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Monsterpede: Finished pages 01 – 04

FOUR PAGES ARE FINISHED! Ish. Poor Monsterpede. For awhile I locked it in the Harry Potter cupboard with my paints, but it’s now out on the table again. The above image is a watercolor sky with touches of marker on the edges, especially in the red by the water. All the mountains, water, and city [...]

Monsterpede: Making pages 02-03

Markers are my favorite medium, as you probably noticed by now. The other media live in the Harry Potter cupboard and are only given scraps to work on. Today, however, I let the water colors out because I needed to color in a sky, and not only do markers tend to leave too many lines [...]

Oops! Sinking Among Lilies

OOPS! I already announced this on Twitter, but I forgot to blog about it: my story, “Sinking Among Lilies,” is free online in Issue #92 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A mercenary/bookseller arrives in a small coastal village that’s being threatened by “anathema,” but the locals are mysteriously uninterested in her aid… (continue reading in a [...]

“My Dignity in Scars” is free online at Strange Horizons

Since I was traveling all day on Monday, I forgot I didn’t make a real post! “My Dignity in Scars” is online for free at Strange Horizons. I am never the first to know the demons have returned. This time, I am at Ukaya’s house, trimming the hooves of her goats, because her joints are [...]

Morning View

Don’t believe me? Let’s zoom in:

WIP: Spooktopus snuggling a skull

Spooktopus is my new name for every time I draw an octopus with glowing eyes. There are more (and embiggened) shots of the spooktopus after the jump:

Lake-less Fragrance Lake photos

Just a few photos from a mini-hike today with my writing group’s newest member, Rachel: We found another moss face, too. On the one hand, some part of me is irritated at someone ruining what would normally be something scenic for other hikers to enjoy. On the other hand, and probably my feet too, I’m [...]