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sorting the stories

For those of you who have enquired, over the next few days I will be putting together a wee site dedicated to selling my cigar-tin stories. Quite a few of the first twenty are already sold, so my first order of business is to list what's still available. Anyway, please watch this space. And Happy New Year!

{clandestine} ... concealed, secret, enigmatical, recondite, privy, mysterious, labyrinthine, veiled, hidden, inscrutable, problematical

Two journal covers, one of which is going to C, the other to my brother Kevin, who needs all the help he can get, because his mind is like a city made of fog. * * * * * The final drawing of Shaz , who seems well-suited to purple undertones. * * * * * Lazy holiday watching: The 39 Steps and The Dark Knight . Despite how much she hated it (she's more of a Midsomer Murders person ... *yawn*), C still found watching Heath Ledger very sad.

voices {for IF}

her last one, the one in A minor , mixed media on canvas, 8x8 inches. * * * * * Our mini-holiday in Toronto, from top: faux angry; not angry but possibly very gassy (stay back); quite possibly very angry ... as all short people are from time to time (and more often than not).

I am ...

... still processing my late-night event at the studios on Friday. I say my event because -- for whatever reasons -- it was only my guests who showed up ... and even then it was pretty hit-and-miss. A big thanks to the people who did brave the winter night and come by ... it was great to see you (and thank you, as well, to my studio-mates who opened their studios up to all the little tours I did). And speaking of seeing, it was fantastic to finally lay eyes on Krista (below), just to verify that this digital sprite was real (her own always-generous thoughts on the evening are here ). * * * * * ... watching JCVD , a meta film in which Jean-Claude Van Damme plays himself ... or at least a more hopeless and damned version of himself, made all the more painful by his self-awareness, how he can feel the currents taking him down. And then he gets caught up in the robbery of a post office. * * * * * ... watching the finale of Survivor: Gabon . A mediocre season with a mediocre winn

for illo friday ... {rambunctious}

Cigar-tin story #16. I put this one at the top because she seemed the most rambunctious. As for myself, I hardly know what the word means anymore. The last few weeks I've run myself ragged trying to get ready for a studio event and the results have been mixed -- people are busy, sick or distracted. I promise to never, ever do this again. At this point I'm just looking forward to being done, and spending December in disconnected indulgence. Cigar-tin story #20. Cigar-tin story #19. Cigar-tin story #18. Cigar-tin story #17. Cigar-tin story #15. Cigar-tin story #14. Cigar-tin story #13. Cigar-tin story #12. Cigar-tin story #11.

for illustration friday ... {similar}

Cigar-tin story #10 (A Primer for Calling Melissa). Two cigar tins, two paintings, two stories, two of many, all similar but different. Cigar-tin story #9 (Dead Motorcycle Cops).

christmas magi

For Christmas cards.