Happy Thanksgiving and some upcoming events...

I hope everyone had a restful and calm Thanksgiving and a safe Black Friday.
We've just returned from Thanksgiving Round One and are headed off to Thanksgiving Round Two tomorrow! In the meantime, I wanted to let you New Yorkers know about three upcoming events next weekend where you'll find me hauling around my 6-months-pregnant belly while attempting to look dainty and elegant.
First, on Friday night, there's the third installment of Too Art for TV. I'll have three "animal family portrait" paintings for sale. A detail from the first, tentatively titled "The Bigelows", is pictured above.
On Saturday night, for all of you music lovers, Chris and I will be playing together at one of our favorite joints, Banjo Jim's. It'll be mostly Chris, but I'll hop in on two songs, I think.
Finally, on Sunday, I'll be peddling all sorts of goodies from the shop at 3rd Ward's Handmade Holiday Craft Fair. I did this fair last year and it was a lot of fun. Come on by and bring some canned food or old clothes to donate, they'll be bringing it all to local shelters.
So there you have it! I expect this is my last big social hurrah before I hunker down for a long, pregnant winter of resting up and preparing for our girl's arrival. So come on out, I'd love to see you!

New Tees!

Today was sunny and mild, perfect for taking pics of my new long sleeve Robo Tees, modeled by Chris. I was making him laugh by imitating one of the judges from Dancing with the Stars.

Pumpkins

Yesterday Chris and I drove over to a friend's house to carve pumpkins and have a drink (chocolate soy milk for me, sangria for everyone else). After that, we drove up to a little town north of the city and went to a drive-in movie. I need to do both of these much more often.

Family Portrait

I'm supposed to be exercising right now, but wanted to post this quick. Last weekend I made a preliminary sketch for the first in a series of three paintings for an upcoming gallery show. I was working on paper for awhile but was having a lot of trouble getting into "the zone", so I switched to my Wacom tablet and found it freed me up.

Crocs!

Thanks to Sarah for pointing out this cute treasury in which we're both featured. I'm amazed to even be in a treasury these days, when I have so little time to devote to the shop. Besides still working on Turtles, I've got three paintings to complete by December 1st for a cool gallery show, and a few accordion appearances with this guy scattered over the coming months.
Oh, and I'm 5 months pregnant! The blog is always the last to know.

Robo Tags!

I have an unexpected few precious days off from my main gig these days, and am enjoying them thoroughly. As you can see, I've already been up to a little product development for Holiday 2008! It's sooo nice to be able to draw my own stuff again. Making a living as an artist is such a delicate balance for me. I need freelance work for the camaraderie and drawing practice, but after a few months, I really miss this: my dad's old drafting table, watching the Circle Line gliding by on the East River, my paints, some snacks, This American Life playing, the cats snoozing nearby. Anyway, these will be up in the shop later today. Hope you like them as much as I do!

Road Trip

Oh, it's been a long time since I visited the MamaRobot blog. I'm always over at the other blog, listing yummy new shops for y'all to find. But I've popped in to share some neat pics from the road! Chris and I recently flew out to Colorado to pick up a car, then drove it back. I will choose a road trip any day over flying, and this trip was a blast as usual. I think all of these were taken in or very near Indiana.
My August was absolutely swallowed up by freelance work! And as soon as I turned in the last design, it was road trippin' time. And now that THAT's done, I'm looking forward to having a peaceful fall spent wrapping up my main freelance gig and opening up my schedule even more so I can get back to my poor neglected shop. Poor little thing's still trucking along, but is in dire need of new products!