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Usually, I would post this kind of behind-the-scenes thing on the Glyphs & Glitches blog. But if you aren't following that blog, or the Comic Blog, I want you to know what you are missing! ;-D
If you'd like to see more like this, and learn about interesting artists that visit my school, then you still have time to back my Indiegogo project. You'll also get pdfs and fun stuff throughout the year. Take a look HERE and share the link with your friends (Thanks!)
Here's a behind-the-scenes for a recent comic page, "Nesting Instinct"...
I start with a rough sketch of the panels (boxes) and what I want to happen in each box, then I begin adding more details (in pencil)...
I used to make the lines with a ruler and also rule out all the lettering guides... but now I just freehand them. Either I am lazy or I LIKE the slightly wonky look.
My favorite part is the inking. For these journal-type comics, I use a PaperMate ballpoint pen (sometimes a BIC Crystal pen). I Trace over the pencil lines, but also add more details and refine (look at the lines on the squirrel's purse). I put in some "shading" and crosshatching with the pen now - I will add more later, after the pencil is erased.
When I erase the pencil lines, some of the ink gets rubbed off too...
... so I go back in with the pen and add the dark areas and shading. Compare the acorns in the panel above, with those in the panel below...
I work in a Moleskine journal that has very thin paper and it is creme colored. The book is lightweight and convenient to carry with me everywhere. But it's a pain for scanning. If I were working on bright white paper with dark black ink and no grays... I would scan it, threshold it, and call it a day!
But I insist on doing things the hard way - and I really like the "sketchy" look of the ballpoint pen and the many grays it creates. That means that I have to eyeball it when I'm adjusting the lights and darks. I want to get rid of any stray pencil marks, but not lose the grays from the pen. Then I have to zoom in and do a lot of careful erasing and adjusting. Lastly, I'll straighten any seriously wonky panel boxes or off kilter text.
Here's the final comic page:
If you'd like to read these comics as they are posted, please back my Indiegogo campaign! If you are reading this after it has ended, take a look at my Patreon page.
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Lilah and I spent two weeks at the apartment in White River Junction while she did Cartoon Camp at The Center for Cartoon Studies. The camp only went until noon, so in the afternoons we...
The Kickstarter was a success - fully funded! Indiegogo, a similar crowd-funding site, asked if I'd be willing to try out their new InDemand program. It picks up where the Kickstarter program left off.
So I have 30 more days to raise the rest of the money that I need for school! And YOU have 30 more days to back my project (if you missed it the first time) or get another Reward. ;-)
I added the Glyphs & Glitches Comic blog to the rewards as well as the new Fright Before Christmas comic book. I'm working on the Inspiration Sketchbook - Comic Boot Camp book this summer. That one will go to the upper Reward-Backers this fall.
I also just completed We Will Never Leave You - a comic interview with my inner demons. I hope to have print copies of that available by the end of the summer too. If I can get those worked out - I can test out a cool feature of Indiegogo... Secret Rewards! I'll be able to send you a special code that unlocks a Reward only you can choose.
OK - back to work!
Oh - I hope you will continue to help me spread the word about the blog project!
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We've been cleaning out my mom's house for weeks. This past weekend, my sister, Jen, and her husband came up to help clear out the barn. There were tons of paint cans that needed emptying, so Jen and Brian decided to dump them on sheets of cardboard on our old sandbox.
Then Brian brought out a few bottles of Prosecco and the "clean up" became an event!
And my sister became Jackson Pollock!
And my mom showed up as the paparazzi...
And a neighbor wandered over to see what the fuss was about...
It started to look really pretty! My sister, the photographer, was in heaven.
Even her feet looked artsy!
There was a lot of depth and texture to the paintings - some of that paint was really old and thick!
Really thick!
And they tried adding cat litter - but I think that was a mistake.
When my friend Debbee, the art teacher, showed up, she was sad to have missed the paint throwing portion of the party, but had the brilliant idea of pulling prints from the splatters.
It took a few days for most of the paint to dry. We ended up cutting up the giant, very heavy pieces of cardboard, so we could drag them to the dump. I think my lawn is destroyed.
Then this painted gnu wandered into the sandbox and it looks like he left his - very colorful - contributions to what we have been calling - "the world's largest litterbox".
It was a very original way to spend the Summer Solstice, don't you think? I will never look at "Sip and Paint" Parties the same way again!
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On Sunday, May 15, 2016, The Concord Monitor wrote an article about the Center for Cartoon Studies and an interview with me! They featured one of my comics on the main page, and the online version of the article showed more of my art as well as photos.
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I just launched my second Kickstarter project last night. This is similar to the first one - it funds my blog - Glyphs & Glitches - which documents my adventures at Cartoon School.
If you have always dreamed of leaving your boring office job and returning to school to get your Masters in Cartooning...
OK, so maybe that's not practical for you right now - but you can still fulfill your fantasy by backing my Kickstarter project.
You'll get access to my blog - Glyphs & Glitches - where I write about all my experiences, comic projects, classes, the Visiting Artists and the mess-ups too.
But wait, that's not all... you also get PDFs of comics I create at school!
I just launched the Kickstarter last night and I have 19 days to fund the project. If you can't back the project yourself, please help me spread the word. The link is: http://kck.st/1VyeBke
Thank you!!
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If you are in school, and you get Spring Break, you are supposed to head to the beach, right?
I went to the Maine coast! I spent a few days hanging out at my sister's house in Bar Harbor. She's renovating a house nearby to rent as apartments in the summer. She's ripping out floors and painting...
I avoided helping, hung out in her lovely family room...
... and local cafes...
... drawing comics for school! I wandered around town (mostly boarded up) looking at the beautiful houses.
Then I headed down to Ogunquit, just in time for St. Patrick's Day.
Leprechaun traps?
I was in desperation mode, having missed my fall ocean-fix this year (I started school!) and just standing there, looking at the waves went a long way to heal my brain.
And sitting by the fire pit drinking Salted-Caramel Bailey's with Vanilla Absolut vodka... (mmmmm!)
