· Thursday February 4th 2010 ·

Chasing the elusive Sandman

The past month, I’ve slept an average of three hours a night, and have worked an average of 90 hours a week.

My Valentine cards took more time to pro­duce & pre­pare than I’d expected, although I’ve heard so much very encour­aging feed­back that’s it’s been quite delightful, espe­cially as it’s my first-ever foray into making & selling my own work. (If you’re inter­ested in a card, they’re avail­able on Etsy, or in Hal­ifax at Duly Noted Sta­tionary on Quin­pool and Love, Me Boutique on Birm­ingham. I’ll also be selling them in person this weekend at the Har­bourside Market in Dartmouth.)

I’ve been also working on a whole boat­load of pro­jects, in between all the inking and painting and pan­icking. I’ve got a few web­sites in the works, a logo, and a printed booklet with a short turn­around time, along with all the usual Wicker Emporium work. I’ve been meeting with all sorts of people to dis­cuss new pro­jects, and am working on fin­ishing up some pro­jects that have been drag­ging their heels for too long.

Out­side of that, I just took my first screen printing class last night, and it was rather delightful. Given that my print work is all digital offset printing, I’ve never had an oppor­tunity to apply any of delightful things I learned in school, like trap­ping and regis­tra­tion and colour plates, all of which now I have a prac­tical use for. I’m get­ting more and more excited about doing more work by hand, and am hoping the print pro­cess will lead to all sorts of exciting new devel­op­ments and discoveries.

In short, while sleep would be nice, I’m happy to be mad-busy and thrilled about my work again.

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