Gatekeepers Post Interview

I was recently interviewed by Jeff Rivera for the Gatekeepers Post about Page by Paige! It's is a social media community that focuses on book publishing with a ton of great interviews and articles.

We talked about inspiration, writing, ebooks, and promotion. Some of which I knew what I was talking about! Click here to read the interview. And please like/tweet if you feel so inclined.

More new drawings!

I don't like how the text bubble turned out in this little comic, but otherwise it pretty much captures me lately. Freaking out and clutching my kitty Rory. (click these to see larger)


Weeping willow self portrait. I tried not to make this too indulgently sad, but hey, I have been a bit melancholy lately.


Sometimes I feel like I'm scraping the bottom of the well, I just feel tapped out emotionally. Like there's nothing left for me to give and I'm spent.

Currently Reading: Bossypants(audiobook)...by Tina Fey

New drawings!

Here's a trio of new drawings! Click to see larger.


That drawing sort of explains itself. I've been kinda down lately. Meh, summertime.


When I freak out about my life being totally unstable, like I've been doing lately, I remind myself that it's what I've decided to do with my life. I can always go back to my old life of a full time job with health insurance and a predictable schedule, but that comes with its own consequences as well.


I've been hanging out on my quiet little rooftop lately, so here's the first of what I'm sure will be a series of drawings illustrating the view.

Currently Reading: Choice Theory by William Glasser, M.D.

Red Bull Creation - Live Murals!

This weekend I led some live mural painting at the big Red Bull Creation event in McCarren Park!


I got involved with this through my favorite project-event-playmate Adam Alexsander. This was like what we did at 3rd Ward a few months ago with Red Bull, which you can see in my old blog post recap.




We had a bunch of art supplies for each side of the mural including paint, papers, hardware, twine, nails, hot glue, glitter, paint pens, scrap metal, pip cleaners, etc.


Guests of the event were welcome to walk up and contribute to the collaborative murals, which had a computer-circuit-board-technological sort of theme.



My helpers were great! There was Chris Ams...


Danger Dan...


Then Andrea Sparacio (who took all these lovely photos) and Alyson Greenfield.


And here are the finished murals! Click image to see larger.



You can see more photos from this event in Andrea's flickr set!

MONDAY! MONDAY!
My lovely mural helper Alyson Greenfield is having an ALBUM RELEASE show this Monday July 18th at Mercury Lounge! (You might remember seeing that she performed at my book launch party) Well, this is her hip hop covers album ROCK OUT WITH YOUR GLOCKENSPIEL OUT. She plays at 8:30. Here's the Facebook Event.

Book Signing at the Gulledge House

Over the holiday weekend I had a Page by Paige book signing party at my parents' house in Woodbridge, Virginia! (All the photos are on Flickr)


There were some blasts from the past! Such as color guard friends from the JMU marching band...

Fellow survivors of Osbourn Park High School.

Another former Kappa Pi (art fraternity) president.

As well as neighbors and friends of the family.

And we made some NEW friends as well.

We gave out door prizes and goody bags, and I signed books of course.


Thank you everyone for coming out! And a big-whopping-extra-super-sized thank you to my family for hosting and feeding and photographing everyone so wonderfully! (Mom and Brian made the food, Dad took the pics) THANK YOU!


Now I'm headed back to New York! In the fall when school is back in session I'll be lining up some Page by Paige events/workshops here in Virginia, so stay tuned!