Calling on the Earth Spirit
Wow, it's been another year already?!? I'm excited, once again, to say that I'm going to be featured in Emerald City Comicon's 2018 Monsters and Dames charity book. It looks like this year the number of books went down from 1000 copies to 750. Crazy. I guess if you want one, don't waste any time! They'll be available at the ECCC merch booth the first day of the con.
Read MoreOne thing I really like about the concept of this book is that each year I've challenged myself to try new things, different angles, more colors, creative types of creatures and most importantly diversifying the actual women in my art. I see these books as an opportunity for me to empower different types of women each time and want to use it as a platform as best as I can.
Read MoreI'm super stoked to say that I got into the Monsters & Dames book for a second year in a row! Like last year, this book will be available in limited quantities (1000 copies I think?) at the ECCC merch booth at the convention on April 7-10th. Proceeds for this book go to Seattle Children's Hospital, a premier child health care & pediatric center, so it's for a totally awesome cause.
Read MoreIt took me months of searching for a company to produce these for me. With the quality that I insist on having to sell anything at my store, this was a little harder than I had ever expected to encounter. With a few minor set backs, botched prototypes and misunderstandings, I did however finally find a great company who was willing to work with my anal retentive artistic eye.
Read MoreRecently I’ve had conversations with a few other artists about artistic growth and figuring out your voice amongst the thousands of artists out there in the world. What was interesting to me is that I would keep coming back to my first projects as a refection of where I came. In having these discussions it dawned on me that maybe it would be a good idea to post these online again to give people a reference point of my growth to show people how much I’ve changed artistically, what things I tried and the subtle development of my own voice as a result of this project. So, I spent this last weekend putting filtering through my horribly organized photoshop files and compiled this new series on the site called “Unconscious Ink Inklings” or just “Inklings” on the menubar.
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