My friend Debbee was able to join me for a day and the OgunquitTangle Zentangle retreat was also going on at the hotel, so I never got the chance to get lonely.
When we checked out, Debbee wrote this great entry in the room's journal:
Then we roamed around town - the chocolate shop...
And the Art Galleries...
Abacus is one of my favorites! I REALLLLLLY want this amazing cabinet. And I want to design and build a house to go with it!
I had such a wonderful vacation. I hadn't realized how badly I needed it - as if the extreme depression I'd been experiencing wasn't a clue, right? I'd have to say that the instinct to "run away" is not something to be ignored.
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Zentangle has been moving SO fast and the art online is staggering!
Sometimes it is nice to be reminded of the whole point of this art form - as I see it - Creative Confidence. I've always thought it was amazing how Zentangle could get people drawing and experiencing their own creativity.
If you are reading this and you teach Zentangle, I hope this inspires you to keep teaching Intro classes and don't worry so much about the advance level, or crafting type tangle classes. You never know who you will reach and how you might help - even in some small way.
I just had this great conversation with Christine and she gave me permission to post it here. I hope it makes you feel good too! (Thanks Christine!)
Hi, Sandy
Could you tell me if the cards in the Yoga For Your Brain Totally Tangled Edition Cards are the same size as these cards, please? I will have to buy them from Book Depository or Amazon because I live in Australia, but the description doesn't mention the size of the cards.
If you could help me regarding the size of the tangle cards, and maybe even a suggestion of how to store them when I get them, I would be very grateful.
Thank you in advance, and have a wonderful weekend.
Hugs Christine Chipman
Hi Christine!
I'm thrilled to have you as a fan. :-)
Yes, all the cards are the same size. The trading card size is the same as "baseball cards" and ATCs - 2.5 x 3.5 inches.
Each pack comes in its own storage box, but you can also use any storage system designed for baseball cards or ATCs - like the plastic pocket pages for three ring binders.
The cards are great (I believe!) because you can pick a few patterns to use and take them with you. For example, when I was working on a tangled ocean picture, I sorted thru the cards to find tangles that looked like waves and scales, etc.
I hope you enjoy them too!
Cheers, Sandy
Thanks so much, Sandy. They sound amazing, so I'm definitely going to have to get them, as well as your book.
Now I just have to get the nerve to take that first step and do a tangle. I forgot to tell you that I have already bought the Alpha Tangle and the Alphatangle, Expanded Workbook Edition, both of which are amazing. I also have The Joy of Zentangle, and several other books, in which I know your work is featured.
Have a wonderful day, and keep those wonderful books and tangles coming.
Hugs Christine
Christine, You got this! I've attached an image with everything you need to know to get that first Zentangle onto paper! :-)
Thank you so much, Sandy. That makes it look so easy. Will send you a picture of my first effort when I've done it.
Hugs Christine
Hi, Sandy.
I've finally done my first Zentangle tile, and now I don't know why I was so scared. The lines and circles could be a lot better, so I'll have to practice those, but you won't be able to stop me now. I'm collecting step-outs of tangles, string examples to use, and am going to keep everything I do in folders the way you, and lots of others, do.
Here are two pictures of my first Zentangle tile taken from two different angles. Tangles used were Crescent Moon, Static, Tipple and Florz, using the booklet and DVD from the official Zentangle kit that I was blessed with a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks for all your help and encouragement. Have a wonderful day.
Hugs Christine
Those are lovely! Doesn't it feel good? I think the first ones are the hardest - anxiety is a bugger. Now, you can just relax and enjoy the process. :-)
Thanks so much, Sandy. My problem is I was brought up in a home where everything had to be done perfectly, or you kept doing it until it was. Letting go of that control is so hard, even at the age of 67, because it has ruled my life all that time. Now I colour the way I want to colour, and now that I've done my first Zentangle, I feel there isn't anything I can't do. It's such a liberating feeling, and I had no idea how powerful just doing that Zentangle would be. I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I'm free to move on and do things the way I want to.
Thank you for all your help and encouragement, and for publishing all your amazing books for us to use for inspiration. Can't wait to see what else you come up with.
Hugs Christine
Oh I love to hear this sort of story!!! I'm wondering if you might let me share these notes on my blog with your first tangles too? I don't have to put your full name if you are shy. :-) -Sandy
That's fine, Sandy. I don't mind you using my name, and I'm so chuffed that you think my first tangles are good enough for you to use on your blog. You have no idea how different it makes you feel when someone actually tells you that you have done something well instead of criticizing all the time, like my parents and siblings, etc did. This is the first time I feel that I have actually created something unique because everything else I've tried for hobbies have relied on other people's completed designs. Zentangle allows me to express myself like never before, and I finally feel like I'm starting to climb out of the big deep pit I've been living in over the last few years in particular since being diagnosed with breast cancer. This year has been a completely different one for me, with so many RAOKs coming my way already I'm overwhelmed, and my faith in humanity has been renewed.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.
Hugs Christine
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Lilah spent the weekend with me in White River Junction, VT. It was nice to have an "easy" weekend without lots of homework - now that the big comic book project is finished!
She finally got to attend the Comic Club at my school and I heard her get up to present her character designs a few times. I was very proud of her - there were a lot of kids in that classroom! And her designs were pretty cool too.
Then we headed over to the Montshire Science Museum. There's a new exhibit about human bodies and technology. Very interesting - there was a mechanical arm built from Lego! The interactive exhibits do a great job helping explain what it is like to be blind - build different "canes" to navigate a sidewalk with obstacles, or missing part of your body - try riding a snowboard/wheelchair. There was a very intriguing wheelchair that had been adapted for a DJ!
Here is Lilah is experimenting with how extending the length of a person's arms or legs, and increasing their strength affects the height they can jump or throw a ball. The exhibit uses technology similar to a wii game system - her motions are mimicked by a stick figure character.
The place was packed, but they handle crowds well. We were able to take a workshop that used Gelli-plates for printmaking after listening to a short lecture about an artist who does paintings of holes cut into frozen lakes.
And then I sat and drew the giant stuffed moose...
