Visual Wizardry & Exceptional Lollygagging

My CSS subscription is about wear out here. Having poked around on blogspot, where you can tweak CSS and have your own banner for free, I am moving. I’m starting to set up shop here.

It’s always a pain to move blogs, but also it…isn’t. Not really. WordPress is okay but I am rather put-out by the lack of design control — particularly when I’ve used diaryland where you can literally build your own template in an empty HTML box. I also hate the way the archives are structured, and you have to do an epic amount of coding to get them to do anything else, as far as I can tell.

So. Click the link and come join me. I’m moving a couple posts, and then I have a NEW thing. woo!

Here is a shamefully quick one to let you know about my new portfolio. It’s through Carbonmade, which I know nothing about. Ain’t that how it goes.

Portland comes ever closer. There is a chance I will be living in a studio, which means that the art stuff will be front and center. And even if not, the whole me-in-Portland-and-Anthony-in-Eugene thing should mean lots more art than Ive been doing. Which is good.

Bosch-esque

Fresh and wonderful

The robot batteries one is great

What do you call a Maggie that has been told, for the third time, that she cannot take art classes at the university she is attending?

Super-Pissed

I am going to pay my dollar I owe Etsy and then pull my paintings. It’s just a waste of time and money at this point. I am also going to pull my indepublic page, since it’s mostly useless. I’m not really sure why I started it in the first place, other than it seemed like a good idea, and it seemed like a lot of other people were doing it. And that’s a dumb excuse to do anything, yo.

My job last week was to go around and find interesting articles to illustrate, but instead I ended up going to a memorial service and kind of let my brain get sucked out of me for a few days. So I’ve barely drawn anything since Last last Tuesday, which is pathetic. Today I am going to try and play some catch up, possibly go to the zoo, and add a little color back into my life.

Some unrelated projects I’ve been up to:

1. I made a lunch bag out of fabric — modeled after a small paper sack and made with a green plaid homespun and this great fabric I found in the shirtings section of Joann’s that is light green with aliens all over it.

2. Paper leaves to put up around here and on this horrible post at work.

3. I’m going to decoupage my mini-cooler with pictures from a few Golden Books I picked up at Goodwill yesterday. This cooler is one of my bosom buddies, something I stole from my Mother’s house and that has traveled with me ever since on many-a-quest. It’s time for it to reflect me a little better.