Illustrations of Tina
and Mr. Bee

I have lost the thumb drive I always kept with me. It used to live in my purse and never leave my side. I put artwork on it that I was working on, and transported the files to and from any computer I used. My heart feels a bit broken because the hugging painting was on that thumb drive, and I had gotten much farther on it (I hadn’t backed up my files, stupid). I need to suck it up and start working on it again from the beginning, but it is too easy to keep moping.

I should be excited about doing more art work because I’m planning to take Stephen Silver’s nine week, one-on-one, Character Design course this fall. I’ve only heard wonderful things about the course, and I plan on my skills improving greatly.

Both of the bonsai are dead. It’s only a little sad, because my other plants are trying hard to keep my spirits up.

The best contender is Grape Tom, he is growing very tall and we have 11 grape tomatoes ripening with more on the way. I got some catnip that will hopefully grow well because Mojie loves it. Some of the purple basil seeds grew, I have 3 small ones now, I think the other seeds I planted either too deep, or they got washed out in the rain. The Asian Jasmine is still not growing or spreading much, and my real Jasmine stopped flowering save for 1 or 2 blooms every other day. It must be the triple digit heat, hopefully everyone will do better once it cools down (and rains) in Austin.

San Francisco got my creativity flowing and drawing a lot. Be sure to visit my illustration portfolio and view the all new Sketches gallery.