Hi world. It’s been a while. I’ve been making more art lately, ironically in the face of both the plein air show I was going to be a part of and Rose City Comic Con which I was tabling at both getting cancelled in light of the pandemic. It’s a bummer, but I do have one piece of good news…
I have a standing desk! Which is a big deal because my now 3 year old is a terrorizing monster when I’m trying to work. Who knew toddlers would find a magical drawing device with a screen attractive? He is relentless and now that the desk is raised up he pretty much leaves me alone, which has been a game changer. I’m now FINALLY working on a comic proposal with my good friend Kelly Garrett to submit to Webtoons, which Im very excited about because the story is solid.
In other news i got into something of a street art battle with some local hooligans. Graffiti is very rare in my small town and out of nowhere there’s been some tagging going on. My fence got it, so I decided to paint over it with an illustration. It took me weeks and about a quarter of the way through, it got tagged AGAIN! I’m still a little worried my dragon will get sprayed over but for now he seems to be staying. You can see some green grafitti around him from the second incident, so I’ll have to brainstorm new ideas to cover that for sure.
I Designed a finalists soccer tournament t-shirt for my husbands workplace, they’re doing a big tournament later this year. He works at Nike headquarters so I’m pretty excited to have athletes on campus walking around with my shirt.
and finally, I’ve been doing some digital plein airs while walking around my town, although I haven’t done one in a couple weeks. There’s a specific spot I’d like to paint but it’s tricky to get to, so we’ll see if I end up doing that one.
I think that’s all I got! Good to be making art again for sure.