Day 4 – The Texas Twister
One thing I do not miss about Texas – having recently moved back to New Mexico where I grew up – is the annual threat of tornadoes. The tornado is like a villain from an Old West saga:Â you know it’s coming, it’s going to be devastating and your best bet is to hide no matter how brave and invulnerable you think you are. I’ve had plenty of close calls with real tornadoes (one almost took the roof off of my house) and this past year has been another test from a tornado of health problems for me. So, I think of this exercise as something of an exorcism:Â “just keep on moving and leave me alone, you’ve done enough damage already.” Sometimes all you can do is pick up the broken pieces, rebuild and move on.
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Illustrator, costume designer and makeup effects artist for films, print and television, a cartoonist, computer graphic artist, animator, storyboard artist, storyteller, teacher. Most of my influences come from having traveled the world at a young age, my love of nature, Looney Tunes cartoons, my study of art history and history in general. I have been drawing and painting as far back as I can remember and consider myself fortunate to have had so many wonderful opportunities to explore in the arts in my lifetime. As a picture book writer and illustrator and fantasy writer this challenge is a great motivator to jump start my imagination.Subscribe
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