May
Here are photos from a few fleeting, sunny moments in May. The rest of the month was rainy. Rainy, rainy, rainy.
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News
Next week: ArtBeat at PCC!
I’m pleased to announce that I’m the featured artist this year at Portland Community College’s ArtBeat, a yearly event dedicated to celebrating the arts. It lasts a whole week – this year they’re hosting 80 events that span three campuses – and everything is free and open to the public. I’ll be speaking Monday through [...]
Wildwood
Lately, Colin and I have been toiling away on a series of illustrated novels. Not the letterpressed ghost story previously mentioned on this blog that may or may not ever see the light of day. Nor the picture book about a talking cat that has been shelved again for the time being (sorry). But a [...]
idle hands are the devil’s workshop
Embroidered pillows for our book room:
on April 30th
One day we’ll look back and laugh at a health care system so dysfunctional that we had to organize benefits to help our friends pay their emergency hospital bills. Ha ha!
In the meantime, come see the Decemberists and Michael Hurley in Astoria and help artist, gardener, and human extraordinaire Jessica Schleif put a good dent [...]
An Ambitious Project Collapsing
I fight the urge to repost everything I see on this blog.
Bertha, the Child-Flower
Here’s my submission for A Journey Round My Skull’s Raymond Roussel illustration contest. The assignment was to illustrate a passage from Roussel’s surrealist poem Locus Solus that was cut from the final book. You can read the passage here and see the contest results here. Big ups as always to AJRMS. If you’re into wondrous, [...]
