Self-Care Monster Cookies Thanks to the Pandemic, I belong to a lot of groups who meet on Zoom... neurodivergent groups, writer groups, artist groups and combinations of those... I forget that humans have more than just faces and torsos, don't live in tiny squares, and continue to have lives when they aren't on
Geeky Girl Two Geeks Log Into a Chat... For the last few months I have been working on moving my Etsy shop over to Shopify (harder than I expected) and moving everything else over to Ghost. It took me forever to compare everything, make charts, test sites, read reviews, obsess... until I stumbled over Ghost while researching Wordpress.
Art 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
Art 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
Process 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
Art 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,
Ideas What the Quo Vadis!? It's getting near to the end of this blog's run... graduation from CCS is this Saturday! But there's so much going on, I have trouble keeping UP! I went home this weekend to see Lilah's performance in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. She was the Narrator and an
Comics Thesis... complete? It IS quite possible that my head might explode... I am So tired. So hungry... but I admit it.. So excited!! I dropped off my Thesis package at the school today. It felt a lot like the first day of preschool - saying goodbye to my kiddos! Here are a
Lettering Lettering Workshop - Laura Di Piazza I just came back from an excellent Lettering Workshop with Laura Di Piazza at the Center for Cartoon Studies. The best part was learning to use a COLA PEN (often made by folding a piece of a Coke can!) I loved the loose, scratchy, messy freedom. The faster and harder
Process Graphics and Visiting Artist - Rebecca Mock Lots of classes and note-taking last week! The second session of the Dartmouth Medical School - Graphic Medicine class was very entertaining! We did a group prompt where each group was given a slip of paper with a description... ours was "Dorothy, Tinman, Scarecrow, and the Lion playing strip poker.
Art #48 - Artistic References - Behind-the-scenes I've been reluctant to draw comics that express what is really on my mind. In an effort to slow the depression and panic attacks... I distracted myself with an experiment this weekend. I had a funny vision of my relationship to art supplies and wanted to use the actual supplies
Class Graphic Medicine Class I feel quite honored to have been asked to Sketch-note this new class being offered at CCS for a group of Dartmouth Medical School students! I have a huge interest in both visual note taking and the use of comics and images in the medical field. This first class was
Process VA Hospital Sketch-notes The program at the Veteran's Hospital is getting very interesting. The most recent session was about how to NOT over-empathize with every story we hear. Made me realize that I (and maybe a lot of other cartoon students) am not the best option to listen to the Vets stories and
Class Thesis Stuff Feels like I have mostly been doing "homework", going to meetings and classes, and working (very late at night) on the science kits for the Montshire Museum... but I HAVE been doing some work on my Thesis. If you follow my comics, either here on the Glyphs & Glitches Comic blog
Art October 18, 2016 Before I show you what I'm working on that is making me stay up way too late at night... Let's start with some more normal stuff? 1. Minou, the studio cat. As you see, she is trying to prevent me from working on the computer. And, yes, she IS sitting
Art First Week - Phew! My first full week as a SENIOR at CCS! This is a really big deal to me because - I have NEVER been a Senior in College. How is that possible since I have a BFA? Well - every time I left a school (Brown to SVA to RISD) -
Exploring Online Dating - The Adventure Begins? What was I thinking? I have been looking at houses online for ages. I get lots of messages from Zillow. I've "Favorited" many houses. I've visited tons of them, fallen deeply in love (The Hobbit House in Chester, VT!), and even had my heart broken ($4,000/year Association fees!
Art Take a Spin It's nice having Minou and Lilah back up here in White River Junction with me! Minou, the cat, has been living at my house for a few months now and I hadn't realized how much I had missed her company here at the apartment. And, I'm not sure why, but
Art Cartooning Studio - Friday The last day. The End. It's all over now. Some kind of magical chaos happening outside the storm... A few of the students were still inking in the classroom. Others were in the lab photocopying. I had been up till 3am again, but I had all the art scanned, cleaned
Art Cartooning Studio - Thursday Day Four - but who's counting, right? Oh? Deadline is counting? Eeeek!! That's quite a turbulent storm going on around him... Lots more good workshops today - Lettering (I adore lettering!), Webcomics, and how to photocopy, reduce and assemble the mini-comics the old-school way (without computers). Jon Chad also showed
Art Cartooning Studio - Wednesday Day 3... ummm... yeh - more intenser-er! I haven't gotten much sleep this week. Staying up till 2 or 3am and class starting at 9:30am. Yawn.... Luckily, our teachers are full of pep and energy. Here they are embellishing the Skull of Deadline Doom and giggling maniacally... No stress.
Comics Cartooning Studio - Tuesday Day Two... starting to get more intense! When I signed up for this workshop, I had intended to work on what had started out as the "Rip-Off" graphic novel project (this past spring) - the magic trailer park story. I have about 8 pages done on that story and wanted
Class Cartooning Studio - Monday Ending a Kickstarter JUST before starting a week of intensive Comic Summer Camp... maybe not the best planning - but it fits my M.O. I apologize for the sudden flood of the whole week's worth of blog posts you are about to get... but I think you'll find some
Art Done. Dah-dah-DONE! The Final Project Always feels like there should be bells ringing or something when a big project is finished... I just - quietly - ate a piece of carrot cake. But I know you all will understand the momentous-ness of this momentous occasion, so here are the behind-the-scenes details... I've shown you some
