SotD: Windsor Community Museum

An illustration for my upcoming article on our local history museum. From left: the top of a buckskin “gun-bag” with seed-bead work and tassles, a gilded wood-carving of the Holy Family, and prehistoric vessel and tools.

I’ve always been keen on local history but I learned a few things while writing the article. I knew the museum was a French-Canadian farmhouse that was taken over as headquarters for the British and American armies in the war of 1812, but I didn’t know it was also the site of a battle in 1838!

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

I’ll add a link to the article on Tuesday, when it’ll be live.

SotD: Centre for Teaching and Learning

Like Parker Palmer, I’m a teacher at heart. I live strangely deep when I’m teaching. I’ve taught children and adults, both are fantastic. I take any opportunity to engage with learning communities. And, so, when the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Windsor held their annual Sumer Series of workshops, I signed up. I signed for them all. And then… I was too sick to go to any but the very last.

I was possibly too ill to be at this one too, but I took the risk. And I made this sketch of the fabulous Michael Potter demonstrating his mad chart paper and marker skills for us. I used Inktense pencils with a watercolour Moleskine and Aquash waterbrush. It was really handy to sketch quickly (teachers move around a lot, don’t you know) with the pencils and add some shading with washes. It’s one of my favourite techniques.

I made this sketch for a special purpose. I’ve just begun writing for WindsoriteDOTca, a hyper-local news blo. And this was my first-ever story.

You can catch my new column here, at WindsoriteDOTca.