New No Wasted Ink ETSY Shop launches!
As a poet, I’ve been showing my illustrated poetry here on No Wasted Ink for many years. At first, my sketches were simple blog posts to display my poetry. Later, the drawings were picked up by “Quantum Visions” as part of the annual chapbook to provide illustrations for the books.
A year later, I brought in a few of the sketches as art prints and exhibited them for the first time at Comic Con along with my artisan jewelry table. They began to sell and two years later, I began to set up a full panel of my art at Comic Con.
This year, due to the pandemic, Comic Con is At Home. The speakers are available for free via youtube and Comic Con is supporting its dealers and artists with advertising at the virtual convention.
The prints offered in my etsy shop are the same archival quality prints that I would exhibit at Comic Con each year. Each print is signed and numbered as part of a limited edition. When you purchase a print in my ETSY shop, it will be sent to you in a rigid mailer in protective cellophane.
I hope those of you who visit the Comic Con Art Show will support me and the other artists exhibiting at Comic Con this year. Find us via the #comicconathome or #comicconathomeartshow hashtags on your social media outlets. Or come to the main ComicCon sponsored tumblr homepage: https://comicconathome.tumblr.com/
In August of 2016, I attended the San Francisco Fountain Pen Show that was held at the Sofitel San Francisco Bay Hotel. One of the featured events of the convention was a Planner Meetup. Normally, my bullet journal never leaves my desk, but for this event, I packed it into my luggage and carted it off with me to the event.
There were a good number of men who attended, but most did not reveal the inside of their planners. I believe that there were daunted by the decorators in the crowd and did not wish to show off their simple task lists and notes. I had to prod a few of them to see inside their planners. They should not have been embarrassed. What I saw inside was functional and all of their journals were of fine quality leather and paper. Sometimes less is more.
My journal was the only bullet journal in the meetup, which surprised me. Everyone else used preprinted calendar style planners. My hand drawn illustrations were thumbed through by many appreciative planner nerds. I found myself answering questions about zentangles and how difficult it must be to illustrate my notebook. I assured everyone that practice is all that is needed to draw zentangles and that tutorials are all over the internet for free. This was the first time that anyone other than myself has seen my illustrated bullet journal and the response to my work was gratifying.
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