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Jason Toal

@samepagestudio.bsky.social

Visual & Digital Collaborator https://samepagestudio.ca/ Let's make stuff that matters.

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Marek Bennett @marekbennett.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“What do we mean by ‘THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION’?” ❤️‍🔥 John Adams (1818) Effecting REAL change in the "Minds & Hearts of the People"...

“What do we mean by ‘THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION’?” ❤️‍🔥 John Adams (1818)

Effecting REAL change in the "Minds & Hearts of the People"...

marekbennett.com

Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

kid koala @kidkoala.bsky.social · 6mo ago

(SOLD) Yeti Crab on Turntable. 2D Cel Painting. pen + ink, watercolour, gouache, acrylic on animation cel. #kidkoala #handmade #originalartwork

Grumpy Old Daniel @grumpyolddaniel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 7mo ago

{Captain America at the newsstand}

NOT AGAIN!

WE BROKE INTERNATIONAL LAW INVADING PANAMA!

NOW WE'RE BREAKING THE LAW AGAIN WITH THIS FABRICATED “DRUG WAR!"

WHY CAN'T WE LEAVE LATIN AMERICA ALONE ?!

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 9mo ago

Proctorio settles curious lawsuit with librarian who shared public YouTube videos

Librarian vows to stop invasive ed tech after ending lawsuit with Proctorio.

arstechnica.com

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thrilled to support my pal, Kat, on her new creative project Potato Nose: 1977, the graphic novel on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat...

Potato Nose: 1977, the graphic novel

A tragicomic memoir of pubescent anxiety and ecstatic delusion.

kickstarter.com

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌑 New Moon: Creative Source A new cycle begins in stillness and marks. Theme: Protecting the spark. Drawing from within. Inspiration: "I paint flowers so they will not die." — @frida-kahlo.bsky.social #NewMoon #CreativeCare #RememberYourMagic

On some pages from Frida Kahlo's sketchbook, many circles fill the page with faces in each one. Notes from a journal entry on the opposite page, a portrait bleeds through from the opposite side.

https://emilysnotebook.co.uk/all-posts/frida-kahlo-her-journal-intime/

Erik Rasmussen @erikras.com · last yr.

Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · last yr.

New comic: on the origins of Due Process, how fundamental it is to our very notion of freedom, and how we all must stand up for the rights for any one of us to preserve liberty for all of us. Alt-text, notes/process & printable version on my site, appreciate sharing spinweaveandcut.com/due-process/

Alt-text: A comics page in black and white, addressing the concept that a country is an idea - and ours is built on among other things the concept of due process (which goes back to the Magna Carta). Images and text all snake across the page across a backdrop of humans imprisoned, and packed together, becoming a black mass in the lower right. I’ve written full description of the imagery with all the text on my site at the link (can’t put enough characters here…)

Anonymous ⩜@youranona.bsky.social · last yr.

The image features a large, red, heart-shaped graffiti with drips of paint running down, giving it a raw, emotive feel. Inside the heart, the word "RESIST!" is boldly written in white, stylized, rough-textured letters. The background is a textured blue surface with varying shades, creating a stark contrast with the red heart. The overall appearance conveys a strong message of defiance and passion.

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

The stuff of legend Original post: norden.social/@DogRunner/1...

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌑 New Moon: Rooted in Renewal Theme: mentors, memories, and magic that shape the journey. Inspiration: "I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece." – @louisebourgeois.bsky.social #NewMoon #MentorshipMatters #RememberYourMagic

A drawing by Louise Bourgeois featuring a large, intricate, circular tangle of blue ink loops that radiate outward like the dense petals of a blooming flower. The loops are drawn in a continuous, overlapping line that creates a sense of energy and organic growth. From the base of the flower, a thin straight stem extends downward with two small leaves labeled "toi" and "moi" (French for "you" and "me"). The background is plain white, emphasizing the vivid, hand-drawn texture of the looping lines.
Artist: Louise Bourgeois (American, born France, 1911–2010)
Culture: American
Titles: Untitled - from the portfolio Homely Girl, A Life
Date: 1991
Place: New York, NY, United States
Medium: Blue ballpoint ink on wove paper envelope
Dimensions: Envelope: 6 9/16 × 4 13/16 in. (16.7 × 12.2 cm)

https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/30794/untitled-drawing-1?ctx=dc96832f5bf27c7d0fe68cda6686797480cd9cc1&idx=50