Back at the apartment, we carved rubber stamps and started making our Valentine cards...
And Lilah tested out a new book I just got.
I'd heard about it during an interview at school with an editor at the publishing house. "The Complete Book of Chalk Lettering" is a great book and I would have bought it just because I love lettering - BUT - what makes it pure genius is that they have built a chalkboard into the front and back covers!!!
So you can fold out the back cover and actually practice while reading the book! Lilah did a bunch of flourishes and letters, but got really excited when she found this section on flowers...
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I'm sick in bed and just realizing two weeks have flown by since I got out of school for break. Whoosh!
Just before Christmas, I got to participate in a Holiday Celebration at my daughter's elementary school. It was my kid's idea that I should volunteer to lead an art project and there were a few moments when I can't believe I went through with this!
Our idea was to do Winter Murals with stencils I die-cut and chalks and slick crayons... There were seven rotations of about 24 kids each. In general, the younger kids were more willing and excited to draw pictures, the older kids just wrote their names and other words. The younger kids were more respectful of the art supplies, the older kids... "feeding frenzy" comes to mind!
I made the mistake of wearing a very warm sweater - the gym is usually quite chilly - but after 3 hours of standing, bending, taping paper to the floor and "resetting"... seven times... I was drenched. But it was a lot of fun and seeing some of the teachers down on the floor coloring was a hoot too.
Now I will hand the commentary over to my little art director, here's Lilah...
"This was a Gingerbread Village that about 7 of us worked on. And one adult. Every building is made of gingerbread. We used the "lipstick" crayons. Owen's hands were COVERED with brown! I put orange gumboils on the top of my house (the one below)."
"Lots and lots of "Merry Christmases!" to you!"
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Multi-tasking has never been one of my superpowers. Not even a little. As most of you know, I went back to school this fall to get my Masters in Cartooning. I did a Kickstarter to raise the money for tuition and my project (for Kickstarter) was to keep a blog about the whole experience.
I've been blogging away... but neglecting THIS blog. Again - not good at multi-tasking!
This weekend I posted the same blog post on this blog and the Glyphs & Glitches blog - and that confused some of the folks who follow both. And that got me thinking... this week marks the 1/4 mark of my program. The first semester is coming to a close! So, to celebrate (the holidays and my quarter mark) - I'm inviting you to come and check out the Glyphs & Glitches blog. You can read back through the posts and experience the thrills and chills...
This is free - my gift to you. But you won't get the cool things that I have emailed to the subscribers - like pdfs and new posts in your inbox.
If you WOULD like pdfs of my comics and all new posts directly to your email inbox - you can subscribe through my Etsy shop... HERE. (Just be aware that you don't get an object or actual download from Etsy. It will send you an image file which is just a placeholder.) Once I get your subscription, I'll add your email to the subscription list and anything new will come right to ya!
I've also added a PayPal button to the blog (and I'll put it here too...)
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If you missed the Kickstarter and would like to contribute to my campaign/project now - I'd love to have your support and enthusiasm. There is still another semester of crazy hard work to come and, depending on the level of your contribution, I hope to be sending out some fun things this spring.
To those of you who have already joined me on my adventure - THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! As you know from reading the G&G blog - I am learning so many new things (and hopefully, so are you). I couldn't do what I do without you and it wouldn't be as much fun without the sharing of experiences.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! and I hope you enjoy reading the blog. Cheers, Sandy
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School has kept me so busy and it is hard to coordinate time with my daughter, so I decided my Christmas present for Lilah this year would be a few days with me.
We saw Mary Poppins at Northern Stage last night.
I'd had trouble getting tickets- all the matinees were sold out and the evening performances had no seats together. But, after begging, just a little, the ticket lady gave us the last two seats in the handicap section. Which turned out to be right on the stage!!
We were so close, we could have untied the actors' shoelaces. Lilah was on the edge of her seat in awe at the special effects and she barely kept herself from jumping up and joining the dancing. On the walk home, I asked her what she thought of it all. She yelled, "it was practically PERFECT in every way!!!"
This morning we played with Minou, who has missed Lilah a lot (or at least her sneakers?)
Then we did a little holiday decorating and got really silly singing songs on YouTube.
Right now we are exploring at Montshire Science Museum. It is 50 degrees outside, sunny, and very un-wintery... So we did the Planet Walk hike. It was beautiful, and just a tiny bit creepy with no one else in the woods.
We found a cool fairy house tree.
And we made it to the "Sun" - the end of the trail.
There is a new exhibit on light...
And another about gears...
And of course, our favorite - the bubbles...
Right now she has befriended a gaggle of kids and they are building a temple or something...
I'm getting hungry. I have visions of cinnamon buns at King Arthur Bakery and then maybe a movie... "The Good Dinosaur"... And then... Eight hours of sleep! Ah. The perfect day!
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On an unrelated note - I just posted this info on the Warner blog which was still sporting the "Spring" logo! Oh dear - and it's after Labor Day, how embarrassing! So I updated it to my Halloween Warner Logo - which I am rather proud of. Even if you aren't interested in Warner info, go take a quick look... it looks cool, right?!
OK, back to the regularly scheduled posting...
I went to this workshop a few weeks ago and found it to be incredibly helpful. It was a very small group so it worked more like a roundtable discussion. We were able to bring up our own, individual concerns and experiences.
The material covered applied to gallery artists, crafters, illustrators, and Zentangle teachers.
If you are in the area and able to make it - it is definitely worth your time!
And there are snacks - yum!
[We're talking fabulous baklava-type snacks, not Oreo snacks.]
Saturday, October 24th 9:30-1
“What Artists and Fine Crafts People should Know, but Don’t Workshop”
9:30 Registration, Coffee and Pastries
10:00 - 10:45 Amanda L. Nelson, Esq., Artium Amore PLLC., Lawyers for the Arts: Your art is your estate: don't throw it away OR don't give it to the government.
