Appliqué is the practice of sewing one smaller piece of fabric onto a larger piece of fabric to create a decoration, pattern, or image.
It’s super fun!!
I love it! I wanna appliqué everyt...
2023-01-04 21:58:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Several years ago, Lucy Bellwood introduced me to the Unravel Your Year journal-type-thing project. It’s this ...
2023-01-03 22:55:12 +0000 UTC View Post
My previous post summarized the first six months of the art I made in 2022, and now I present to you the second half!
2022-12-30 23:58:01 +0000 UTC
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What did I make in 2022? More than can fit in one post, that's for sure.
During one of my routine visits to Goodwill (secondhand shop), I found this giant photo canvas print o...
2022-12-30 02:39:44 +0000 UTC View Post
These are the sashes that came with the curtains that came with the house we bought nine years ago.
They’ve been disintegrating for years and for years I keep telling myself I will (hand) sew rep...
2022-12-17 05:29:33 +0000 UTC View Post
In January of 2020, I started a journal quilt. At the start of each month I wrote a few sentences about how I felt in that moment, and then I would illustrate it by cutting out and assembling images from my stack of collage-fodder magazines and books. From that picture, I would base my quilt squa...
2022-12-14 01:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostHa-HAH!
Remember two weeks ago I was all "oh nooooo, I haven't started working on my book outline yet, bloo bloo bloo" and then I was like "Two weeks from now, Friday, D...
2022-12-02 23:06:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The first thing I do with a new sketchbook is label the cover with my starting month and year, and then add a second blank label below it for the future concluding date. It's a habit I started during my 2005 semester in France, since I was blowing through my sketchbooks faster than I ever had bef...
2022-12-01 23:06:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Efffffffffff! I forgot to post the chapter in between Day 9 and the Epilogue! DAY 10. Th...
2022-11-21 21:47:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, so like.
I finished the first draft of LETTERS FROM SPACE CAMP. You all know ...
2022-11-18 22:24:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Holy cow, I filled up my sketchbook and started a new one in RECORD TIME. Normally, it takes me over a year to finish a sketchbook, and that’s mostly with my lists and notes with only a handful of actual drawings. But this time? Four months! And it’s basically ALL DRAWINGS. Wowowow. Who even ...
2022-11-09 20:02:38 +0000 UTC View Post
(Originally published August 13, 2014 on The Nib)
2022-11-03 00:09:58 +0000 UTC
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(Originally posted August 11, 2017 on my previous Patreon account)
2022-11-02 23:05:15 +0000 UTC
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This past August, Matt and I went to Laurelhurst Park for an evening of Poetry Comics. 2022-10-27 01:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Even though I diligently took a daily photo of my little broc’s progression, I did fall behind on drawing it. The above row of sketches were churned out in one long session with the intentio...
2022-10-24 17:44:04 +0000 UTC View Post
October 10th
October 10th- no wait-oh fuck.
That one is actually October 11...
2022-10-17 02:55:05 +0000 UTC View Post
As is the way of my people (artists on social media), October is traditionally the month of drawing once a day on some set subject while referring to your project as #[Theme]tober. In the past I've done #Inktober (straight-to-ink), #OCTOber (octopus), #Locktober (Lady LovelyLocks, although there ...
2022-10-11 04:36:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt found these photos from 2013. This is the very first picture taken of what would become our backyard, from our first tour of the house:
A couple months later, this was our first sno...
2022-09-28 20:00:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Normally it takes me well over a year to fill up a sketchbook, both the pages with my notes and the covers with stickers.
This book, however, has been different. I only started it three...
2022-09-24 04:35:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, so a bunch of my Helioscope studiomates went out to the coast to assemble a 1,000 piece puzzle* and after many many many hours we discovered that thREE PIECES WERE MISSING.
2022-09-19 21:57:37 +0000 UTC
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Here we have the glorious lifecycle of the noble potato! From first baby leafling breaking through the earth to the final harvest of those rich, magnificent tubers, this is not just the story of a root vegetable, nay, it is the story of us all on a spiritual level, is it not?
Potatoes are r...
2022-09-13 20:58:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis is my latest collaboration with acclaimed writer Lux Alptraum for The Nib!
2022-09-08 00:58:49 +0000 UTC
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(Originally published November 9, 2017 on my previous account.)
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2022-09-07 00:55:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! So. I have been working on a memoir about going through the Intensive Outpatient Program in 2019 and posting up each rough comic chapter as I finish it here, on this very Patreon.
2022-09-06 02:39:32 +0000 UTC
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Let's be honest, you're probably here for the comics so here's an index of them, all in one spot! Wanna read the locked ones? 2022-09-06 02:14:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Another accidental selfie as I fumbled with my phone to take a picture of my plants.
2022-09-06 01:44:28 +0000 UTC
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