Our artist today was John Martz, a cartoonist and kids' book illustrator from Canada. One idea I'd like to steal is to find a signature character (his is a robot) and use it as a daily drawing exercise - fill a sketchbook with just that character interacting with the panels of the...
I did a post on my Beez In the Belfry blog a bit earlier this week about the Artsy Weekend with the Kid - I realized I wanted to show you folks some more stuff from this weekend. I mentioned in that post that Lilah joined the Cartoon Club for kids that meets once a...
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...
Four weeks off from school! Hurrah!! Hurrah! I had so many great projects to work on like making a book for you folks, completing my Kickstarter promises, finishing the book I started this summer... hanging out with my kids (hadn't seen my college kid in ages!), and maybe even... GASP... getting some sleep....
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...
Whoa! It's done! One of four semesters. Finished. Sigh. Our last class, instead of Visiting Artists, was a Reading Party. What a great way to end the semester and then head off to break. There were tons of yummy cakes and cookies, including some decorate your own cookies. My fireman had dropped off...
