Hopscotch House Night #1

As the title implies this is my first night at the Hopscotch House. I am here for a week long artist residency. There are three other artists here, one working in poetry, one a singer, and one a journalist writing an oral history. I am here to begin work on a series of quilts, mini-quilts of course, that use animal archetypes to illustrate my view of feminism. Eco-feminism especially since this is what seems to inspire me the most. The point of this residency for me is to focus for an entire week on myself, my art, and my spirituality. In the hopes I can go back refreshed.

This house is amazing, it is a large farmhouse it gorgeous and out in the woods. I've seen a few deer running about, of course that isn't any big news in Kentucky but I find them to be graceful in their skiddishness. Tomorrow in the morning we are going to go on a guided tour of the trails. Hopefully I'll be up in time because I forgot to bring my phone. I also forgot to bring the cord to my camera so now pictures until I get back.

The Beginning.

I have been graduated from college for about a month now. The productivity hasn't picked up yet. I had aspirations of getting a job, making art like crazy crafting, reading and lazing outside with all my new found spare time. But what have I done? Well, not a lot. I'm still in the process of trying to find that perfect part time job that I won't hate too much and that won't leave me drained so I'll still have time to work on art. That job is elusive in a small town though so my half-hearted search continues.

However, cool things have happened this summer too. My boyfriend got a Bamboo tablet. When he told me he was interested my first response was something along the lines of "WTF?!" I mean, he has paper he has a pencil! But then... I used the new tablet. Now it is hooked up to my computer and I have spent many hours doodling, ctrl-z'ing, and re-doodling. I haven't experimented a lot with it but it is indeed fun. And it is already right there on the computer! Convenience!
So here's a few of the basic sketches that I've whipped up on the tablet.

If I were a comic what would I look like?

My boyfriend has had this idea for a comic for quite a while and has been waiting on me to illustrate it for him and I haven't even begun that project, which I am sure is rather annoying to him. But I have done a few character sketches. 

Samuel, the main character. 

Marsella, his sister. She's in an insane asylum. 

Hopefully in the future I will have more posts with interesting comic characters and pretty pictures but that is entirely dependent on motivation which is rather dependent on my consumption of Ale-8. For you non-Kentuckians out there that is a caffeinated beverage in the ginger ale family and I do believe one of the ingredients to be creek water. Alas, I am now addicted to the strange drink because within my circle of friends it is the commune drink. Someone buys a 6-pack and everyone shares. Well that was a prime example of a tangent. And with that the first post has been completed. That only took a month.