Networking
11:00 until 11:45 Professor Peter McGovern: New forms of employment for the artist: Commissioning and consignments
Networking
12:00 until 12:30 Dr. Catherine Bigley McGovern: Copyright, Creative Commons and the consequences of social media: Demonstration on the ease of copyright submission
Brown bag lunch with new friends and new ideas
Dr. Catherine McGovern:
What you need to know about COPYRIGHT LAWS
Dr. Peter McGovern:
Protecting yourself with the correct gallery and commission CONTRACTS and CONSIGNMENTS
Amanda Nelson, Esq.:
ESTATE PLANNING
Peter and Kate McGovern present and research in all areas where there is nexus between all art forms and the Law. They are invited to teach and present in this area of the Law regionally, nationally and internationally. They are co-host/presenters of the PROTECTING THE CREATIVE SPIRIT at Plymouth State University and co/host presenters of SMALL MUSEUMS, HISTORICAL HOUSES AND THE LAW at Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum. The McGoverns are adjunct professors at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Amanda Nelson is the founder of Artium Amore, PLLC, a law firm dedicated to the unique legal needs of artists. Before her legal career, Nelson was a museum curator and consultant for more than ten years. She regularly gives presentations to artists on a variety of legal issues so that they may protect themselves and their art work.
Cost: $25, limited to 25. Please send a check to the gallery or use credit card information for your reservations: [email protected] or call the gallery at 603-226-2046
Most of my posts lately are on the Glyphs & Glitches blog since they are cartoon school oriented. If you'd like to get access to those posts as well, but you missed the Kickstarter campaign, you can still subscribe though my Etsy store.
Lilah and I were at the Foothills Restaurant and it was really crowded with a long wait so she hunted down a coloring book and crayons. OMG - this was the stupidest Disney Princess knock-off yet!!?
Every drawing was basically the same. Every princess and pose and expression... the same. The kid and I decided it was our mission to make the images more interesting. We decided on a horror theme...
Here are some close-ups - hope you aren't squeamish!
Here's my Maleficient-ish vampire princess...
.. ah, yeh, she was a vacant princess emerging from the bushes with a rose. It was already "weird" before I embellished it!
And Lilah turned her princess into a Witch-Zombie princess with a dangerous snake! (The snake was originally a string of pearls.)
So. That was fun.
A bit more artsy... at my apartment at school...
I think I posted about this table I painted, a few years ago? It has three "faux" Zentangle tiles painted on it... I love that it confuses people and they try to pick them up, or move them before putting food down! Ha ha!
Now that it is my actual kitchen table, not just a pretty accent in the studio... I realized I needed coasters to protect it. So I made some on Zazzle that look like real Zentangle tiles, but these CAN actually be moved around. Ha ha!
(I'll probably get confused first).
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The book will hit the shelves of all major book retailers on October 13th and it is already available online for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other online stores.
I should be getting my copy next week - I'll give you a preview of some of the art. :-)
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Ah, well. Here is something that doesn't have anything to do with Kickstarter - not that I am obsessed or anything. Although, Friday IS the final day for the Glyphs & Glitches campaign...
Every year, on my grandmother's birthday (Aug. 26th), we have a party for her. In the graveyard. This year we did it a little early because both the kids would be away this week.
Gramma Magda was an amazing lady who once rescued her mother-in-law from a concentration camp. Show of hands... how many of us would do that? Exactly.
She was also an artist and had a really warp-y sense of humor. I like to think she is smiling down at me from heaven and nodding over my decision to go to Cartoon School! If she were still alive, she'd probably enroll right along with me. Although... there's an interesting idea for a comic... hmmm... zombie or ghost cartoon student? Everyday life is just so full of "material"!
And she loved bears and chocolate. That's why we put a bear on the gravestone and we always place our food offerings right under his nose. I am sure there is a bear in the surrounding woods (perhaps with my grandmother's own spirit) who anxiously awaits the arrival of August 26th every year!
Alex placed the huge, super fudge-y looking piece of chocolate cake - from the Foothills in Warner - under the bear's nose.
I embellished it with a little flower from the Foothill's porch.
Lilah thought it would be a good idea to "check" and make sure the cake was chocolate-y enough.
We all agreed that would be a good idea. And everyone knows that chocolate cake eaten off the ground has no calories.
Although it does get under one's finger nails.
Good thing it started out as a huge piece. There was still plenty left for the bear.
We've been holding our celebrations for 5 years now and I was kind of amazed at how much my kids have changed. Here's my favorite photo of Lilah at the first celebration...
I think she is still very stylish, at age almost-9, but you can't help but love the self-confidence at age 4! Not everyone can carry off a pink tutu and red glitter shoes. At a graveyard party.
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There are only a few days left for my Kickstarter campaign to fund my Glyphs & Glitches project. If you have been thinking about it - or maybe had no idea I was even doing this... I strongly encourage you to go check it out and make a decision. ASAP.
Even at the lowest pledge level ($25), you will get access to the blog that will follow me through Cartoon School. You will learn all kinds of cool, artsy things right along with me. After the Kickstarter is over, I will offer access to the blog through my Etsy shop, but it will be more than $25. (So it's a good deal too!)
The way Kickstarter works is - the project must meet the funding goal by this FRIDAY! or I don't get any of the money that has been pledged. Which also means that no one gets their rewards. Agh! And I have already started making up the cool little boxes of Goodies!! BTW - their are only 9 more of those available!
If you haven't had a chance to look at the project, but are curious what kinds of cool things you might get... I will list them all here for your convenience!
You: "What's in it for me?"
Me: You get the experience of going to Cartoon School without the stress, sleepless nights, spilled ink, and lack of talent!
You: "Cool. But what do I get?"
$10 - THANKS Everyone at this level and higher gets their name on the list of Project Backers on the blog. I'm also happy to add a simple link to your website from your name in the list.
$25 - FRIENDS! Everyone at this level and higher will get the "Glyphs and Glitches" blog sent directly to their email inbox.
$50 - DIGITAL FRIENDS get all three of my Inspiration Sketchbook pdfs to download. The three ebooks are "The Tangles of Kells," "The Tangles of Santa Fe," and "The Bauble Tree." (Everyone at this level and higher will get the three digital downloads!)
