Brent and I cleaned the studio a little today! Woo! \o/ We put the Legend of En mural above the steps leading up to the studio, and we filed a lot of last year’s artwork away so we can make room for the new stuff we make this year.
Also, I found one of the big pieces of paper that we used to brain storm the Legend of En WAAAAAAAY back when we first decided to start working on the project … it’s awesome to see the ideas we had running through our heads at the time Here’s an exerpt of the ideas we didn’t use:
Characters (good/evil/neutral)
Baron von snuggles (good)
Large-breasted Princess (evil)
Fortune-telling beluga whale (neutral)
Asthmatic Cheetah (neutral)
Settings
Cherry Forest
Gnome’s Workshop
The Sighing Forest
The Edge of the World
Magical Items
Enchanted Spoon
Octopus Skull
Golden Squid Dress
Ink of Profanity
Flying Marmalade
I dunno about you guys, but I have a hankering to draw a golden squid dress…..
After many weeks of holiday whatnots and the usual winter hibernating, some of the original SS crew decided to pop in for a Valentine’s Day visit! It was good to have Tara and Heidi around after their respective sabbaticals
First order of business: Topher had an appendicitis. Long story short, he woke Brent and I up on Friday at 6:30 in the morning with a rather severe stomach ache, we drove him to the ER and he was diagnosed and fixed all in the same day! He’ll be spending the next week taking it easy and sketching for personal projects, and he should be 95-100% within the next week or so!
Tara brought a homemade heart-shaped cake with her for Valentine’s day, and it was deeeelicious (chocolate cake with chocolate filling and vanilla frosting OM NOM) and it was consumed voraciously after a pleasant dinner at the Copper Kitchen. When we returned, we resumed with some small, awesome sketchies, and good times were had all ’round!:
Tara drew a deer on a rocket!
Heidi drew our kitty Lando!
Jackie drew some pinup sketches!
And Brent has been working diligently on a new project of his: Erratic Magazine!
All in all, an extremely fulfilling Studio Sunday!
It’s been a little quiet around these parts due to the frigid late winter weather, but the individual artists of Studio Sunday continue to work unhindered!
In addition to freelance jobs and making work for Starship Milwaukee’s 50 for $50 and under show, Josh has a solo show in the works for the Harmony Cafe in Green Bay – everybody go go Josh go! \o/
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Tonight was our first venture into the world of UStream! After many discussions (more like one brief conversation… that one time…) we decided that we should try to make a UStream broadcast to help bring more people into the collective and remove the obstacle of distance between us and… everyone else out there. It turned out pretty well for the first go-around, and we even got some folks to chat with us in the UStream chat window! Despite a few hiccups and some major lag, the broadcasting thing was an overall success, and it will continue on next week (and hopefully for many weeks to come!).
This week was pretty laid back since most folks are still out of town for Thanksgiving weekend and other such holiday what-nots, but the crowd that showed up worked on some lovely things!
We had a full house today at Studio Sunday! Tara, Heather (Chapa), Josh, Pietro, Topher, Brent and Jackie were all rockin’ the house with preliminary drawings, Christmas projects and Etsy-majigs. There’s nothing you can’t get done with Jurassic Park and Big Trouble in Little China playing in the background!
Tara, Chapa and Topher all plugging away with their respective projects!
Brent and Josh gazing thoughtfully at Velociraptors...
Tara’s been held hostage by the MAN lately (day job, ewwwww) and so hasn’t been able to make it to the last few Studio Sundays Nevertheless, she steams forward with new work and exciting news!
First up is her recent Milwaukee Gallery Day/ Night at the Caggio gallery:
New work alongside The She-Bear (below) for my show at Caggio. Some of the work I’m not entirely happy with but working on these definitely got me back into the swing of traditional media! Hurray for watercolor!!! From top to bottom: Meeting the Black Dog, White Fox Wedding, Sedna, The Nightingale, and The Golden Stag.
And also, Tara’s Yoyo necklaces have been featured in Country Living magazine! They super cute, so go get some!
My green and blue plaid yo-yo necklace has been featured in Country Living Magazine!!! It is in the November issue article called “Mad About Plaid.” It’s kinda strange opening up a magazine and seeing something that you’ve made… right there. In a magazine. So now I’m selling a whole bunch of yo-yo necklaces and spending my days creating new ones. If you’re interested, check out my Etsy store!
As a token of thanks to you and everyone else who helped make this exhibit possible, we are offering the prose portion of our story, The Legend of En, free-of-charge so you can read it at your leisure and share it with your loved ones.
Here’s an exerpt of the ideas we didn’t use:
Drawing courtesy of 
Nevertheless, she steams forward with new work and exciting news!
