Spring

Halloo everyone!

It is delightfully spring, and the weather is glorious in New York. All I want to do is run around outside. Alas, I spent most of the week cooped up inside with my ankle on ice. Twisted it dancing over the weekend. Sigh.

In any case, it meant that I got a bunch of painting done while at home. Finished a new spread for the book - the raw painting is done - but now it's hanging on my wall in the studio. I keep staring it... I think it needs something but haven't figured out what yet. I will post it as soon as I decide whether or not I'm going to touch it again. And so I'm still plugging along on paintings for the book, but this week I actually had a couple of potential jobs that took up most of my work time. Jobs! Exciting, I know. Nothing is certain, though. One was a bunch of preliminary sketches I submitted to be considered for a job (we shall see... fingers crossed!) and the other is a small illustration for a literary publication...

that ended up looking something like this: