Just watch this:

That is all. Thanks, BoingBoing.

I’m currently ideating a bunch of things, as I’ve previously stated. Well along with that, I’m using this experimentation time to make pieces for the art sale so I can at least feel like selling them is enough to justify spending as much time on them as I am. I just unearthed this giant box of color-aid that I totally forgot that I had. Its some pretty great stuff and I don’t get enough time to do the cut paper/collage thing even though I am admittedly bad at it. I came up with the following image, but I know it isn’t finished. I want to go back into it with pencil or something and maybe do something a little less abstract. But what?

I’d love any suggestions.

So, one of my favorite parts of getting to work with Jenny Tondera every Friday morning she reads amazing blogs and like to share them with me. I love blogs and always want to find more and more of them, so it’s nice to have an expert in the room.

Today, J-Ton was showing me “Dad blogs”. Dad blogs are blogs for dads and by dads and about the kids of dads. The blogs are cute and funny and whatever, but in the process of exploring the daddy-blogoshpere we discovered the greatest blog ever. It’s called YES WE CAN (HOLD BABIES) and it is a photoblog of Barack Obama, yes, holding babies. and it’s ADORABLE.

Lately, I’ve been kind of exploring a whole bunch of new things. I have always really liked patterns, but I never really make very many, plus I really felt like I needed to use some digital media since everything I’ve done lately is hand-made (even my website). Anyway, these aren’t the best, but I think I really like them. Plus they actually fit together and repeat seamlessly, which is actually not super hard in a geometric pattern, but it’s something.

Emma and Katie, along with myself, are going to be in a small art opening at the St. Paul Tea Garden! You should go if you can. I wanted to make some new illustrations for the show, and it was truly a challenge- I had to make all three in less than a week! But I thoroughly enjoyed making this art. I had to struggle with each one to make it work, and in the end they turned out pretty nice. The show is up now! The opening is the 24th of October, and it’s up through mid-November.

I’m still doing the freelance thing. It’s going very well, I like it a lot. Hopefully I can start getting more illustration jobs soon.

Thanks to everyone who attended joel’s super secret surprise going away party! Photos from my camera from that fateful night live here. Bill had some pictures, too, but you’ll have to talk to him about those