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I bought a new press this week. It’s a used mid-size Ettan press and I am very excited. I’ll grant you I am generally pretty happy working smaller than 9″ x 12″, but it gets to feeling pretty cramped after a while. I should be able to just about double the scale of my prints [...]
It is now March. How Nice. You are invited to enjoy February’s print, posted below or over in the gallery. It was sort of an experiment for me. It’s not technically à la poupée, since there is only the one color, but it’s as close to à la poupée as I’ve ever done for a [...]
I recently finished reading A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. I was not particularly excited by it. I did find myself thinking about it quite a bit this week so I guess it did something right. The book is a sort of bizarre, jumbled mess with the stories of several loosely connected [...]
Terry Pratchett has a way with words. Sometimes I wonder if I should feel warm and safe and amused while reading about horrible monsters, world shattering terrors and casual murder. Sometimes it just feels right. Anyway, here is a drawing:
I just finished reading The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern. It’s a book about a magical duel in a magical circus, so it’s hardly surprising it was recommended to me. Wizards have always been a favorite of mine and circuses aren’t half bad either. In the end, I found the plot to be pretty slack. [...]
Preparations for Fanime have already begun. Hopefully getting an early start on them will mean the new Megamoth Anthology and other table preparations won’t end up consuming my life as completely as it usually does come May. I already miss having more time to draw. Speaking of time not spent drawing, I was working on [...]
I just finished reading a book called Pandemonium and Parade – Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai by one Michael Dylan Foster. The book is a discussion of the way traditional Japanese monsters and spirits were viewed/believe in/studied over the last few hundred years. It is a pretty academic text, but I found it [...]
I spent most of my studio time this week drawing grass. It was exhilarating. You might think the prospect of spending several hours in a row rendering a field of grass would make doing just about anything else look attractive, but every time I had to stop drawing grass and go do anything else I [...]
