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Harpy Halloween Storefront -- Paul's Hatworks 2012

Double Ophelia installation and Friends 2011

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Paintings & Installations 2006-2008

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Mini-Paintings 2018

Paintings 2017 -2018

Berkeley Streets Alive Utility Box 2015

Paintings 2014-15

Paintings 2010-2013

Harpy Halloween Storefront -- Paul's Hatworks 2012

Double Ophelia installation and Friends 2011

Underwater Storefront -- SFAC Art in Storefronts 2009

Paintings & Installations 2006-2008

Illustration

Folklore & Fairytales

People & Characters

Newsletter Headers

Comics & Ink

After a While, Crocodile

Turnip Inktober 2017

Turnip Chronicles Comic

Underwater Storefront -- SFAC Art in Storefronts 2009

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Excited to see that it's almost #folktaleweek again! Here's the Devil's Mirror, from the Snow Queen by H.C. Andersen that I drew last year. I love the metaphors for the the hard things in life that Andersen's tales encompass. Hoping to have time to jump in to the challenge again this year!
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From the Snow Queen, by Hans C. Andersen (the man): "The devil, in the form of an evil troll, has made a magic mirror that distorts the appearance of everything that it reflects. The magic mirror fails to reflect the good and beautiful aspects of people and things, and magnifies their bad and ugly aspects. The devil, who is headmaster at a troll school, takes the mirror and his pupils throughout the world, delighting in using it to distort everyone and everything. They attempt to carry the mirror into heaven in order to make fools of the angels and God, but the higher they lift it, the more the mirror shakes with laughter, and it slips from their grasp and falls back to earth, shattering into billions of pieces, some no larger than a grain of sand. The splinters are blown by the wind all over the Earth and get into people's hearts and eyes, freezing their hearts like blocks of ice and making their eyes like the troll-mirror itself, seeing only the bad and ugly in people and things." Eventually the splinters get to besties Kai and Gerda, turning Kai into a cruel and mean bully who no longer cares about Gerda or his grandma, which makes him susceptible to being taken by the Snow Queen, and starts Gerda's journey to rescue him.
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Eye of Protection pins are finally here! Check the link in my bio for more details and to get one of your own.
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Do you trust your intuition?✨ Mine is never wrong—I’m only led astray when I start to doubt my own senses and knowing.
I’ve had a real rough week and this has been my guiding principle.✨ I’m using our @crushillustration Monster mash-up prompts for #Crushtober this year, and I had to kick things off with this protective, warrior harpy. 🌙

Anyway Happy and Harpy Inktober to all! It’s a month for artists to draw and fail, and keep drawing, realizing that the failures don’t matter, only keeping on drawing matters! Love to all who go for it this month, and remember it’s totally ok to just do what you can. We all have things to deal with as well as drawings to make. 💜 And thank you to @jakeparker for this month!
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@alexisamannart recommends... Rootabaga Stories (by Carl Sandburg, 1922)

What it is:
A book of short interrelated short stories for children. Sandburg wanted to write “American Fairy Tales” for his three daughters and the stories are full of wonderful poetics, nonsense, and magic.

Why I like it:
I’ve loved these stories since childhood and the weird beautiful nonsense of Rootabaga Country still resonates with me today. Rootabaga Country is a land of language and myth, a magical-ish version of the American Midwest with farms, trains, corn, houses, cisterns, children, parents, the Village of Cream Puffs, the Village of Liver-and-Onions, the Shampoo River, and the Zig Zag Railroad, and the stories are told by a blind bard named the Potato Face Blind Man. Stories often just end, or have a conclusion that is just another sort of wise nonsense, rather than a typical "fairy tale" conclusion, and there are no princes and princess here but a kind of magic of everyday life, and a life imbued with magic in everyday objects and landscape.
In this particular story "Never Kick A Slipper At the Moon," shoes come to life after they pass around a secret word between them and go out dancing under the Dancing Slipper Moon, and girls are warned they can lose their shoes by kicking them at the moon, because they will get stuck on the moon. “And these are the explanations why fathers and mothers in the Rootabaga Country say to their girls growing up, “Never kick a slipper at the moon if it is the time of the Dancing Slipper Moon when the ends of the moon look like the toe and the heel of a dancer’s foot.”” I’d recommend Rootabaga Stories if you are into folk tales, word play, run on sentences, poetry, whimsical magical realism, nonsense, or fairy tales. Both kids and adults can enjoy the layers of meaning, word play, and story he creates in his simple but clever writing, the book also has beautiful line illustrations by wife and husband team Maud & Miska Petersham.
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Painting in progress! I'm really happy to be back to working on some paintings again -- it feels like coming home and I have way too many ideas at the moment. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
It has always been a bit hard for me to post "work in progress" pics that show all the ugly stages, thinking, and twists and turns behind the finished work, but it's something I want to start doing more of as a way to show more of the story behind my work and myself. So here goes -- a few "in process pics" of this hesitant woman being confronted with an offer from the other side of a portal in spacetime.
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