$100 - FRIENDS with GOODIES will get a little box stuffed with Stuff! Including: Signed copies of "The Tangles of Kells" and "The Tangles of Santa Fe" books, a pack of AlphaTangled cards, tattoos, stickers, pins, rubber stamps... and anything else that might fit. (I've had a lot of different businesses, so lots to choose from!) I've limited the goody boxes to 30 so I can make them really great! I expect to have these mailed out in September or October, depending on how many there are. (Only a few left!)
$150 - STUDIOMATES will join me for a monthly blog "Open Studio". You can submit your questions, art problems, thoughts... throughout the month, and I'll do my best to answer as many as I can on the blog. I am hoping for 9 blog Open Studios (school year is Sep.-May).
$200 - STUDIOMATES... with GOODIES will join me for a monthly blog "Open Studio" AND I'll send you a little box stuffed with Stuff! This box of stuff may have some additional special Goodies... oh, say, maybe an original, vintage AlphaTangle book, or a print, or...?
$250 - STUDIOMATE V.I.P.s can take part in the Open Studio each month. V.I.P.s will also get 1 hour of my undivided attention - through FaceTime or through emails. I'll be your creativity coach, Zentangle guru, or encouraging elementary art teacher. Whatever you are struggling with - from publishing questions to how to shade your piece of art to brainstorming your craft room layout. I'll spill my thoughts, sketch, or even shoot a video if you need the visual help. Need an open mind to share a "crazy" ("cool, unusual...") idea? I'll listen. [Note: this is one hour total, not one hour every month. However, you could break it up into shorter sessions- like having "Sandy-on-call." ] You have until the end of April 2016 to use your hour. And yes, it is perfectly ok to ask a question "for a friend."
$250 - CARTOON YOU - I'll create a cartoon avatar of you! Use it for social media or on your calling cards (any non-commercial use). You can decide if you want a full figure or just head and shoulders. Send me at least 4 clear photos and let the fun begin! The final image will be sent to you as a jpeg, so no postage is necessary.
$250 - SHAMELESS PLUG - I'll put an ad/link for you, your business, or your product on the blog. Creativity is welcome! The ad will stay on the blog until May 2016.
The Shameless Pug
$650 - The SHAMELESS PUG really likes you! I'll put an ad/link for you AND I'll review your product (book, website, whatever you like) on the blog AND I'll include it (the product) or you, in a comic strip, and post it on the blog. [Note: for reviews, I'll need a sample of the item. I'd particularly love to "review" a new iMac, a large format scanner, and a fuel efficient car!] You have until March 2016 to claim your Pug.
$3,000 - BACKSTAGE PASS - At this level, you are a very good friend, close family... or a stalker. Either way, you can't stay at my apartment! But, I will put you up at The Hotel Coolidge (good example of a Shameless Plug!), for a night. I'll take you out for lunch - BBQ? Turkish? Food co-op? And then I'll show you behind the scenes at the Cartoon School! You'll get to see the studios and such rarities as the kind-of-creepy-but super-cool cartoon graffiti bathroom! That's not for kids though. Some of those drawings bring new meaning to "bathroom humor"! ...And other exciting sites. I'll also give you a Cartoon School tote bag or some other memento of the lovely day. And, depending on the day you visit - you may get to attend other intriguing events, like a film night or a visiting artist lecture. And yes, you can bring a friend, spouse, or kid. Or two. But not two spouses. That's just wrong. You have until May 2016 to use your reward. This level also has Studiomate status so you can take part in the blog Open Studios.
$4,000 - The COLLECTOR - You just KNOW that someday my art will be famous, right? Especially with all the skills I will learn at Cartoon School! You can start your collection while my art is still affordable. ;-) You will get an original, fabulous, framed piece of my Zentangle art! This piece uses black, brown and sepia inks as well as white chalk - on handmade lokta paper. It is professionally framed. Big and impressive! Just the way art should be. It might even match your sofa.
The Baron is not included. He is a character from my rubber stamp line, and volunteered to help show scale.
Here is a close up of the piece:
So those are the amazing rewards you can get for backing my Glyphs & Glitches project! I added a few of these as requests - so if you have an idea for a reward that you want to see - and are willing to back... let me know real quick as there are only a few days left!
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I have discovered two drawbacks (pardon the pun) to having my art supplies neatly organized in mugs on my drafting table. 1. They are much more appealing than my daughter's disorganized materials. 2. They are easily removed from my drafting table...
Although I have to admit that I also work on the floor... the bed... the couch. Which is why my supplies are so portable.
So what have I been doing on my actual drafting table? I thought I would show you how I created the header for my Glyphs & Glitches blog. This is also the same design I used for the project image on Kickstarter, with a slight shift to my cartoon character.
If you have been curious about the Kickstarter Project and wondering what the blog will be like, this post will give you a good example.
The Process:
This was the original blog header:
It's a pencil drawing I had done of canopic jars - to go along with the Egyptian "glyph" part. And if you have canopic jars in your life, you definitely have a "glitch" or two. (Canopic jars were used to store the organs when a person was mummified).
I updated it to be more relevant to cartooning and added my avatar "thinking"...
But my art directors didn't think anyone would "get" it. My sister (art director #2) suggested I start over and have me thinking about my kids and cat, since that is what I write about... with cartoon accents. Fine.
I started with a pencil sketch of the kids sitting on the sofa with Minou sprawled on the back.
The Lilah Beans found their way in and, as usual, started interacting with the other characters. One is pulling Alex's ear, one is sleeping on the cat's paw, another is petting Lilah... and I tossed a Bumblebat in too, just hanging around.
I inked over the pencil sketch with brown ink for the kids and dark gray for everything else.
I added the tangle, Printemps, in the background in light gray ink because I tend to put it anywhere I need to fill space. Swirls appeal to my chaotic mind...
I added more brown to the kids with crosshatching, then darkened the shadowy areas with black pen.
I really liked this 3 color drawing. This is where I also get stuck. Keep it simple? Or push it with color? Agh. Once again, the art directors decided "color!" And I thought - yes, that could work... just as I liked the contrast between the slightly realistic drawing and the cartoon drawing, I thought I could use the monotone cartoon against the colored reality.
