Serpentine Launching on Wednesday!

Hello, hello!

Woof. So. Been a minute. Rather than trying to fill in all the events of the past month before I let myself get to the good stuff, I'm going to skip to the end:

Serpentine, my next collaboration with poet Tara K. Shepersky and publisher Bored Wolves, is launching on Kickstarter this Wednesday! You can check out the preview page and sign up to get an email notification as soon as we launch right here.

(A rough cover design mockup ☝️)

I'm happy to report that after my last post, my watercolor process started to feel much more lively and exploratory. Honestly, most of that came down to being in Portland for a solid stretch of time, getting to catch a break from the high-pressure space of caregiving, and spending in-person time with creative friends. Always a good reminder that displeasure with my practice is almost always my body and heart telling me that they aren't getting what they need.

Here are some of the pieces I've been working on:

(Three postcard designs and a special bookmark ☝️)

I've got a few more paintings to do before I'm completely done, but it feels great to have produced some pieces I'm really proud of and learned a lot more about color and technique just in these few paintings. (That middle one even got featured on Tumblr Radar! I've been posting more there lately because it feels low stakes and goofy and Not Like Twitter or Instagram.)

A couple other things:

• There's a new prompt up for The Right Number, my tender confessional voicemail box
• I got to write an essay for my friend Sarah Gailey's newsletter, Stone Soup, all about my eleven-year queer relationship and some very delicious eggs. It's one of the scarier things I've written, vulnerability-wise, but I'm very proud of how it came out
• Yesterday was apparently the annual Day of the Seafarer, so here's a reminder that you can download this comic I made about crossing the Pacific on an oceanographic research vessel for free!

That's it for now. I'm so excited to share Serpentine with all of you later this week, but in the meantime I'm off to walk a dog (I'm housesitting) and look for hawks.

xo

L