Kelen Woodblock Print wins Purchase Award

Yes, it's official.
YAY for me and my sharp little knives!

Proof prints

Finally proofing this one.

Testing out some papers.

A larger Kitakata from Hiromi is giving me the best print.

Paper is a little thinner than the Kitakata of the smaller size that I expected to be printing upon,

but the image kept growing 

and now I"m needing to find another paper 

that works for the kind of cutting I do.

Rubbings from the Betty Blocks

These are only rubbings of what some are calling 

the Betty Blocks.

Five are completed,

so, the official printing is in the near future!

Christmas Story

Oh, dear! It is Christmas Eve!
I've done NOTHING but draw for money$, which is good...
BUT, also good
was bringing the Rooster back from a hopeful adaption,
thinking he would have a better life elsewhere.

A high end coop with gorgeous chickens didn't interest him.
Nor did the company of alpacas at the far end of the field.

Two weeks...he made no friends,
refused to roost in the coop or trees.
Sooner or later he'd be eaten by coyotes who would find him sleeping alone in the fields.

I slipped his harness on, and we got into the car.

He let me know he was happy to be under my arm as we drove home...
he carefully preened the hair that stuck out my hat.

We'll share a pomegranate for Christmas.