I didn't really think that hard about it, I was getting desperate to get to work on the rest of the Kickstarter project!
So I scanned the art into Photoshop (actually I use Photoshop Elements, but I intend to learn all about the "real" program in school).
I created a new layer to do all the color work. When I hid the line layer, it looked a little creepy! Notice the Lilah Bean's pink cheeks just floating in space?
But all together, I thought it worked...
I added my cartoon character thinking about it all, and the type, and then resized it to fit the width of the blog header. This is an actual screen shot from the blog:
The project image on Kickstarter has to be in a square format, so I rearranged the bubble, me, and the text:
For now, the material on the Glyphs & Glitches blog is reposted from this blog. This post will also be put on there. If... WHEN... the Kickstarter is funded, posts about cartoon school and step by steps like this one, will only be available on the G&G blog. You will still be able to get access to it, but the price will be higher.
There will also be more detail, and school will have started and the posts will get crazy exciting!
All that to say - please, please, please! back my Kickstarter project as soon as possible. There are only 13 days left to fund it.
To all of you who have already backed it, thank you so much! Now, get your friends to do it too! ;-)
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The kids helped me bring a mini-van load of boxes and important stuff - like my drafting table and a bunch of pancake pillows... to my new apartment near the cartoon school. Then they gave me their opinions on what furniture I should have moved - or not.
Lilah and I are still struggling over just which Legos we should bring... we have agreed that we should stick to a series - like Main Street, or Fairies. I think we will bring the Harry Potter sets since they were destroyed by a cat and need an excuse to be rebuilt. And there is a little desk that was left behind in the apartment that is just screaming for paint - and faux finish - to look like old stones...
Hogwarts will be resurrected on this desk!
And, as if we needed some kind of sign that this was the the right apartment, town, and school for me to be attending... look what we saw in the school's front window!!!
My new school... built out of Legos!!! Now I'm wondering if I should bring my whole Main Street set up... but then I might be tempted to "acquire" this building for the collection. Hmmm....
Here are two closer-up pics (I know you want to see!)
And the FLAG! How cool is that?
Back to the apartment... of course, I made a sketch of the floor plan and I have another of all the possible furniture that could go in there.
It has beautiful woodwork, except on the apartment doors to the hall.
They had to be backed with fireproofing or something and are really ugly. I got permission to turn them into chalkboards! (I always create large chalkboards in my habitats).
I'm hoping that, if I tell you all this, I will HAVE to follow through and paint stuff, just to prove to you that I did it.
My Kickstarter Blog Project is intended to work that way too. Accountability. I need accountability!
Then, back home... I felt inspired to pack up comic books to bring to school. We actually have a required reading list and I was searching around the house for my TinTin comics. Couldn't find them!? So I cracked open the 7 comic book boxes I had found in my mom's attic. Oh! Pandora had NOTHING on me!
Yes, I found the TinTins. And X-Men, New Mutants, She-Hulk, a gazillion Batman...
...some original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comics (from back when they were considered to be an underground parody comic!)
... Books of Magic, Sandman, Vampire Lestat... Lilah fell in love with the "What's Michael?" cat comics...
I think I have gotten a little distracted! And the movers come on Wednesday. Eeek!
I have spent a large part of this summer working on a Kickstarter Project and I am excited to say that my project, Glyphs & Glitches, has been approved and is now live on the website. And I am even more excited that I have my first backer!
If you are not familiar with Kickstarter, it is one of the larger, more well-known crowd-sourced funding sites. It's really fascinating to surf the site and see all the different ideas for projects. The creator sets a goal and a time limit. If you can raise the money in that time period, you can use it towards your project. If you fall short of the goal, you get nothing. Risky but exciting.
My project is a private blog that will follow my adventures through cartoon school. Take a look at it HERE or click on the image below.
I have only 20 days to raise the funds as I intend to get the blog rolling before school starts in the beginning of September. I'll do some more posts with more details about the project, but I wanted to get the info out there as soon as I could.
Whether or not you decide to back my project, I would very much appreciate you sharing the link and the project with your friends and family! Here is a short link to use: http://kck.st/1W7vTUi
If you have been following this Beez In The Belfry blog for a while, you know that I am going to grad school this fall - to the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont - to get my Masters in Applied Cartooning. It is a really tough program, but I am incredibly excited and also a little terrified! This summer, I have been closing down my BeeHive studio and selling off everything I can to raise money for the tuition and room and board.
While in school, I will be limiting my Etsy shop sales and Zentangle teaching. I do hope to be writing more and "teaching" through the Glyphs & Glitches blog. There are chances for you, through the Kickstarter reward levels, to get access to me and ask me questions. The cartoon program covers everything from writing, figure drawing, and Photoshop skills - to silkscreening, history of sequential art, and marketing. I'll tell you about the interesting things that I learn and also show you how what I'm learning might apply to the things that you are interested in. For example... I know that we will be learning about lettering, dip pens, and using non-photo blue pencils. I'm guessing you might like to know how they can be applied to your love of art journaling or Zentangle? Yes - me too!
The Glyphs & Glitches blog will be like an online Open Studio. I really hope that you will join me for this first year at cartoon school! I know that it will be difficult, but your support and encouragement keeps me moving forward and, as you already know, I love sharing my discoveries with you too!
Oh - and more incentive to go and look at the Project on Kickstarter - I posted my entire application comic at the end of the project description!
[I'll do another post soon to show you how I came up with the Project image and blog header.]
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I get a lot of emails... but the funniest, most unexpected one I received this week started like this:
"Sorry for the delay, I was in rural Poland and didn't have internet."
And then, the good part:
"I've just released the app, it should be live in the next 12-24 hours."
Yeah!
And, by the way, that message was from Ian, the developer of my Tangle Library App. When I sent him all the art, he was in France... I wonder where he was when he got internet back? He is on quite an adventure around the world. I am so glad that he is a geek and travels not only with his laptop, but the code for the APP!
