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Creative Friday

Creative Friday

Inktober <pause>?

Inktober <pause>?

I did my best, but I have a permission slip that says I can get out of doing Inktober this year. Time to Bounce... The Inktober inspired sale is still in progress in my ETSY shop - BUMBLEBAT - and with the 25% off, it's been very popular! My brain

Inktober Begins... Began

Inktober Begins... Began

Yes, I'm already a week behind. What can I say, it's a tradition. I have been doing the Inktober challenge for years. Maybe too many. But it's the best thing for getting me back in the habit of drawing everyday. And it has inspired me to create my own challenges

Bare Bones Art

This is not my finest life drawing attempt, but that's not really the point. The point is that, even after another really exhausting week - I pushed myself to GO! I've missed the Art Circles and the Drawing Nights for the last few months and I was determined to stop

4/14/23 • Wait... did I miss Spring?!

4/14/23 • Wait... did I miss Spring?!

I finished this painting last week. It was very cold. And we still had quite a bit of snow. 3 days ago, it was chilly, but sunny, and there was only snow on the shady North side of the house. Yesterday, the yard cleanup people came and took the big

4/4/23 • Autism Awareness Month

4/4/23 • Autism Awareness Month

I’m seeing a lot of posts about Autism because - #autismawarenessmonth. I’m not quite sure how to interpret that… like “oh yes, I’m aware of the thing called autism!” Or is it more of a way to celebrate your autism? I have a whole lot of feelings

3/30/23 • Mimbres and Soup

3/30/23 • Mimbres and Soup

For a person with a damaged immune system… there was one positive side to everyone wearing masks during Covid… I didn’t get any major colds. But since January I’ve been really sick twice. My kid was home from school for one day last week… and I’ve been

3/27/23 • Good Advice!

3/27/23 • Good Advice!

This was Marek's comment on my last post - about not being able to paint or draw comics lately. That's a good point... I had started painting again last year - just for myself - another self-imposed challenge. It just felt good. But then I started showing the paintings to

3/1/23 • Good Thing That Happened, Part 3

Waaaaaaay back in June 2022, I visited the Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, MA. And then, I applied for one of the live/work spaces called The Lofts. It was quite a process with CVs, artist statement, portfolio, proof that I'm a working artist and showing my work - luckily

3/1/23 • Good Thing That Happened, Part Two

Oops, fell behind again. These Anxiety-Depression Attacks are kind of like a neurotypical person getting the flu. They knock me out and leave me so exhausted and then feeling like I have to run to catch up! So I told you about the puppy I'll be getting in April, the

Good Thing That Happened, Part the Third

Waaaaaaay back in June 2022, I visited the Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, MA. And then, I applied for one of the live/work spaces called The Lofts. It was quite a process with CVs, artist statement, portfolio, proof that I'm a working artist and showing my work - luckily

Good Thing That Happened, Part Two

Oops, fell behind again. These Anxiety-Depression Attacks are kind of like a neurotypical person getting the flu. They knock me out and leave me so exhausted and then feeling like I have to run to catch up! So I told you about the puppy I'll be getting in April, the

2/2/23 • Portrait of the Dog

2/2/23 • Portrait of the Dog

I keep giving myself challenges to paint! Mostly, I've been using liquid acrylics on a thick mixed media (watercolor) paper with spiral sketchbook holes along the edge. This is to focus on practice rather than thinking of the painting as something I can sell. The paper gets a little wonky

1/28/23 • It's Been a Minute... or a Few Years...

1/28/23 • It's Been a Minute... or a Few Years...

I'm working on doing a new overhaul - of everything... website, online store, my life - it's all in there.

It's Been a Minute... or a Few Years...

I'm working on doing a new overhaul - of everything... website, online store, my life - it's all in there. I'd put this blog on hold while I was in school, then again a few years ago while trying out Patreon. I'm not sure that's my place, so I'm returning

1/13/23 • Sort-of-Vision Board

1/13/23 • Sort-of-Vision Board

I have lots of great vision boards of things I want to achieve or own or do. This year, I thought I'd make a vision board of what I have, had, or did. Weird, I know, but that is my objective for this year - to stop masking, be myself,

1/13/23 • Last of 2022, First of 2023

1/13/23 • Last of 2022, First of 2023

Yikes - forgot to post this last week! I was having a lot of meltdowns - nope, don't want to talk about them. The Empathy Monster was... a summary... of what I took away from 2022. Learning to be a little nicer to myself and ask "What do you need?

GOrillas! on the Move!

Today I had the perfect kind of social interaction day! Sue Matott, the children's librarian at the Pillsbury Free Library - (our local library here in Warner, NH) - chose my book, Ready, Set, GOrilla! for Storytime! [Book Info: "Ready, Set, GOrilla!" - written by Melissa Stoller, and illustrated by

Gone Solar

One month later... here's a follow up to the last post about Going Solar. My solar panels were installed in time for my Birthday (so I'm counting it as Birthday Present #1)! It took about a day and a half of noise and chaos, but they look fabulous. And they

Meanwhile, Back in the Studio...

Here's another behind-the-scenes for a different project I'm working on. Starting on January 1st this year, I gave myself the goal of drawing a Toy Every Day! Then I added a few more parameters. First, I was aiming for 5 out of 7 days - it's not always possible to

READ! Behind-the-Scenes

In my QUO VADIS Kickstarter Project Rewards, I have an option for Custom Original Artwork. As I was writing the description, and trying to describe what I would actually create for a Backer - I wrote this: To clarify, here's another example: Let's say you are a librarian and want

More stuff I'm working on...

I was very productive this past month, not only did I complete three rounds of antibiotics for ear infection, sinus infection, AND STREP! - I also decided to turn the front end of my house into an apartment, and scheduled a hysterectomy (more on that in the next post). We'll

Fun things I'm working on! (And you can Buy!)

It's NOT all about GOrillas you know! I've been working on a whole bunch of things this fall and I'd like to show you some of them now. The Demons from We Will Never Leave You have been up to all kinds of things besides my Christmas Card. I've started

Coloring Sheets!

We did a craft fair this past weekend and kept ourselves busy... coloring! ...and annoying my kid... But it also reminded me that I needed to add the coloring pages to my web site. So I did. If you'd like to pay me for the coloring sheets, click HERE. (Hey,

GOrilla's Birthday Bash

We had a great Book Birthday on Saturday for Ready, Set, Gorilla! We took over most of the Velvet Moose Ice Cream shop in downtown Warner, NH and applied a LOT of tattoos... I lost count of how many times I said, "Now press this wet paper towel onto the