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

Experimenting with open educational resources in comic form. samepagestudio.ca/blog/2025/04... Everything in this work was human-created, EXCEPT the alt-text for which I used AI. Damn compelling how well the bot was able to describe my images. #OER #Accessibility #Comics #DigitalLearning

Open Resources – find them – use them – learn! – SAME PAGE STUDIO

samepagestudio.ca

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌗 Last Quarter Theme: Reflect and simplify, make space for marks. “Inspiration: "The grid is not the story, it’s the frame that gives shape to experience." - @nsousanis.bsky.social #makespace #markwhatremains #grids #gestures #nostos www.hup.harvard.edu/features/a-p...

"Where it all begins: a piece of paper is a magical place to think in ways you couldn’t otherwise. One of Sousanis’s spread layouts in process."
A rough sketch on grid paper, planning a comic book page layout. There is a spiral composition with scribbly lines and circles.
From an article in the Harvard University Press called "Answering the Siren’s Call: A Peek Inside Nick Sousanis’s New Comic Book Nostos"

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌖 Waning Gibbous Theme: Harvesting wisdom, connecting ideas, and sharing insights. Inspiration: "Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together,' and we all do this every day." - Corita Kent #WeCanBe

Title
we can be
Year
1978
Archive ID
78-12
Medium
Serigraph
Size
14"h x 20"w
Transcribed Text
we can be

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌕 Full Moon: Clarity, Celebration & Symbols of Meaning Theme: Storytelling through symbols—what image represents your journey this cycle? 🎨 Inspiration: "Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, symbol, and design." — Loïs Mailou Jones #SymbolsOfMeaning

Loïs Mailou Jones
American, 1905–1998
Esquisse for Symbols, D'Afrique II., 1983
Medium
Acrylic on wove paper
Size
30.4 x 20.3 cm. (12 x 8 in.)
https://nmwa.org/art/artists/lois-mailou-jones/

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌔 Waxing Gibbous: Momentum & Refinement Theme: Using color to express meaning, refining our work. Inspiration: "Through color, I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man's inhumanity to man." — Alma Thomas @almathomas.bsky.social #ColorInMotion

Air View of a Spring Nursery
Alma Woodsey Thomas
Date: 1966
Style: Color Field Painting
Genre: abstract
https://www.wikiart.org/en/alma-woodsey-thomas/air-view-of-a-spring-nursery-1966

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌗 First Quarter: Obstacles, Adjustments, Momentum Theme: Shapes emerging from lines, embracing structure through repetition. Inspiration: – Emma Kunz Article: Who and What Connects the Dots? Emma Kunz’s Method as Infographics and the Politics of Probability doi.org/10.1080/1353... #MomentumMarks

Cavallo, F. L. (2022). Who and What Connects the Dots? Emma Kunz’s Method as Infographics and the Politics of Probability. Parallax, 28(4), 426–441. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2023.2206241

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌒 Waxing Crescent: A Link in the Chain Lines, momentum. Each mark builds on the last. Theme: Movement, connection, and intention. Inspiration: "I am not a beginning. I am not an end. I am a link in a chain." - Keith Haring. @kharingdaily.bsky.social #WaxingCrescent #LinesInMotion

Keith Haring
Untitled, Painted in 1982
sumi ink on paper
A continuous line drawing large scale many bold lines and distinct shapes.

Works on Paper
72 x 115 ½ in. (182.9 x 293.4 cm.)

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm huge fan of Mareks' comics and zine templates, and this "stacking and snipping technique" looks like it's going to be a big time saver from my exacto blade method. Can't wait to try it out in my next batch!

Marek Bennett@marekbennett.bsky.social · last yr.

Mini-Comics Assembly Lines 📖 7 COMICS FORMATS + 🔧 Key features +⌚ Time needed!