This is actually a new In-app-purchase for the Tangle Library. I created a collection of 40 tangles and step-outs based on designs from my Inspiration Sketchbook - The Tangles of Kells.
You can get the Tangle Library APP on iTunes, HERE.
If you don't do i-anything (iPhone, iPod, iPad), you can get the books HERE.
If you already have the main APP, here is a video of how to get the new pack of tangles:
The video was done when there were only 2 choices, but it works the same. This is what the screen looks like with all the choices:
If you aren't seeing all the choices, be sure to "Update" the Tangle Library first and then try clicking the "Restore Previous Purchases".
Here are two more screenshots to get you excited!
There are some simpler tangles and some more challenging patterns too.
If you are having any trouble with the APP, have questions, or want to share what you have been using the APP for, be sure to visit the Tangle Library Facebook Page.
I really hope you like this new set of tangles! It was one of my big projects for the summer. The other big project is a Kickstarter campaign which should be live later today. I'll do another post soon and let you know all about that.
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I have recently become aware of a really bad habit that I have. I post the "daily" stuff to Facebook - rather than my blog! Shocking, I know. Summertime seems to start so late, and end so early. It is just flying by and if I don't take time to "blog" it, it will be .... gone.
My son, Alex, is off at Music Camp for a few weeks. This year he is a teacher! We are so proud. I was actually happy that he couldn't get a local job (since he would only have been working for a few weeks) - he was able to work on projects and spend time with his little sister. Lilah (little sister) has been doing a cool online Java programming class that uses Minecraft. She loves it, but it helps to have her brother working with her. They are both more than a little addicted to Minecraft!
So much so that, even when she doesn't have access to a computer or iPad, she is still designing. Good thing they have Etch-a-Sketches at the Foothills restaurant!
A few weeks back, Lilah and I decided it was time to FINALLY clean out the shed and turn it into the secret clubhouse it was always meant to be. I wish I had taken "Before" photos - but imagine, if you will...
We opened the shed door and millions of little bugs (Lilah called them cockroaches, but I'm sure they were not!) went scurrying into corners and under the floor. Thick cobwebs covered the old tricycle, lawnmower, pieces of broken trellis, tent, umbrella, kite... yuck! What was I thinking?! Close the door!!!
No. We dragged everything out onto the lawn, then Alex dragged it all to the corner of the street where we put a "FREE" sign on the ground. Amazingly - every bit of junk was gone within two days! (Thanks everyone!) I even watched a neighbor, who'd been walking his dog, help a guy load an old door on top of his little car and strap it down with bungees. Heartwarming.
We broomed and shop-vac-ed the ceiling and corners and floor (yuck yuck YUCK!) Then the fun began. We raided the garage for carpet pieces, unpainted furniture from my remaining stash (I KNEW there was a reason I'd been holding onto them), and Lilah took apart the broken kite and hung the streamers from the ceiling with tape.
It was festive, if not elegant.
We uncovered a few ancient mosaic stepping stones from Alex's 5th birthday (Pompeii theme. Yes, he was/is an unusual kid).
And we found some rubber stepping stones too. They made a nice front stoop. And some faded metal garden art flowers. Pretty cozy, don't you think?
Lilah took a basket filled with her Babies, some trail mix, musical instruments, crayons and notebook, and my iPad - and spent the rest of the day playing out there.
Speaking of the Babies, on another day, Amaret told Lilah it was a good day for a birthday party.
[A side note: Amaret is a MyTwinn doll so she was designed to look just like my kid. When Lilah was younger, she looked creepily similar to the doll - same hair and eye color, and Lilah had bangs too. Since Lilah's real name is "Lilah Amaret," we named her little sister "Amaret".]
Amaret has lots of cool doll clothes, but she prefers to wear Lilah's caste-offs. The biggest difference between them, other than the bangs, is Amaret LIKES to brush and braid her hair. Lilah? Not so much.
So - Amaret decided there would be a huge tea party... in my studio. And all the Babies and stuffies, including the Mythicals, would be bused (by basket) up to the party spot. The Babies took turns performing parts in "Thumbelina."
And then they required snacks. Like cheese cut into mouse and squirrel shapes...
And chocolate milk.
The party ended when Lilah got angry at the Babies for not drinking their milk... and then accusing ME of drinking some when she left the room. I mean, REALLY!?
It was a good party though and everyone slept well that night.
Speaking of bed... I wonder what Lilah would say if she knew that Minou, the cat, takes over her bed when she is away?
Minou has become great friends with Scruffy Kitty! I don't think she cares that SK is just a hand puppet.
Let's throw in something completely random, but rather pretty. This is a bee? Wasp? Big scary, flying thing that was in our kitchen! Just before I opened the screen to let it out, I noticed the cool markings on its back - they reminded me of my Bumblebat logo's face.
And lastly, I have been obsessed with clearing out houses and trying to sell some of them and the stuff in them and finding things I will need to furnish my apartment at school....
If you are looking for an amazing - HUGE - house at a ridiculously low price - to live in, turn into a restaurant or apartments, or an art center... you have been looking for my mother's house. It's right on Main Street in Warner (an adorable New England town) and next door to my BeeHive Studio - which is also for rent.
And if you have been looking for an adorable vacation cottage in New Hampshire so you can run away from home and focus on your art or your novel.... you need our cottage on Blaisdell Lake!
And did I mention I'm hoping to rent out my BeeHive studio space? We're still holding lots of sales to clear it out. This week the sales are on Thursday and Friday from Noon till 7pm and Sunday from 11-5pm. And listing stuff on my Etsy store too.
PHEW! Inhale...exhale...
And staying up crazy late working on an idea for a Kickstarter Project. I have done so much research, even taken a class on Skillshare, and I think I have a really great idea... but I'm not sure if Kickstarter is the best way for me to raise the money I need.
I think if I were making a product, or printing an actual book, it could work well. But with the risk of not making the funding goal, the 5% Amazon takes in fees, the 3% for credit card processing... and then the rather large cost of shipping folks their rewards (at exactly the time I will be starting school). Plus, with Kickstarter, the focus is on the rewards and the intro movie - rather than on the actual idea. I think I would rather put 95% of my effort into making the IDEA the best possible, rather than making a cool campaign.
