Hey, Fairbanks-area people: our show opens tonight! Nine Alaskan comics and fine artists will be at the Alaska Center for Natural Medicine on Davis Road from 5-8 p.m. We will have tables set up throughout the building with books, art, gifts and more. There’s free food - if no one comes, we’ll have to eat it all ourselves! And free wine - if no one ( Read more... )

A lot, it seems!

First of all, I’m in an art show that opens in May! The opening is a First Friday event on May 3rd from 5-8 p.m. (although the show will be up all summer). It’s a comics-themed show at the Alaska Center for Natural Medicine - which might sound like an unusual place for a gallery show, but it’s an absolutely beautiful space, with ( Read more... )

In my year-long to-do list (yes, I have one of those), March is labeled "Kismet". My goal for the month is 50 pages, penciled and inked, though probably not colored. That'll give me a year of weekly updates. It sounds like a lot, and it may end up being an unrealistic goal, but I'm starting to realize that sometimes it's good to challenge myself. ( Read more... )

Sketch Fest is currently ongoing (until Sunday at noon, Alaska time - check your local time) for any interested artists among you! I spent this afternoon at ellenmillion‘s, doing Sketchfest art and playing with her unbelievably cute baby. (Seriously, I think what she claims is a baby is in fact an actor hired to play a cute baby, because I don’t think they ( Read more... )

So how did I spend my Thanksgiving? I’ve been painting handmade cards and bookmarks to sell at the Fox Lions Holiday Bazaar this weekend.


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So, one of the reasons I'm feeling massively accomplished this week is that I finally got my welding project done for the sculpture class.

( Pictures of a very big strawberry under the cut )

Do not use food-quality saucepan to melt crayons for encaustic wax painting. (... what? We're reading about encaustic painting in the chapter on Roman art, and I thought, hmm, that looks interesting, and hmm, crayons are made out of wax ...)

They do melt down nicely. But damn, they're hard to get off stainless steel. *scrubs*

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