Kriota Willberg is a dancer, massage therapist, and anatomical/medical cartoonist! Not only did she speak this afternoon as one of our visiting artists, but she came to life drawing class this morning. Sure, she knows everything about bones and muscles and where they attach on the skeleton.... but what was SO cool was that...
After class this evening all the students went out back to the parking lot for a pizza and apple cider pressing party. That is - we ate pizza and pressed apples! Pizza juice... shudder. The apple cider was amazing! We couldn't fill up our containers though until the whole car load of apples...
I came home from class today, plopped onto the sofa and was promptly pinned down by Minou. I think she missed me. On Friday, we had an interesting workshop with an artist, Kristina Carroll (her work is amazing!) from Strathmore paper company. [KristinaCarrollArt.com] She explained how papers were made and what that meant for...
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...
[This post was originally published on the Zentangle for Kidz! site.] This summer I was lucky enough to attend a Comic Camp at the Center for Cartoon Studies in VT. My daughter Lilah visited the classroom every chance she got and spent a lot of time working on her own comics ideas. I posted about...
My hotel room smells like feet. So does the hallway. And the lobby... This place - the Hotel Coolidge in White River Junction, Vermont - is an intriguing mix of blast from the past, mysterious - and "well, that's what you get for the price." I have definitely stayed in much...
