Hello friends,

I hope you had an excellent pride month. I went to my local pride fest with a friend, dressed like a punk, and suffered only minimal sunburn.

I'm taking this week as PTO to catch up on some art, and also because my employer has implemented a new use it or lose it type policy, so I might as well.
Somehow, instead of doing the cleaning I was supposed to do, I ended up moving furniture. I uncovered three fairly large dead spiders and accidentally smashed a glass tabletop. (I trashed the big pieces, but I've saved some smaller evenly shaped plates to sand down and use as an art material. Maybe I can mount sculptures on them or something.) It is abundantly clear that as a 100lb adult, nothing is designed for my use. I had to use a weight bar and a kettle bell as a lever to move some equipment around. I maybe gouged the floor a little bit, but ehh, that's the cost of being a weenie. Whichever engineer designed this item put it within a reasonable weight limit for normal people to operate.

I'll be riding my pony in the mornings and working on art in the evenings. I'll be doing mainly non-digital work, so we'll see if I can figure out how to stream on Twitch.


Bond Dogs - digital painting. It's about halfway done. Hoping to finish it and order a large print in time for AWU

Crow Plushies - made from old socks. Metallic eyes. Should only take a few hours. All supplies acquired.

Pony Dolls - I got the mold maker and the sculpley yesterday. I'm going to cast the feet and ears, and a default head for premade dolls, but in the future I'll continue to sculpt individualized heads for custom dolls. I want to do one for my little pony and I might as well do the trainer's birthday gift due in August too.

Fursuit Repairs - Tica's sloth head and Pocker's pine marten have both come back to me for refurb and sale. I'll also be doing some repairs to my own suit, including new paws, resetting the jaws, and trying to patch the cracked base back together and finally doing the fluffy neck piece. I hope to be able to wear it at AWU, but it's lower priority than any of the other projects.


I'm getting back into art this year. After taking two years off and not actually using the extra time to produce personal work, I don't know that it's a good strategy. I did learn a lot, but instead of picking up anything productive I just sat around and fixated on weird research holes. New price list has been up for a while and new projects are coming up!

Hope to see you around!

Update:

So.... trying to renew my vehicle registration has taken up three full days and will stretch into next week, possibly longer. Silly me, thinking there would be time for art.