Parade of Desserts
From the Easter feast. Because you didn't really want to see the healthy food, did you??
2017-04-17 00:09:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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Taxes
...were so traumatic I made tiny tax cake. With frosting. From scratch without a recipe. 😖
2017-04-15 23:33:15 +0000 UTC View PostCoracle, Chapter 8: Bread and Cheese
At least, Marda thought it was a dragon.
Like most people, she knew dragons existed. They’d been mentioned in stories since time out of mind—even the Savior had met one, and the first Knight to ...
2017-04-15 21:52:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Coracle, Chapter 7: Marda Floats to School
The stream carried Marda under trees that were woven together overhead like a leafy hall, and the late summer leaves cast cool shadows on her head and shoulders. She tugged her shawl more tightly arou...
2017-04-14 17:28:36 +0000 UTC View PostCandle Friday
So I was thinking. Every week, I go light a candle for family, friends, and for people in general... and if one of you mentions something, I usually add you to the list too: thank-yous for new babies,...
2017-04-14 14:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post...
This blew my mind. Maybe it'll blow yours too. Good morning all!
2017-04-14 11:07:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe Flowered Walk
Some color for your day.
(Such a pretty walk must lead somewhere magical, don't you think?)
Lunchbag Art: Chickens
Actual chickens this time!
(boing boing boing)
2017-04-13 11:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostRar, Ready for a Fight!
And the models out of their boxes and set up. (This is the link to get one!) Some obs...
2017-04-12 22:17:13 +0000 UTC View PostArt Tools!
It was Ariel Starshadow who mentioned these new posable artist models in our community forum so I thought I should s...
2017-04-12 17:50:11 +0000 UTC View PostCoracle, Rest of Chapter 6
Since y'all are enjoying it. :)
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After dinner, Mama said, “Come with me. I’d like to show you something.”
Together they went to the shed where Patches slept. Marda’s pa...
2017-04-12 14:20:23 +0000 UTC View PostCoracle, Ch. 6: Marda's Choice
Something a little happier now!
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When she returned to the house, Patric pounced on her, hugging her knees. “When you become an Outremer you need to ask your saint for a dragon because tha...
2017-04-11 17:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the Rising Tide No Longer Lifts All Boats
An observation from the trenches.
Most of you have been with me long enough to have heard the Three Jaguars line: once you accept money for your art (or craft), you are now selling products, not you...
2017-04-11 14:01:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Coracle, Chapter 5
Poor Marda! Being a teenager is hard.
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CHAPTER FIVE
A LACK OF TRUMPETS
Waking up after praying for something you want is almost as exciting as waking up on your birt...
2017-04-08 12:58:36 +0000 UTC View PostPost-Bookbub Numbers, March
Over on the community, Erika asked how my post-February-promotion numbers were doing, so I thought 'hey, I bet she's not t...
2017-04-07 16:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostNom
Blueberries may not make it into the recipe at this rate...
(Amusingly, the recipe and the notes were written by my spouse and myself. Bet most people won't guess right whose handwriting is whose.)<...
2017-04-07 13:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostBlackberries Ripening
These will be ready in June. Blueberry season has already started!
2017-04-07 12:40:56 +0000 UTC View PostAdministrivia
Still busy with sick child...not drawing much or getting much done (including sleep). But it is April! So I wanted to set the chat day for the month and I am tentatively choosing Monday the 17th.
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Tell Me What You Want to See!
No lunch bags this week, because Sick Child. In lieu of that, I thought I'd do some audience participation! As I'm wrapping up both Dreamhealers and Princes' Game shortly, I'm looking for new series i...
2017-04-03 14:45:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe Emperor's First Shapes
Since I did the Queen's, I thought I'd do his, too. His were more challenging, since he got the eyes mostly wrong on the first, somewhat better on the second, and then mostly right on the last... so m...
2017-04-02 18:42:54 +0000 UTC View PostNews: Writing Progress, March
For those of you not in the $5+ slots, reading the sneak peeks and listening to me puzzle out why my workstyle has abruptly changed, here's the meters for March so you can see how 2017's projects are ...
2017-04-01 12:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
The Queen and Her Shapes
I was trying to clean this one up and I kind of like how it looked at this stage so I left it this way!
The Queen, and the three shapes she knows at the end of Wingless: (from left to right...
2017-03-27 23:18:14 +0000 UTC View PostLast ICFA Sketch
I did a lot of long conversations with people at bars or tables, so if I wasn't eating, I was drawing. I think sometimes it's easier for people of you aren't making meaningful eye contact all the time...
2017-03-26 23:04:33 +0000 UTC View Post
