The Birkebeiner

On a personal note I am excited about the Birkebeiner race in Hayward WI. It is a grueling 50+ Km race through hilly terrain. However, for all of you visual people I think this is too cool! Check it out, you can see the race course from a sky view. Very nice, especially if you are considering doing the race, then you can figure out where all of the food stops are, oh and big hills.

http://www.pointnorthland.com/birkiefly.html

Anyone interested?

I am squeezing in my April Blog!

Here is a current project that I thought I would share. The final product will be a magnet. I am headed to the Surtex in a few weeks and I am preparing (website, business cards, portfolio, etc) for this as well as finishing some projects before I leave.

A good day if there are cookies

This painting was accepted into a show hosted by the Minnesota Book Arts and Minnesota SCBWI. These two organizations held a contest for writers to submit poems. The five poems chosen were offered to illustrators to visually depict one or more poem. The one I chose has a melancholy theme but I feel a very strong message about perspective.

There is a reception on Friday which I will attend so I can hob nob with art directors or stand around and laugh with my fellow illustrators. You just never know what will happen!

More art!

Boy with Balloons

These are drawn with an eyedropper, dried and colored with watercolor.

Nuts?

*I purposely misspelled Fischer. "Mr. Peanut hates the Fischer Nut Company.
Mrs. Peanut understands."


I am switching gears and I am only in first gear right now. I hope to crank it up to third gear by mid Feb! I am focusing my energy on the stationery market. I feel it calling me and I am ready to jump back in but this time a little differently. I am working on a portfolio to take to the National Stationery Show http://www.nationalstationeryshow.com/ and Surtex http://www.surtex.com/

Can't wait to network and see what this market is all about from a larger sense. Of course with my business Stick Together Designs (www.sticktogetherdesigns.com) I learned a bit about manufacturing and selling. This time I am interested in licensing. I am reading the Licensing Business Handbook by Karen Raugust. It is interesting to see who makes what and how it works. I hope to be a part of the who makes what and how it works, soon.

What a spin I'm in!