new beginnings

You are someone special.

Today's entry will be the last one on this blog, friends.  This is not because I am packing it in, but because I have a shiny NEW blog:  http://littlechemistry.tumblr.com/ 

I will be posting every Monday morning (at least), and I hope you will follow me in my new location!  Cheers, Margaret. 

new year

An approximation of Edgar and Tony on the couch at Indianola.

the sea horse

reapers and vikings and bears

While drawing this, I realized more precisely why nobody likes clowns: they look like Death.

dusk is when the ghosts come out

I have decided that I don't want to reveal too much of what is in the forthcoming zine (people like surprises, right?), so I will be posting a few more previews, but not every week.  Instead, here is a little piece that I drew yesterday in my sketchbook.

I was thinking I could do a children's book around this drawing, with the same title as this post.

zine preview #3

Another panel from the short story "My Friend Steve."

I know, I was going to be putting one of these up every week, but I had some important work to do, so posting previews got put on the back burner for a while.  However, I have continued to work on the zine, and here is another little piece of it.

zine preview #2

from the story "My Friend Steve"

I have decided that between now and the publication of my comic zine, I will attempt to post a preview panel every week.  Here is the first one.  You may recall that I already posted some bits and pieces from this work-in-progress earlier, hence the number 2 in the post title.

people of the University District

At some point I began making quick sketches of random people I saw on the street or in other public places.  As most of these were drawn during my lunch or other breaks, most of the people were seen in the U District, where I work. 

the good little witch

long way up

From about a month ago.  If you look carefully, you can see the ghost images of figures from the drawing on the other side of the page.

zine preview

 

 

 Here are a few bits and pieces from a comic zine I plan to finish this summer.  It will include some short stories and some single-page pieces.

hot stuff

Inspired by a book of movie monsters I checked out from the library, and my own book of anatomy for artists. 

some saints

I drew this mostly during lunch at work today.

dusk

ink and colored pencil on paper

animals and people

the Horse Bride

bears and peeps

behind the walls

I did this one a little while ago.  One day at work, I found a piece of cardboard with four holes in it, so I decided to trace the holes onto a page of my sketchbook and make a drawing around them.

As I realize that many people have a tendency to take things very literally, I will say that this drawing is not at all intended to be interpreted in a literal way.

the headless horsebaby

Pencil and colored pencil.  Washington Irving is rolling over in his grave.

horse portraits

Ladybird and Sweet Pea, ink and watercolor pencil on paper.

last gasp of autumn

hibernation

turning of seasons

Some recent pencil drawings from my little Claire Fontaine sketchbook.

giant eyeballs

Though I'm not in the habit of doing parodies, the other day I saw a poster from this movie and had the urge to redraw the characters like figures in one of those 1970s big-eye paintings.  The first person to correctly identify the movie wins a prize.  I haven't decided what the prize is yet.  UPDATE: ID has been made!