Hey there, stranger!

Long time no post. Really, really long time no post! I'm sorry to anyone checking in regularly. I'm sorry also because it may continue to be a fairly long time between posts, even though school is back in session and therefore, shouldn't I have lots and lots of things to put up? Huh, huh? Shouldn't I?

The answer is "kind of". See, this semester my classes have worked out so that I'm only taking two studio classes—life drawing and thesis. So why the high probability of a scarcity of posted work this semester? Because Studio #1 is Life Drawing, which is not so much fabulous artwork as it is super-academic practice work (which is fantastic and I love it, which is good because goodness knows I need the practice), and Studio #2 is thesis, for which I am working slowly and laboriously on some woodcuts. I'll post some progress on those every once in awhile, but each image is going to take three weeks to reach full completion (sketches to cuts to prints), so it might be some time between when I get them onto here.

In the meantime, here's a photo of some (unfolded) cards I made when I interned at Firecracker Press this summer. This the project that inspired my current thesis work (featuring more sea creatures partaking in silly activities—stay tuned for a very literary angler fish):

(If you're in the Saint Louis area at any time, go check out their store! (it is located at 2838 Cherokee Street, something I have hand-set in little lead letters many, many times now) Other than having my cards for sale, they have lots of neat stuff to look and are cool people to boot. Plus, you can get excellent Mexican food barely a hop-skip-and-a-jump away.)

Thanks for reading! Thanks for sticking with me! Come back soon, I promise it will be less of a barren wasteland of a blog!