Long time....

Damn.
I think that's the longest stretch of not-blog-posting I've done in years.
See, my computer is in the guest room out here,
and we've had guests upon guests.
Piling up and spilling over.
Three weeks straight and counting.
So I've been doing all my computery things from my phone;
which is NOT the same thing,
and almost impossible to blog on.
But if you have Instagram, you've been seeing all kids of updates,
and even Facebook has been seeing some stuff.

But the guest room is almost empty,
and I'll be blogging it up once again.
For now, here's a progress photo of Korel's sleeve,
and a sample of my March "drawing-a-day" project,
Rot and a Ribbon.
This one is light on the "rot" aspect,
but I'm pretty sure if I got chicken fetus-juice in my bloodstream,
I'd chop my hand off.
I really am doing them every day,
but so far only for Instagram.
I can't help it, I love that thing.
Anyway.
I saw the Pacific Ocean again today,
and it was cold and rainy and grey,
and beautiful as ever.

More Peafowling

Korel came down to Grants Pass from Olympia, WA,
and we did some shading on her peacock sleeve.
We have three appointments planned in March, too,
and we're hoping to get pretty close to done with those.
We had started this back in November at Optic Nerve in PDX.
I'm super excited about it,
and thrilled she's able to travel all the way down here.
(6ish hours each way)
She read about Handsome Adam's visit,
and tried to out-awesome him by bringing us coffee and veggies and treats.

Good thing we're pros at having guests,
because Amy and Jaime arrive tonight.
They're taking the long(er) way down here,
so there's time to wash the bedsheets in between visitors,
and they get to see the sexy Oregon coastline.

Speaking of being social,
who else is on Instagram?
Come find me: @hebrank

Bird Week at Identity Tattoo

I tattooed some birds this week.
Tuesday kicked it off with Adam's dead baby bird,
and then there was one bird-ish thing a day for the rest of the week.

Stephanie came by with her 85 year old mom again,
and they both got tattooed.
Stephanie got her owl/cat/mouse scene all filled in,
but I think we're doing other projects before we do a bunch of background.






















Pamala finished off my week yesterday with another knitting animal.
This time it was a knitting catbird,
on the opposite forearm of the knitting cat.
Mulberries are fun to tattoo (and so good to eat).
I loved doing these tattoos,
so it's a shame Pamala doesn't have any more tattoo plans for the future.
If anyone knows any rad knitting librarians that want fun tattoos,
send them my way, please.






















This peacock feather also got made sometime this week.
There was another one, too,
but apparently I forgot to snap a photo?
















Now it's the weekend,
and I'm painting, making clay antlers,
doing drawing, buying old books,
cutting cardboard, and writing press releases.
Having an art show is a lot of work, it seems.
Doesn't help that I'm apparently getting sick.
Hopefully lots of new stuff to show Tuesday.
Otherwise, I'm dead.