For my sixth year of #100DaysProjectScotland, my project was drawing whatever I fancy, but on shrink plastic, so transforming them into something tangible. And I wanted to be pretty selfish with my choices, so there were some niche references!
In 1986, Vancouver celebrated the city’s 100th birthday by installing 100 plaques around the city. For my fifth year of #100DaysProjectScotland, my goal was to find all of them – creating a little guidebook to the city’s history. However, family circumstances stopped the project after 30 days.
For my third year of #100DaysProjectScotland, I celebrated the first 100 Canadian women pilots. Canada has seen some amazing women pilots and, while some of them are well-known and honoured, a surprising number of the really early ones have been forgotten.
For my second year of #100DaysProjectScotland, I decided to make an illustrated family tree. I’ve been dabbling in genealogy for years, but scrapped everything and started from scratch again at the beginning of 2021. I now have seven almost complete generations with pretty solid sources and wanted to use the 100 days to pull everything together into one place.
For my second Inktober, I decided to take the official prompts and turn them into causes of death. I’m a huge fan of Edward Gorey, especially The Gashlycrumb Tinies, and I thought it would be fun to kill off a bunch of curious children.
I may be a Canadian citizen now, but I'm still Scottish at heart, so I thought that was a perfect excuse to take part in #100DaysProjectScotland! And I hoped a daily project would help brush away the lockdown cobwebs. Between June 3 and September 9, I drew 100 tiny costumes worn by black women in movies.
Inspired by Gabrielle Reith’s project in my hometown of Aberdeen, the Introductory Illustration class I’m taking at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and my love of Always Reading the Plaque-ing, I started a project to illustrate some of the historic buildings in Gastown.
My daughter is a huge fan of Sesame Street and I wanted to get her the portrait that hangs in Bert and Ernie's apartment. I couldn't find one anywhere, so I decided to make it myself!
