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Winter 2020



 Here's my current illustrated journal. It’s called Winter 2020, and that is the correct year and season. BUT most of these pages,  I am happy to say, actually illustrate Spring, Summer and Autumn! It's  probably because I have spent much of Winter 2020 in my studio,  playing with and exploring new ideas, new techniques and new subject matter on these pages. 




                                   


                            



        By the way, just for the record, as crazy and unprecedented and unplanned-for as 2020 has been, I am very thankful for this time. Here’s why:

       With my entire show schedule being upended one show after another, I have of necessity shifted the way I market and sell. I have had to push my social media presence. That, my friends, has been both a wonderful and a frightening learning curve. Additionally, I have had to dig my heels in and make my studio time priority. For me, it has been a shift from making art for shows to making art because that is my work (regardless of money or the fact that anyone will even see it). In other words, I am making art because I am an artist. Come what may.

       This digging in of the heels to make art, to be an artist, has been a huge motivating force this year. Now I admit, it took a minute to absorb the shock of all those show cancellations and all that sheltering in. I'm not gonna lie; there was definitely some floundering.  Like, what am I going to do now? I don't need  more inventory; the studio is busting at the seams with inventory! But I decided. I decided! And then got to work. 

        Now, looking back at the year and the pages of my Winter 2020 journal, I see that that decision has propelled me toward new ideas, new techniques, and new subject matter.  Grateful? Hell yeah! Excited that this is my work in Winter 2020? Double Hell yeah! 

I can hardly wait to show you what's coming up for 2021!

      In the mean time, here’s my other illustrated journals, which I started in 2018 and plan to continue for the rest of my life! It's where I play and pretty much start my day inthe studio. You can see some of the pages on my online store.




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