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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My sister, Rose Athena, took new profile pics for me this fall - I'm super happy with them!

Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This drawing came about just because of where I was in the book I'm working on...but I'm going to have to explore this more: it's ink on tracing paper, on a photo of a paper and ink tent I made in 2009. Bigger one? Couple angles? What would look like on a illuminated photo box? Ghost tent vibes...

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Turns out the book I'm working on includes a short intermission introduced by an endangered butterfly - who knew?

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Anyone else get very excited around the 1st of every month because you can finally request more books into your library's collection? #cpl #bibliophile

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Renegade Arts Entertainment @renegadeartsent.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Alberta Comics Love selected as a CBC comic of the year! Woo! 50 short comic stories about the joy of love in all its positive, diverse and quirky forms. Created by Albertan creators. Curated & edited by @alexanderfinbow.bsky.social @sheaproulx.bsky.social Emily Pomeroy & Hartley Rose.

Book covers for Cannon, The Antifa Comic Book, Alberta Comics Love (cover by Kat Simmers) and Muybridge.

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Thurs, Sept 11th, 7pm - @shelflifebooks is hosting the long awaited launch of Alberta Comics: Love This is the 2nd volume of the anthology I help edit, and I have a spicy comic in it too!

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I reprinted some of my fav zines for this, and made a new collab print with my booth mate, Nicole-The-Bride-Gruzsecki - so it's a little creepy and fun. Bet!

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Or you could order a different #canadianmothersdaygift from @renegadeartsent.bsky.social - Alice At Naptime is a trippy poetic lullaby of a graphic novel, from an indie Alberta publisher based in Canmore 🦫

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Looking for a #canadianmothersdaygift ? Just Happy To See You is a short illustrated book of humour and cheeky talking blossoms :) It's available online from the Conundrum Press website, printed in Montreal 🐦🦩🪽

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Another fun day at #calgaryexpo2025 : I got the best kind of commission, they said "do whatever you want" 😁

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Once again, it's almost time to load in for the @calgaryexpo ! You'll be able to find me in the @renegadeartsent section of the pro aisle - table P61! Can't wait to see you there! #shoplocal #mothersday #indie-publisher #albertamade #madeincanada #babygifts #kidsbooks #graphicnovels #comicexpo

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I forgot to bring my art trading cards to my last Botanical Drawing class at AuArts, so I'm mailing them out to the artists who gave me theirs :) Next session is May and June, Thursdays this time 🌸

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Comment: Canadian tariffs on US books will devastate Canadian bookstores. Indie bookstores could be forced out of business, and libraries will be hit hard. Most books are published in the US, even those by Canadian authors. Codes for tariffs opposed: 4901.10.00 4901.91.00 4901.99.00 4903.00.00

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Cause I draw at the dentist allllll the time, and thought I better paint about it too...

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I just got back from Edmonton yesterday. Jenn Long and I installed a super neat collaboration in the front window area as part of our duo exhibition at @gallery501 in Strathcona County. I'm so excited for this project, it's been years in the making 😍

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Usually I draw a bouquet at least once before it wilts. Very busy couple weeks up ahead getting ready for my show at Gallery 501. Will I squeeze in a drawing? Root for me!

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Holding a stick. I'm moving through the final to-do's for my duo-exhibition at @Gallery501 in Strathcona County (just outside Edmonton), with photographer Jenn Long. We're putting up a neat collab in the front window and I'm *almost* prepped for it - involves cool stencils 😎

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Shameless local-author/artist ad! The best way to get my books is at a local independent bookstore :) I get royalties when a library system brings in my books - ask for them, it really adds up! Thanks to @renegadeartsent & @conundrumpress printing in Canada! #supportlocal

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Throw back: self:portrait from 2003 or 04. Acrylic on canvas, just a wee one, 6 x 8 inches perhaps.

A young girl with her face surrounded by a feather-boa, dark makeup and high contrast and shadows make any detail in her eyes nearly invisible. Painted with a photo reference, that's been pixelated, but then meticulously recreated in acrylic, with colour separations in three blue shades, white and black. Full lips, unsmiling, she confronts the viewer, hair creeping across her face, perhaps a model mugging for a photo, or else a corpse seen through a crack in ice.

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Kat Simmers 💙💖 @katsimmers.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

So I guess fuck every other (fascist) app. I’ll be posting random work from across my 10+ years of study/practice here. First up is Ishmael from AuArts year 2 - circa 2015 Scratch board and ink

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Detail from an oil painting my husband and i have been working on for...20 years? It's probably his turn to work on it. Then again, it might still be mine.

A bald glowing green floating alien blob with a superfluidity of breasticles frowns atop a multicolored matrix of colour. Similar apparitions surround it.

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Nyco Rudolph @nycorudolph.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

8 years ago, inspired by mid century poster design and vintage hunting paraphernalia, I started drawing a series of dinosaur hunting/travel posters in the style of the old Canadian Pacific travel posters. This one was a direct spoof of a 1937 poster by Tom Hall. #dinosaurart #blueskyartists

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Attention attention: the waiting is over, at long last...you can suggest titles for the Calgary Public Library collection again 🙏

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Detail from "Slide Matrix" - I plan to paint the whole thing once more in acrylic and oil this time. Watercolour was a joy though, my biggest one this decade.

Watercolour painting with a nonsensical and still somehow meticulously rendered blue slide disobeying the rules of physics. It is either very small, or it is entangled with a gargantuan branch of pink crabapple blossoms. The sky might have whisps of cloud, or maybe it's just painted that way.

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Flashback to my show at @nvrlnd.bsky.social this fall: This is how the kids tell me it's time to throw in the towel and go home.

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

For take-your-kid to work day I took my teen to the Alberta University of The Arts (where I'm teaching Cont. Ed). We found an interactive art project to play around in. This IS such a fun place to work.

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Shea Proulx @sheaproulx.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

A favorite detail from a recent-ish painting. Hi Blusky, looking forward to building a community here 🩵

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