Astrhopi Portrait [art post]

This little colored pencil portrait of the Heliopause mascot, Astrhopi the Heliopause Pony, has been kicking around my workspace for several months. As I’ve just finished one big project (the Lucena cover) and am beginning another (Professor Odd Season Two), I took the opportunity to finish her. I am very happy, not least because this …

A Long Strange March

It snowed the weekend they closed the pool, which meant I had four days of nothing but kettlebells before I dared go out on the bike. Those four days have been the hardest so far, except maybe the ones that I was actually sick, but at the same time they were comforting. Nothing makes me …

Ceres Horse [art post]

To close out the year, the decade, and my Planet Horse series, here is Ceres, Queen of the Asteroid Belt. Since I added Pluto (and Charon) last year I felt it would be fitting to pay homage to another important celestial object—and a very important goddess. Like all my Planet Horses this piece was done …

Sol Horse [art post]

It may not seem like a picture of the Sun as a horse is a particularly seasonal thing to post at Christmastime, but if you consider that celebrations of lights and light-bringers have been observed around the winter solstice for as long as there have been solar gods and heroes to celebrate, then this is …

grimby grats – december 2019

The E-Newsletter of Goldeen Ogawa • Issue 25, December 2019 Originally posted for Patrons on December 6 on Patreon What have I done? Cleanups for “Lightning Does Strike Twice” and “Moonrise Over Hades” (Driving Arcana Wheel 3) Edits for Star Walker Cover and interior illustrations for Lucena in the House of Madrin and embellished prints What am I doing? Cleanups on …