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....
Always feels like there should be bells ringing or something when a big project is finished... I just - quietly - ate a piece of carrot cake. But I know you all will understand the momentous-ness of this momentous occasion, so here are the behind-the-scenes details... I've shown you some of what I...
I have been "Obsessing Over the Mini-Thesis Project." With good reason. It's due April 29th and I'm wondering if I have... again... bitten off more than I can chew. I had to knock off work on it for a few days while I went home to be "Mom&...
To see what I did on my Spring Break, take a look at my Beez In The Belfry blog post. It involved the ocean and lots of chocolate - so, in all, an excellent break! I got a lot of time to draw comics while I was in Bar Harbor. I wandered around, sat in...
We started our lesson on Non-Fiction comics with a field trip to Clay Hill Corners Farm in Hartland, VT to talk with Marty Banak and listen in as he was interviewed. He showed us around the amazing farm and his sugar shack (on wheels!). Greenhouses, bees, blueberries, even a little mushroom farm. I kept thinking,...
I've been working on the "Rip-Off comic" - I have to combine the basic story line of the movie "Maze Runner" with my research on trailer parks. My main characters are Thomas, Brianna, Lucy, and Chuck, the cat. Here are my character sketches for a few of them... I...
