Happy Holidays Everyone!

I thought what better way to celebrate the holidays this year than with a festive woolly mammoth! Here is wishing everyone the best this holiday season. Hopefully with some down time I will finally be able to update with some more recent work. That is my goal for the new year!

Doodles for a Thursday

Here are some recent doodles from my sketchbook.

so that happened...

So these are totally not to scale. The one with the pink octopus is quite small- maybe 4 by 6 inches. While the bottom one - called Life During Wartime- is maybe 12 by 16 inches. It is one of my favorite pieces to date. Also I realize theses are far from the greatest pictures of my work. I took them at the ATC show and sold the top two before I could better document them.

And then there was this...

I did this drawing intending it to be a background for other layers. But I have yet to find something to put on top of it that feels right. So far everything just sort of sits there and I end up taking it off. Maybe this one is meant to be a piece all on its own?

Two more drawings...

Oops! These somehow missed being a part of the other posting of the work I was doing for Around the Coyote. They are about 4 x 6 inches. I was doing a whole bunch of these little drawings and then putting them in simple clip frames I got from Ikea to hold all the layers together. Most of the work I am doing now is at least two or three layers, but the big one I did that is like 9 x 12 inches, that I have yet to post has at least five or six layers I think. Once I get a good image of it I will post it.

A-Oh-Cake With Us!

The third issue of Spoke is ready for consumption! Yay!
Check it out here: http://www.spokeisneat.org -it is pretty fabulous and there are tons of goodies in this one. The theme for the next one is "in transit" which should be a lot of fun.

Plethora of new work!

So its mid October and the Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival has come and gone. I would say it went really well this time. I sold several pieces and got really good feedback on my current body of work. People really seemed to like all the layering, and they also enjoyed all the squids, octopi and other animals as well as the standard maplike qualities of my work. Here is a bunch of work for your viewing pleasure. I had a great time working on these.


Oh... and my housemate and I are really into unicorns and pegasuses right now- and the notion of a unicorn and pegaus caught in the middle of some kind of battle royale- Highlander style. This here is a drawing I did for an invitation to a party we had this last weekend. I love how tiny and angry he is.