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Original art by Spooks (Josh McMahon)

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Handouts for a workshop in the style of @thenearsightedmonkey.

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Story by my four-year-old student, art by me.

L: “Once upon a time, there was an egg. It was a person that was an egg. And a dinosaur ate the egg. The dinosaur's mom told him to eat all the eggs, so he did, and all the eggs were inside his whole body. But it was too many, so he threw them up. One time I threw up in my car.”

Me: “Did you feel better afterward?”

L: “No! I laid on the ground.”

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Sketch of Grandma Jean

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Worry, wax body casting and Irish marble, 2017.

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Cortisol, oil on canvas, 2017.

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Simone in the Hollow, 2017.

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Self-portrait with aster flowers, 2018.

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1/29/18 - 1/31/18 of #witchaday

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1/22/18 - 1/28/18 of #witchaday

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1/15/2018 - 1/21/2018 of #witchaday

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1/1/2018 - 1/7/2018 of #witchaday

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Drew my Hogwarts witchsona for Inktober because gosh sometimes if you wanna get away from the world you have to draw yourself in another one.

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When my mom was little, she drew on the walls. Sometime between yelling at her and cleaning it up, my grandmother transferred the drawing onto tracing paper. She kept it in a file for nearly twenty years, then adapted my mom’s wall sketch into needlepoint. It’s nuts, right? The saturated colors, the textures, the bizarre figures rendered so lovingly - it’s the kind of stuff I look to make. Side note: my mom is one of NINE kids but in making the image she wanted to live in, she goes, “BYE Y’ALL, IT’S JUST ME AND MOM AND DAD NOW, HAHAHAHA.”

Smash cut to me, 2012, having a nervous breakdown. My mom drove 215 miles to care for me while I struggled to finish up the semester. While I studied Spanish, I asked her to draw me something. It was this sweet little sketch, and I kept it ever since.

I’m a sucker for parallels in fiction, so I thought I might as well make my own.

Reaching back, five years later, and remaking my mom’s beautiful, beautiful, beautiful sketch that helped keep me alive until now. Thanks, Mom. Thanks, Grandma. Thank you to everybody who’s ever been kind to me. May your doodles be reborn in yarn and floss.

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A comic about thinking you’re over your shit.

Spoiler alert, you never are, and that’s okay.

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Mother Earth and the Root Children

Colored pencil and ink

18x24

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Elowen’s Cottage

Colored pencil and oil pastel, 18x24.