Purple Pony Art Blog

Thank you everyone for an excellent expo! I missed all y'all in 2024 and rebooked for 2026.

It was so awesome seeing old friends and faces and meeting new ones. It warmed my heart to hear how much the pet sketches mean to past customers and that you were looking for me last year, aw!

I'm unpacking and organizing today, but stay tuned for the remaining $10 sketches.

This year's response was amazing! Next year, I will only do $5 sketches at the table to keep things moving throughout the show.

If you placed an order, I'll be in touch soon!

The best place to see all the commissions is my Facebook page or Instagram.

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I'm still fulfilling orders from the comic expo, so I'm behind on most of my socials. You can stay tuned on my Facebook page or Instagram though!


Hi friends, I'm behind on all my socials because I'm trying to complete a pet portrait a day. I hope you're all doing well. I have 16 orders left to go, whew!

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I decided to bow out of the comic expo this summer. A lot of my artist alley peeps also decided to do the same thing. It's hard to predict when Alberta and British Columbia will be getting COVID vaccines for the general population and July feels unlikely.

Fortunately, there wasn't a penalty to move my table to 2022, so I wasn't out my $346. This surprised me--but it's nice that the convention realizes the extenuating circumstances. It was easier to move it than prepare and fret and plan and then have to cancel. The Big Four Building gets plenty hot, crowded and stuffy even in normal times. I have no idea if the Stampede is going to happen in a modified format either. I'm not a huge Stampede or rodeo fan, but the carnival atmosphere was fun.

I'm waiting to see if another convention that I rolled my table over last year will be going ahead this year. I think most spring and summer conventions will have it figured out by April :\

LOL, at comic shows I don't mind drawing any animal that people want. I actually drew two unicorns at the Red & White Comic Card and Toy Show. My young customer was quite pleased with how her unicorn turned out. I enjoy talking to the young folk about drawing and always ask them to make sure that I'm getting their idea right. Remember when you see a child at a craft or comic show, they might be a customer too. Please don't push them aside, interrupt or talk over them :-)

I had a blast tabling at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo. I have blogged about the show before - there's something for everyone there, even Grandma! Each year the show gets bigger and bigger and this year there were a lot of changes. The one that impacted me the most was that the entire Artist Alley would be housed in the Big Four Building, far away from the main action at the BMO Centre. This turned out to be a great move, as the foot traffic was amazing. I'll write more about the show because I'm still kind of sore and tired from standing, sitting and lugging the show suitcase around, but here's a sample of some of the on-demand pet sketches that I did. They were so popular that I have to snail mail out the ones I couldn't finish. If you want to see more, check out my Instagram (calzephyr77).

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I have been in super biz mode for the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo. This is my last weekend to wrap up all the things! Last year my to-do lists had to-do lists, but I am much more organized this year. I just have to print some prints, package some art and make sure all the little things are taken care of. It's going to be a fun time, I can't wait. My friend and I are sharing a table.

Thanks to Mike Rieger for the nifty graphic!