Would this make a good illustration for a Children’s picture book? Currently writing and illustrating my first picture book. Everyone says I’d be really good at this but I’ve never done it before so I’m just stumbling my way into it. It’s a different way of working, worrying about feedback from editors, how I’m goingContinue reading “Welcome to my journey.”
Author Archives: lisangart
Mega Update
I finished illustrating the book for the Canadian Constitution Foundation! The publisher “loved the work and is excited.” Slotted to come out this Autumn, more on that later. In the meantime I’ve decided it’s time I write and illustrate my own children’s book. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do and everyone thinks I’d beContinue reading “Mega Update”
Buy Canadian Buy Local 🇨🇦
I’m not gonna pretend I understand what’s going on with the American Tariffs but we’ve always known it’s best to buy Canadian, buy local. Re-introducing Canada’s solution to buying local, is my portrait of Gordon Ghons! Canadian cousin and brother from another mother to America’s most beloved contemporary Artist Jasper Johns! Half majority and halfContinue reading “Buy Canadian Buy Local 🇨🇦”
I Love You, I’m Not Perfect but I’m Trying My Absolute Best
If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be? Let me start by saying I have 0 pets, but I got 2 toddlers who are just as messy! In the midst of the screaming, crying chaos, all I want them to know when things get crazy is that I love them,Continue reading “I Love You, I’m Not Perfect but I’m Trying My Absolute Best”
5 Things I Do For Fun
List five things you do for fun. Nobody ever talks about the importance of fun, but I can’t paint enough of it. Don’t underestimate the importance of Fun. It helps you learn, it makes things enjoyable, and it helps all of us to get along. I grew up under strict conditions, fun was not toContinue reading “5 Things I Do For Fun”
Soup Season
What snack would you eat right now? It’s winter and it is soup season. Everybody knows about Andy Warhol’s soup cans but do they know about my alias from 2016, Sandy Warhol who does paintings of soup? My new favourite soup is Costco chicken noodle where I shred up a Costco chicken and add mushyContinue reading “Soup Season”
To be an Artist!
What’s your dream job? I’ve loved art since I could hold a crayon 🖍️. I had to struggle to be one and I still do, not the art making part, but the career part. As a little girl my parents discouraged it, it’s not very practical for putting food on the table, it’s true, butContinue reading “To be an Artist!”
Clutter Is All Around Me
Where can you reduce clutter in your life? Where can’t I reduce clutter around me? Clutter is all around me. At my old apartment whom I used to share with my now husband, we used to have this corner we would pile all our unused clutter in and we termed it, “The Corner.” We evenContinue reading “Clutter Is All Around Me”
A Pandora’s Box
Cold winter days bring me back to this cozy duo. Some of my first furniture friends. In another life my mother is a mad scientist and my father, a skilled carpenter. I’ve come to realize every painting could be the start of it’s own series of children’s books and that is overwhelming to know, butContinue reading “A Pandora’s Box”
Children’s book with the Canadian Constitution Foundation 🇨🇦
What is your mission? To safeguard the realm of freedom of thought and expression, to excel and fascinate, through painting! A little bit about me.. I am a child of Chinese immigrant parents who came from China and Hong Kong in the 70s. Their past and upbringing was riffed with a hardship they never talkContinue reading “Children’s book with the Canadian Constitution Foundation 🇨🇦”