daily doodle for May 24, 2010
The weather has become entirely too hot, entirely too quickly. All I want to do is take cool showers and eat ices. Lime ones.
Today was a paperwork day. I made my heap and mounds of papers smaller, but they are still glaring at me from corners demanding attention. It’s a short week as I head out to Kansas for the next appearance on my book tour at week’s end. It will be nice to catch up with people I haven’t seen in a few years.
daily doodle for April 27, 2010
daily doodle for April 28, 2010
daily doodle for April 29, 2010
There are no doodles for the 30th and the first because everything was entirely too soggy and I didn’t want to take my sketchbook out and risk it in the weather. It was bad enough that we decided to pack up a day early and drive back to St. Louis Saturday evening. Pulled in and collapsed back at the house around 1:30 am Sunday morning. Unpacked this morning and am getting all the camping gear washed/repacked to go out to the next event on Thursday. PLEASE, whoever orders the weather for these things, no more rain. Please?
I am casting around for my next focus in the daily doodles. I have no idea why it is so hard to get back into the habit of doing this every morning. I guess I am just trying to do too much. But what else is new.
I want to have all the items on my list done before I head out on the beginning of my book tour on Friday. Sadly, for me, the list keeps getting stuff added to it as the week progresses. Still, I have cleared the desk of paperwork, and I am almost done with another 4 masks.
Queen Of Hearts $40
Pin Oak Lord $75
Harlequin w/antique gold finish $50
These are the new masks I just finished last week. I have 2 more done that need to be photographed and a list of 5 more I want to create before week’s end. The finished ones are The Cheshire Cat (full face) and Red Maple King (half face). The list of to be made ones includes; a bear, an owl, a fox, a jester, and a dogwood lady. The animals will be 3/4 or full face and the others will be half masks.
I also have an idea for a leather witch’s hat. But that may or may not happen as I am running short on time before I head out to CMA Beltane in Texas in a week.
I’d love to hear what you think. And any suggestions or requests for other mask images are very welcome.
Wow. Stop doing something for a few months and it becomes hard to get into the habit again. I meant to pick up the daily doodle again after finishing the art for Smoky, but you know what they say about good intentions.
I guess I should not be so tough on myself. It’s not as if I haven’t been trying to put out all the fires that started while I was working so single-minded on the book art. My to-do-right-now list was several pages deep. I am finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, but it’s the train of my book signing tour coming to whisk me away from the studio for much of the rest of the spring.
I start out with a trip down to Texas, a new state as an author/illustrator. I’ve been there twice before. I have a cousin and her family living in a suburb of Houston. I thought about giving her a call and trying to meet up with her, but the logistics are just too hairy. I will be about an hour north of the city and without my own vehicle.
If you are in Texas, I’ll be at the CMA Beltane celebration from April 13-18. I will be out of the studio longer than that as it’s a couple days drive down and back. My poor husband quipped that I am abandoning him. I’m sure he’ll be fine.
In other news, a writer friend of mine put out a call to other middle grade authors. I was one of the 2 dozen writers that answered her call. We are banding together to form a web site focused on the middle grade audience. For those who are unfamiliar with that designation, it refers to books for the 9-13 old age group. Charolette’s Web is a famous book in this bracket. I had the total audacity to volunteer to be the webmeister. So in the time between now and my travels, I will be throwing together a multi-layered web site to promote the wonderful books aimed at younger readers. More info as it becomes available.
Next post will have some photos of the masks I have been feverishly working on to take with me to Texas. See you then!
