I am bouncing so wildly between styles now that my painting hand is getting whiplash. (Or maybe that’s from using a mattock to get those two viburnum in the ground yesterday.) Freed from Dragonbreath for a few weeks, all the creative backlog is trying to come down the pike at once. Probably a good thing […]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
“I don’t know,” I said. “So many things I thought were true turned out not to be. And if those things are false, then how can anything be true?” “I cannot help you,” the boar-god said. “You have no enemies worth trampling, and I cannot remake the world into a shape you understand.” He lowered […]
Woohoo! Just got a note–like Ninjabreath before it, Wurstbreath will be a selection of the Junior Library Guild for Fall 2010! Yay! I’m stoked, and not just because now I can have a nicely symmetrical set of framed certificates. The JLG has been very nice to my books, and I am very grateful for it.
For my big post-finishing-a-Dragonbreath-book-painting (an outgrowth of the big post-finishing-a-Dragonbreath-book depression, during which I inevitably decide that I am a hack and a dreadful artist and cannot paint anything but cartoon dragons.) I came up with this: The Flight of Hamwings I always have this crash. Kevin occasionally makes me German chocolate cake, which does seem to stave […]
So my editor sent me the marketing department’s plan to market Dragonbreath 3, and let’s all just stop a minute here while I go "Holy crap, how did I come to a point in my life where there is a marketing department somewhere that actually cares about me as something other than a consumer?" I realize […]
Comment from DA on a small cute painting of small cuteness:How is that people like you and someone like the brutal decapitator al Zarqari (spelling?) are members of the same species?! It boggles the mind. Err…. ….Well. Uh…..? ……..I don’t think I have enough ellipses to express my bemusement.
Since I don’t know how much mainstream press coverage it’s likely to get, I’ll mention it here–illustrator Frank Frazetta passed away today. If you grew up on classic fantasy art, he and Boris Vallejo were pretty much the face of the pulp fantasy cover. I had a Frazetta poster on my wall in college. The style […]
The Radish Wore Goggles …I have a vague desire to follow it up with something like "The Eggplant Wore A Monocle."
Okay, internet braintrust–book recommendation time! I am in the mood for a Gothic romance. I don’t mean "heroine wears a lot of black and listens to the Cure," I mean…oh, you know. Serious young woman hired as governess in dark brooding castle on the moors, grumpy servants making dark hints, pitying looks from the townsfolk, until […]
I spent about three hours today gardening. I am exhausted. My last chunk of prairie plants came in the mail, and there was much hacking of clay to chop holes to stick the wee things in, and now I am stiff in the way that indicates that I may be limping around the house tomorrow like […]