Made some color separations in Photoshop. Holy eff, I was NOT expecting it to be a three-color print. Much much tedium. But it looks the best this way so far. So, now to get carvin'.

My house is filling with knit birds again, but that's okay.

The two penguins are for my friend, but the little ones I tend to knit compulsively. The penguins are Pasha from Knitty (and I have longed for an excuse and enough materials to knit that pattern for years!) and the little ones are the aptly named Little Birds by Duo Fiberworks. Free patterns!

Purple penguin, with a better look at her flippers.

It's Spring in the woods, and Srom and Mona are finaly friends.

My bread&buttah job has been crazy, so no finished work lately. However, I've gotten in the habit of getting up and going straight to the desk so I can draw and pick at projects for ten minutes or so before I get ready to work. This sketch was being knit in my brain-womb for months, and now it's ready to go!

These two drawings are from a year ago, when I illustrated local food hero Anna Tourkakis' cookbook Delicious Simplicity. When I was given the assignment I was kinda like whuuuut, because black & white images of food are normally not appetizing, but looking back on these now I'm still pleased with them. It was a good challenge.

I drew more than two things for it. You can buy Delicious Simplicity at a Whole Foods Market in Massachusetts, or on Amazon. I'm on Amazon!

Someone I work with requested a drawing of the moon, because her two-year-old daughter is obsessed with it.
I love the fact that a little girl can be obsessed with the moon.

Mona in the woods, like a ghost. Just an experiment...

Watch out, Sabrina's got an M9! Wait, which one's the M9? Hey, they're both M9s!

A rendition of Sabrina, from the Criminal Macabre books by Steve Niles. It was pretty confusing at first when I searched for a drawing reference for the Leica M9 and all these guns showed up, especially since drawing a gun was in the plan anyway.

With all the fresh paint left, I made a few more sketches. Something from my book! Srom attending to his sickness and bones with flowers and herbs. Looks kinda Ben Shahn-ish, right? That's because I adore Ben Shahn's work.

A ritual rewatching of Vertigo was due. I always felt so sorry for Midge, learning the hard way that being a successful working artist in a big city isn't enough. You'll get obscured by this mystical mystery woman who's just so fucking fantastic and mesmerizing to everyone. You can never hope to meet her, so there's no opportunity to figure out what the hell's just so great about her so you can duplicate it. When you try, you just end up embarassing yourself. I hateHATE that scene where she shows the painting of herself to Scottie, because I just feel so bad for her, and possibly myself.

Maybe soon I'll get onto a fuller pallette. Having more than one color's vaguely interested me lately, but so has making lots and lots of relief prints. Pretty opposite, right?

One of my favorite Fun-A-Days from this year. An amusing phrase that I passed by on tumblr. Couldn't really, say, "illustrate" what I saw in it. Words and typography seem just colorless and mass-less, but at the same time colorful and heavy. So I went with nothingness on paper. But it still packs a punch, and in fact, it wasn't on the wall during the show because of its central F-bomb.

From Fun-A-Day. Egyptian Licorice. Makes a nice tea.

Fable

The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel;
And the former called the latter "Little Prig."
Bun replied,
"You are doubtless very big;
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together
To make up a year
And a sphere.
And I think it's no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I'm not so large as you,
You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry.
I'll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track;
Talents differ: all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut." 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson