March Magics Read-aloud – call for suggestions!

As I mentioned on Twitter last week, I’m going to be doing something a little special this year for #MarchMagics/#DWJMarch. In an effort not only to celebrate the work of Diana Wynne Jones but to perhaps introduce her to people who might not have had the joy of reading her—yet—for every Sunday in March I’ll …

Terrestrial Planet Horses [art post]

MERCURY • colored pencil, ink and paint pen • 9”x12” bristol board Prints and merch available here! Returning to my Planet Horse series, meet the first of the terrestrial planet horses: Mercury! Here represented by an Icelandic Horse performing its distinctive gait, I wanted to evoke the fleet-footedness of both the planet (Mercury has the …

AnthroCon 2015

I am currently installed at Mary Capaldi’s house, enjoying an extended vacation after the amazing hecticality that was AnthroCon. It is very wet and green and there are fireflies. It is nice. This AnthroCon was both the shortest and longest weekend of my life. It was short in that things flew by so quickly, but …

Nebula [art post]

NEBULA • Personal work • 2015 • 11”x14” mixed media Print available! Revisiting my Planet Horse series (now perhaps more accurately called the Celestial Horses), this is the latest and largest edition: Nebula. Unlike the others, which were all modeled off existing horse breeds, Nebula sprung right out of my imagination—but she looks like some …

Ouranos 2015 [art post]

OURANOS 2015 • personal work Mixed media: acrylic ink, colored pencil and metallic pen on 9”x12” bristol board. Print available! Progress pics here! This is a redone version of the original Ouranos of my Planet Horse series from 2013. In this incarnation, Ouranos—third of the gas giants and first of the ice giants—is modeled off …

Courage to be Safe

One of the things I was taught when I attended a first aid class was to make sure, before I attempted to help anyone, that it was safe for me to do so. To make sure that I was not putting myself in danger by helping a person in distress—whether from an environmental factor like …

Exit Emmy

I had to put my horse down yesterday. It has been a hard couple of weeks, and I am a cauldron of conflicting emotions right now. My horse—her name is Emmy—has been a huge part of my life for almost twenty years. I’ve had her since she was six and I was eleven, and in …