Hey folks! Got a lot to talk about. First off, I'm gonna get some important dates out of the way here:
This weekend is the SOLD OUT Bugs in the Garden show at Night Owl Circus Arts in Johnson City! I'll be performing in a beetle dance with my class both Friday and Saturday night, and it's gonna be weird and creepy and wonderful. I'm so excited for it. This will be my first time dancing in front of an audience! That's where most of my attention is focused for the moment.
April 23rd is my next art show, the Art Struck Festival in Johnson City. It's free, and I've got some dancer friends performing there as well!
The next day, April 24th, I will be at the William King Art Lab in Abingdon as part of my friend Laura Blankenship's weekly open studio thing, LAMB and Friends. I'll be set up painting for people to watch, as well as selling my stuff. More details on that should be on the way!
April 29th is my 34th birthday. Cool. And I guess I'm hosting figure drawing the next day, April 30th. Yay!
And then May's gonna be big:
Here's what I'm REALLY working on right now. With Our Bodies will be a body positive solo art show at Salt of the Earth in Abingdon, with its opening reception set for May 6th! Summer pitched the idea of having a show there sometime last year, so we've been plotting it for a while. I haven't had any solo shows since 2018, so for me, this is a big deal. I've still got a lot of painting to do, though! I've done two completely new paintings which can currently ONLY be seen on my Patreon, plus I just revised my Pouncepunk piece for Body to fit it into this show!
The very next day, May 7th, is Free Comic Book Day! I may or may not get to set up outside of Mountain Empire Comics that day, we'll see! Fingers crossed!
Also in May will be a Pouncepunk art show that Richard and I are hard at work on. The dates for that are still a little up in the air, but I'll let you know!
Oh, and I'm going to be in another performance! May 14th is ALL the FEELS, a mental health awareness benefit show in Kingsport. I'll be doing some dancing AND some live art for this, plus I'll have some stuff in the silent auction, which is going to be pretty cool!
And jumping ahead a little bit more, I'll be at the first annual Wytheville UFO Fest on June 11th, ROB-Con returns on September 3rd and 4th, and there maaaaayyyyy be some other events that I'm waiting to hear back on, too!
Having just had a pretty good time at ETSU-Con this past weekend, I am pumped for all of these. Also wow, that's a lot, isn't it? Dang. And hey, if you can't make it to any of these, there's always my Etsy shop! I just added some new prints last month, too!
I've been working on some other things too. Much like the cover sleeve I made for my Criterion Godzilla box set last year, I made one for my Arrow Video Gamera box set last month:
I've been posting Pokemon and Digimon fanart in my Instagram just to stay active over there, along with some other things. As usual, everything I do lately gets posted to Patreon first. Sign up there to see this stuff before anyone else does!
Okay, I uh, I think that's it. Time to get back to work! Take care!