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How to Make Money with Your Art

How to Make Money with Your Art

Over the years, I’ve managed to make design work a good chunk of my income. If you’re wondering how to become a designer, I will endeavour to teac...
Mood Boards and Why They are Important

Mood Boards and Why They are Important

I have always relied on mood boards when starting into a design phase for a product or pattern. Mood boards are a great reference point for startin...
Inspiring Artists Rex Ray and the Marimekko group - deloresartcanada

Inspiring Artists Rex Ray and the Marimekko group

Amazing, abstract and handcrafted, with a retrofuturistic feel, Rex Ray’s work is always identifiable, whether as fine art seen on museum or galler...
The Adventure Continues (the Surface Pattern Design quest, that is!) - deloresartcanada

The Adventure Continues (the Surface Pattern Design quest, that is!)

Today I’m back on the jag of my love of pattern design. I discovered this very special niche inside the art and design world while teaching in my h...
Why art journal? - deloresartcanada

Why art journal?

Hi again! I wanted to talk a little about one of my most enjoyable activities: art journalling. I journal for two reasons: one is for the pure joy ...
Pattern Crazy! - deloresartcanada

Pattern Crazy!

I LOVE creating patterns. Nature is probably the biggest inspiration for my pattern designs. My travels have taken me all over Canada and the US i...
Presenting Deloresart Canada, online! - deloresartcanada

Presenting Deloresart Canada, online!

Did I just decide one day to become an artist, or did the process begin when my mom first put that first pencil in my hand at the age of one or two?