Didn’t want to lose them! So so great to have a job that allows me to have so much fun and call it work occasionally. Hurray!

And, why is it that just about any illo looks better on darker paper? A reaction of some sort between light waves in an epic battle for ascendancy or simply the result of accidentally hitting on a long-forgotten formula in a book of alchemy disguised as a joke book for kids?  Maybe it’s just how you hold your head while scratching with the Prismacolors. The best pencil colors!

A fun afternoon with a few great people. Three more converts to block printing. I was amazed at how they took to it, but the whole process is sort of exciting on a small scale. 

(fiddlehead patterns by L.Hunter, above)

(spiral patterns by P. Robbins, above)

(fried egg bookmarks by J.M. Figuera)

We are built to make things.

More than that, we each have the tools to consider problems and solve them. I don’t care if the problem is a blank page in a sketchbook, a tricky ledger sheet, a line of uncooperative code or a human rescources maelstrom. Creativity is in every human’s tool box because it’s how we solve problems. 

I don’t want to hear anyone say that they ‘aren’t creative’ or they ‘don’t have a creative bone in their body,' because that would be a lie. 

And we don’t like liars, do we?