I need to do some really intense thinking, I guess, and FAST! If any of you have experience with crowd-sourced funding, I'd appreciate hearing your wisdom. If you like to support cool ideas, what do you look for? What compels you to back a project? Would you rather just click a Paypal button? Do you like to get "stuff"?
Put your opinions in the comments section below!
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If you follow Zentangle trends, you have been seeing a lot of posts about tangling on toned papers. Tan or gray are the most common. Sea shells, flowers... very nice. But I like to be a bit different - or weird, maybe? So I am going to share some behind the scenes pics for a large drawing I did about a year ago on Strathmore Toned Gray paper (see the end of the post for details on the paper).
My inspiration for the drawing was a stone wall pillar in the corner of my apartment. For some reason, as I was staring at the wall... I started to see creatures emerging from the rocks!
(Go ahead and try it for yourself. I'll wait...)
So I sketched the creatures in my notebook.
...and then redrew them onto the gray paper using pencil and then, a Micron pen.
Using different sizes of Microns, I added tangles to the entire background. I was thinking of deep-sea creatures, so the tangles are kind of sea-weedy and bubbly.
I added more pencil shading behind the creatures in order to push back the background and help the critters pop out a bit more.
Next - I used a white Prismacolor pencil to add some highlights on the backs, foreheads and noses...
Here's a close-up with some highlights...
I used a Prismacolor black pencil to add the darkest darks to the underbellies and crevices. And some details like eyeballs and mustaches!
And there we are.
We used to carry these Toned Papers in the store (the BeeHive). Today, I took the remaining inventory and put it on my Etsy shop (Bumblebat) The paper is available in gray or tan - and then you can choose between hardcover, or spiral-bound sketch journals. And the hardcover journals come in 8.5 x 11 or 5.5 x 8.5 inch sizes! So many choices.
The one I use in my example is the larger, hardcover, gray paper journal. The spiral bound sketchbooks are great if you want to remove pages (they have micro-perforations) to frame or to cut up for smaller artworks, or for use in classes.
And to thank you for reading all-the-way-to-the-end... here is a coupon code for my Etsy store: BLOGLOVE
Enter the coupon in the promo code box during check out, and you will get a 15% discount. It's good until the end of July, on purchases over $10.
Now go draw something!
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Sitting in the dark, on the deck, watching the sparkly sky - in between the tree branches... very pretty. It's cool the way the lightning bugs looked like they were falling off the fireworks. But I don't think I will ever really enjoy the sounds of the explosions - especially as they ricochet off the mountains. Too creepy.
If I looked West, I could see the best colors from the fireworks one town over. If I looked South, I could see flashes of light and hear more of the sizzling kind of rockets.
There are still pops and bangs echoing around - some from even farther away, some from neighbor's driveways. The raucous party sounds have died down finally.
Although I am happy to celebrate my own Independence, I miss my kids and think of the 4th as a lonely holiday. With pretty lights.
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I've got that crazy feeling like life is on the super-speed setting! Here are just a few of the events that took place in the last few minutes..
Lilah won Math League!
My brother, Dave, the Hollywood animator, married Amy in San Francisco.
Lilah flew out there to be a flower girl. And met her new BFF - who also loves iPads and Minecraft!
Alex had tons of concerts and got lots of awards and gave a speech and then graduated from High School!
This made him very happy!
And my peonies burst out overnight.
Phew. I don't usually disappear from my blog for more than a week or two - but I honestly didn't realize so much time had past.
What am I up to?
Well, I am working on an addition to the Tangle Library APP (YEAH!). I'm also in sketch/research phase for a new Inspiration Sketchbook. I have a few other projects in various states of disrepair, but I am trying to focus on those two in particular for the summer.
I also found an apartment to live in for cartoon school and I'm starting to get crazy nervous-excited to start school this fall! And trying to raise money to do it all. I'm playing with the idea of doing a Kickstarter project... or maybe going it on my own... and still selling off lots of stuff from my studio on Etsy and Amazon (20 pages of books and action figures!) I've been making boxes of art supplies and bundles of books. No matter how much I clean out and bundle up - my studio is like that Chinese rice pot in the fairy tale - it seems to keep refilling! I have been finding some intriguing "lost" artwork, childhood memories, family photos and other proof of my past lives.
I had this crazy idea that to pay for the room and board portion of my school adventure, I would rent out my studio! (The BeeHive, the public studio, not the one in my house.) So... now... I have to empty it out!
Starting this Saturday, we'll be having Studio Clear-out Sales! Every week there will be new things added to the mix as I empty the classroom, office, and storage room. There are a lot of new art supplies and books right now. I also have shopping bags, gift boxes and all that stuff. Displays - big and small. A kiln, mosaic supplies, wood objects to paint or tangle... A huge Accucut die cutter and a gazillion dies (it cuts paper, fabric, cardboard... even thin metal).
I'll just keep adding stuff as I can drag it out. Come by and take a look or email me. Feel free to make an offer. I have less than a month and I'm happy to find new homes for these old friends.
If you are interested in renting the space or know someone who might be, talk to me! The front shop room is bright and roomy, the classroom has lots of lights and a slop-sink, and it's own exterior door, there's a big bathroom too. The office space and storage room aren't included. But you could use the store fixtures if you like.
Here is the schedule for the Studio Sales...
The BeeHive will be open:
Saturday, June 27 from 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, July 3 from 10:00am-5:00pm Saturday, July 4 from 10:00am-5:00pm Sunday, July 5 from Noon-5:00pm Friday, July 10 from 10:00am-5:00pm Saturday, July 11 from 10:00am-5:00pm Friday, July 17 from 10:00am-5:00pm Saturday, July 18 from 10:00am-Noon Sunday, July 19 from Noon-5:00pm Friday, July 24 from 10:00am-5:00pm Saturday, July 25 from 10:00am-5:00pm
That's it - better be empty by the end of July! :-)
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(published by Monacelli/Penguin Random House) which is currently being printed and bound.
