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Comics Camp Day One

It feels really good to be back in White River Junction, VT! There's so much inspiration all around the town. Even the alleyways have art! I'm taking the Young Adult Graphic Novel Workshop with Tillie Walden and Jo Knowles. This is a very sketchy comic done in about 45 minutes

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Let's Try This...

I've been venturing out of the house, a bit farther afield - first to Massachusetts, now I'm in Maine. When I get back home, I'll be working on the Studio space - electrician ("Let there be light!"), removing the piano, clearing out the toys, and setting up the work space.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Inktober 2018 - Week Three

Just one more week of Inktober! (And one more week of Kickstarter - not related - but very cool.) Week One HERE Week Two HERE And a quick recap of The Rules: • Draw a picture based on the word prompt for that day • Ink it • Post it on social media

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Inktober 2018 - Week Two

I'm still going...! Some of my gray markers are running dry, but I MUST KEEP GOING! So here are all the drawings I've done for Week Two (you can see Week One HERE). Day 8 - STAR Day 9 - PRECIOUS I thought it looked pretty cool - with just

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Inktober 2018 - Week One

In an effort to get myself back on track - DRAWING COMICS EVERYDAY - I joined Inktober - 31 drawings in 31 days. Started by Jake Parker, cartoonist, to get himself and others to perfect their inking skills - Inktober has become a "thing". Basically, there is a list of

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Oh Carousel!

I spent the last five nights staying up very very very late! I binge watched three tv series and built my Lego birthday present! Night One (Drop Dead Diva): the infrastructure ticket booth Night Two (Drop Dead Diva): the platforms and stairs Night Three (The Good Place): the poles for

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The Tarot-Concert-Poster

This was a really cool project I finished in August - but I promised to wait to post anything about it... My client, Naomi, had seen the piece I had done for Emily Clement, the Life Coach - - and she wanted to know if I could create a poster

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Sketch of a Sketch-note

I got distracted by a bunch of things so I didn't post this right after the Graphic Medicine Conference this weekend - as I had planned. I was photographed while sketching David Macaulay's Keynote Presentation on Saturday at Dartmouth - and thought you might like to see a little of

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Let's Go With Plan... J?

I've got a bit of a mess that I need help sorting out. I apologize for the long post, and I understand if you don't read it - but if you do make it through - I would really appreciate any ideas, encouragement, suggestions, or large checks. ;-) I'll try

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Animation - The Rest of the Week

Again - I have all the animations up on my Patreon page - take a look! I stayed up late inking the pencils and scanning them, then ruined the whole thing with a botched batch processing... But this morning - I realized the black background actually looked better... so I

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Animation Reflux

I'm so glad I decided to take the Animation workshop with Alec Longstreth at the Center for Cartoon Studies -- AGAIN! I enjoyed it last summer too, but I didn't get the concepts, techniques, etc. firmly planted in my brain in a way that would let me actually USE them.

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NH CZT Gatherings at The BeeHive

We've had a few of the CZT (Certified Zentangle® Teacher) gatherings at The BeeHive and they keep getting bigger and better! Everyone works on their own projects (or just chats and relaxes), but Bette Abdu brought a project to share. Once it is cut out, the shape folds into a

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What if I were...?

Well - I MIGHT be... definitely the "muffin-top" looks familiar... I've been bringing furniture, storage stuff and lots of books and art supplies... one carload at a time... up to the new studio. The BeeHive looks like a real studio now, but it still needs murals and I've been missing

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It's a Sign!

I've been sick in bed for two weeks, but I did get one day off to bring some more Stuff to the new Studio in Concord. And my door had a beautiful new sign! Here's a closer view of it with the studio behind  it... I was blown away by

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The BeeHive!

It's starting to look like a real studio! Even divided up, with furniture, it's still really spacious. The classroom area... The Shop area... The resource area... The Mannequins have new aprons (tangled, of course)... My mini studio... Part of the storage room - with a big die cutter and tons

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A Mix of Stuff

If you'd like to see the latest photos of progress on the new Studio space, take a look at The BeeHive website HERE. The rest of April is going to be quite a blur! I'm in the process of selling the Wingdoodle building, finishing cleaning it out, setting up the

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In Progress...

I spent a lot of time this week painting and cleaning the new Studio. I painted over the Angler Fish... That took a lot of work and a lot of paint to complete the second HUUUUUUGE blackboard. The first, "small" blackboard will have trees AND party lights! The old cork

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Movin' On Up!

One of those kind of bittersweet sort of days...  I'm glad I didn't have to do this alone - my awesome kid actually made it fun. I had cleared out my little studio a couple of days ago - but today I had to go and - GASP - wash

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Hello Universe. It's Me, Sandy...

A really nice studio space suddenly became available on the second floor at Concord Community Arts Center! The room is about 850-square feet - It's big and bright - lots of windows, and painted white. (I can fix that though...) It's about a gazillion times bigger than my current studio.

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A Peek at Pics in Progress

Here's a peek at some of the stuff I'm working on right now... This picture shows a progression for one page of the science comics I'm doing for the Montshire Museum of Science and Dartmouth College - This is a few days worth of work! And, yes, I DO the