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌑 New Moon. Blank canvas. Every line is an experience. Theme: Make the marks that matter. Inspiration: "Every line is now the actual experience with its own unique story." – Cy Twombly @cytwombly.bsky.social ✨ Let the marks flow. New cycle, new movements. #NewMoon #MarksThatMatter

Artist: Cy Twombly
b. 1928, Lexington, Virginia; d. 2011, Rome, Italy
Title: Untitled
Date: Rome, June 1960
Medium: Oil, graphite, and oil stick on canvas
Dimensions: 37 1/2 x 40 1/16 inches (95.7 x 101.8 cm)

Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · last yr.

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌘 Waning Crescent Theme: Closure and rest Inspiration: "For me, lines and words are the same thing." - Shantell Martin thecreativeindependent.com/people/shant... Shantell Sans a font from the artist shantellsans.com Artist website: shantellmartin.art

A line drawing from Shantell Martin.
A rendering of Martin’s set design for Kites, the ballet she’s designing and being performed at the Boston Opera House March 3-13. Web exclusive image courtesy of Shantell Martin.
https://interiordesign.net/designwire/artist-shantell-martins-meditative-line-work-expands-to-winterwear-and-the-boston-ballet/

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌓 Last Quarter Theme: Letting go, simplifying, and making space Inspiration: “The value of art is in the observer. When you get a response that is above the common emotional response, that is when you get something.” ~ Agnes Martin @agnes-martin.bsky.social Gratitude, acrylic & graphite on canvas

Acrylic & graphite on canvas
Agnes Martin, Gratitude, 2001, 60" x 60", acrylic & graphite on canvas
Style: Minimalism
Genre: abstract
To quote Louise Fishman, "Agnes Martin is the Buddha". Her paintings are the visual equivalent of breath -- the weave of the canvas, dry pencil line, light wash of translucent color -- silent, still, inclusive -- nothing and everything. They convey an expansive stasis, an ineffable wholeness in the humble and patient frankness of her process.

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌖 Waning Gibbous Theme: Extracting insights, sharing knowledge Inspiration: "Drawing is a way of reasoning on paper." — Saul Steinberg “A Writer Who Draws.” On the Life and Creative Legacy of Saul Steinberg lithub.com/a-writer-who...

Saul Steinberg, Island, 1965, watercolor, pen and ink and pencil on paper, sheet: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1967.102.3
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/island-22926

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌕Full Moon, Celebration and Release. Theme: Acknowledging insights, "Separating the wheat from the chaff" Inspiration: "I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for." — Georgia O’Keeffe @gokeeffe.bsky.social Evening Star No. III.

Georgia O'Keeffe. Evening Star No. III. 1917 - Watercolor on paper on board: 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 (22.7 x 30.4 cm). The Museum of Modern Art
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evening_Star_No._III._1917_Georgia_O%27Keeffe.jpg

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌔 Waxing Gibbous, momentum & refinement Theme: Reviewing progress and strengthening commitment. Inspiration: "All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier..." ~ Lee Krasner @leekrasner.bsky.social In Memory of My Feelings

Lee Krasner
Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings 1967
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/32444

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

🌗 First Quarter, obstacles, tension, shape. Theme: Shapes emerging from lines, embracing uncertainty. Inspiration: "There is no must in art because art is free." ~ Wassily Kandinsky tensione delicata n. 85, 1923 (Delicate Tension) @wkandinsky.bsky.social

Delicate Tension by Wassily Kandinsky
A dynamic composition of shapes conveying movement and energy.
Kandinsky executed Delicate Tension at the Bauhaus from 1923 to 1925, during the prestigious school’s most rationalist period under the directorship of Theo van Doesburg.

Jason Toal @samepagestudio.bsky.social · last yr.

First post of my #inktober2024 series. 03-01-24 Format: Ink on stickie notes in a four page zine. Reflection: For this post I am thinking about @paul-klee.bsky.social and the concept of "taking a line for a walk", which for me has always meant blind contour drawing.

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Page 01 - Cover
#inktober 10/10/24

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Page 02 - Drawing a blind contour drawing of boots
#inktober 10/10/24

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Page 03 - Text: I have had my boots for 5 years now. WE have seen a lot. I thought I would give them 5 min. for an old school blind contour drawing. I could get back into this.
#inktober 10/10/24

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Page 04 - Summary Drawing of boots
#inktober 10/10/24