!

Five new entries in the Crafting Gallery section including Boxed Monster Postcards, Boxed Monster Stickers and a plushie prototype along with Stitch Markers and my Pin Pricks pin cushions.
The Stitch Markers and Pin Pricks pin cushions can now be purchased from my Etsy Store Little Bean Creations.

The link for my Etsy Shop can also be found in a permanent place on my main page in the lower left hand side.

Didn't mean to have such an large site hiatus, but I'm back with a nice fresh design and new things in store!

I'm open for a larger variety of Commissions now as well as the page being broken down into categories.

I have my Little Bean Creations Etsy Shop up and running with more stuff to be added soon and more pieces to be added to the Gallery section!

° March 18, 2008 °

One new addition to the Sketch Cards Gallery!

Big update of 6 Paintings and 1 new upload in the Sketches section in the Gallery!

I'm working on finalization of Plushie designs and hope to have a few of them up online for sale soon!

The webpage for the Charity Auction is now up and can be found here for a list of the contributing artists (along with my own name on the list) as well as the eBay link where the auction will be held here
They have also set up a donation button if you wish to donate instead of bidding and also have a link for getting an alert sent to you when the auction goes live. The auction will last for a total of seven days.

Sadly there is no way I'll be able to attend the live gallery showing, though I'm sure it'll be a great event for all who attend.

Now back to my paints and sewing machine...

Got a big BIG update!

The Commissions section is officially live and I am now accepting Boxed Monster Painting commissions as of today! If you're interested, head on over to that page for more details.

I've also spiffed the website's graphics up along with tweaking the FAQ section.

Soon to come will be another painting size joining the Paintings section of the gallery!

Just did a quick update to the Store section with my new banner for my etsy store!

It may seem like a while since I've updated, but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy! I've been painting Boxed Monsters one of which was the largest I've done to date at 11x14 for a commission, designing more plushies to make up, designing tags for them so that I can get them up for sale, being out of service for a week because of a nasty kidney infection that strong antibiotics took care of and being a part of a very special cause.

To quote: "Blue Line is sponsoring a Sketch Card Gallery Exhibit on March 8, 2008 at Comics2Games in Florence, Kentucky. This show is open to all artists. Blue Line will send sketch cards for the artist to do their illustrations and Comics2Games will set up the display for the event. The Exhibit will be up all day with a get-together with some of the artists from 5 to 8pm that evening. Then, after the show, the cards will be auctioned on eBay with the proceeds donated to the American Cancer Society."

To this end, I've done 3 charity sketch cards for their exhibit and auction - losing my last Grandparent - my Grandpa - to leukemia last August, I saw it fit to participate in this. Though I'm Canadian, my Grandpa was American and lived and died there and I hope my contribution can help. Since I've been interested in doing Sketch Cards for a while, I decided to have the charity cards that I made kick start a new gallery addition Sketch Cards that I hope to add more to along with taking commissions, pricing to follow up shortly.

I will be adding the paintings I've recently completed to the Paintings gallery once I get better photos taken - the one's I took I wasn't satisfied with.

So there you go! A quick version

Not only has the Sketches gallery gone live today, but it has 9 pieces to start off with!

There is also a new addition in the Crafting gallery too!

Updated the Paintings gallery with 4 new paintings today with more updates coming up!

First off Happy New Year to one and all!

I did a bit of tweaking to the site including a brand spankin' new header that I whipped up via Illustrator/Photoshop one-two punch and boosted my etsy store Little Bean Creations banners as well that can also be seen on this site.

Coming up will be another plushie to debut in Crafting as well as updates previously mentioned.

Have a good one!

There's been a lot of madness going on this month, so only a couple of updates.

There is a new piece in my Digital Colour gallery and the inks of the same piece are located in Ink Work gallery.

Upcoming updates include 3 new paintings and the launching of the Sketches gallery - I have over 35 pages to scan! Along with Commission info on how to get your own personal Boxed Monter painting from me!

I hope everyone out there has a wonderful Holiday Season no matter what you celebrate and stay safe and a Happy New Year!

A bit of a wait for an update, but with it comes the announcement of my launched online store on Etsy Little Bean Creations that currently has 3 Boxed Monster Paintings for sale! In the future I hope to upload more handmade items to have for sale there and will update here when new items are available.

The Store now has a banner for my Etsy store that when clicked on, opens a new window to my Etsy site.

If you'd like a peak at what will be up for sale in the future, take a look at the Crafting section for its latest edition. Also the paintings that are up for sale are going up into the Paintings gallery as well.

And finally a new section is up answering some possible questions you might find yourself asking about my site FAQ aka Frequently Asked Questions.

After a bit of a hiatus, I have officially redesigned and revised the look of my site so that it has a better and sleeker flow with more organization for easier viewing.

Two new sections have also been added to my site, that being the Commissions and the Store sections. Though they are not up and running yet, they will be shortly for you to take a look through!

New gallery sections are also going to be launched shortly as well as new artworks in galleries that are already live.

So sit back and I hope you enjoy the new look!