A Blog in two parts: PART 1"Kittypuss" for my Jenny

SO Kittypuss is done.
This is mine and my hubby's favorite painting this year(so far). And I'm not even going to keep it. This is a gift to my best friend Jenny for her birthday. So....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY my friend!!! Here is your gift... dissected!
First i was just a scribble in a notebook that
turn to a sketch on canvas...
then the paint..
.And now all done:

Loves ya Jenny!

Spring has sprung and works getting done

ugh! Where to start. I've been busy like always. I'm looking forward to the day when I can just consecrate on art, more and more these days. The restaurant has been a very busy and stressful place lately. Painful too, since I messed my back up, but that seems to be getting better. I like cooking and I'm good at it, but it wares on me. I'd much rather be painting, it makes me much happier. Speaking of paintings! I'm nearly done with Kittypuss. I think this is my fav so far this year. I've been taking pictures at each stage of the painting and will post a little "from sketch to finished piece" thing when I'm done.

Comic Update: Trees and Hills are taking orders for their latest anthology PLAY. I'm thrilled. This is the first time I'll have had anything published! The BagLady written by Jason Knopp is now finished. Its only a two pager, but I'm satisfied with it. Next up is my yet untitled submission for The Brattleboro Comix Labs first publication The B-Files.
And just for fun Pez-a-saorus' first comic:

Pez is such a great kitty and quite a character to live with.

I don't know why she was rubbing on my desk, mayhap she was happy that I was drawing a comic about her...

littleINK is coming along slowly but surely. I have a woman who works with micro-business helping me write my business plan. Its a pain but a necessary evil if people are ever going to give me money to get this thing off the ground.

The weather the past week has been beautiful! The leafs are budding , flowers are out! I love it! Its been so nice to have all the windows open and let the stale winter air out of the apartment. Also did a little BBQn' NomNOMNOm!!!!

Lions and Tigers and Squirrels! Oh my!

Its been a nice casual work day for me today. I really enjoy having time to myself to work at my own pace thou I do keep having to remind myself that I am getting things done and I don't have to work at full speed all the time. Which is why I rather enjoy rainy days. I can work on my art all day and not feel bad for not going out side.

I nerely finished two paintings today, one watercolour, one acrylic. The acrylic is a "Thank you for taking such good care of my kitties" gift.

The watercolour I will finish tomorrow once the paper is completely dry. Also I've been working on some long put off writing projects, namely Graveyard Squirrels, which attempts to be a dark children's book.

Tomorrow i submit my paper work to become an LLC. I'm very exsided, soon i will be the owner of my own bussness, a company of one.

Gallary walk

Tonite is Gallery walk here in old B-town. Which means a busy nite at the restaurant. Speaking of busy that's what I've been lately. Busy, busy, busy!

I finally finished the "Werewolf's Calamari Nite" painting, love it! I really need to find a place to have good quality prints made so others might enjoy the Werewolf too.I also finished "Balance" a mini comic I did for the latest Trees and Hills antholigy Play. This will me my first published comic!

..... And just a little heads up... I'm starting my own screen-printing business called littleINK. so soon you'll able to perches your very own Neronski original tees. I'll keep ya all updated as the process goes along. So far it's lots of numbers and paper work. I will hopefully have it all up and running by June.
anyhoo gots work to do!

Drawing on the B-side

The little house-sitting adventure is nearly at its end. Thank god! It's quit odd living in someone else home, seeing how they live without them being there. I've come to realized over these past weeks that I no longer want to live in the woods. I like not having to structure my day around a "trip in to town". I allso really, really miss my cats.


So monday we had our fourth comicbook lab meeting(we're still working on a name for our group, I kinda like The B-side Comics Lab). It was a good meeting, we did a sort of show and tell with what we are all working on and got some constructive feed back. P3 went over very well, people seemed to get what was going on even with out the lettering done. We also talked about the publication our group wants to put out and set a deadline for submissions. The publication will be called The B-files and will be a compilation of mini-comics all set in Brattleboro and the surrounding area, and the deadline for submissions is May 1st. I love our little comic group, its great to get together with fellow artist and talk shop, help each other problem solve, and have son one other then your self monitoring your progress. Its also just good to have a time each month just purely dedicated to our projects. Speaking of projects, I'm 6 pages into the pencils for P3. I think that's pretty good.

well back to work... :)

Housesitting

Its the beginning of a new year, hell a new decade. There is so much personally and professionally that i hope to accomplish. Currently I'm house-sitting for my boss, who is in Costa Rica. He has a lovely home, but its in the middle of nowhere. This comes at a good time since the lead paint is being removed from our apartment and we can't be there. I just hope they finish before he gets back from vacation, if not i guess we'll have to couch surf for a while.

All this time way from my home (and kitties! I miss them so!) and with out the distraction of any of my other projects is allowing me to concentrate on Project3. So far the rough draft is pages away from being done and I have 3 pages of pencils completed. Jason and I really need to come up with a title for it, Project3 is fine for a working title, but it will not work for the actual title. He is looking into publishing cost and whatnot so I can focus on getting the first issue completed soon. I really hope to have this published by summer time.
Well on that note I should get to work.

oh yeah! I made myself an Etsy store. I only have 3 items for sale at the moment, but will post a bunch more in Febuary when I return home. Check it out at www.neronski.etsy.com it takes a few minutes to sign up for an account but it is worth it and its free!

coffee with the little neighbors

Having a bit of breakfast with the little neighbors(squirrels that live in our roof). They're nomming on stale crackers while I have my coffee. Pez is a bit upset that I won't let her on the table, she wants to get at them so badly.

Its a beautiful fall day and hopefully I won't spend all of it in side. I have the next 3 days off from the restaurant. I need it, I burned the palm of my hand the pad of my thumb and my eyelid in the past 3days! The eyelids a weird place to get burned, I know. Which makes me think I offended some kitchen gremlin or some thing. The eye?! Really?! You've no idea how much that sucks, it is such a strange sensation to ice your eye.

Ill be attending my first comic book jam this evening. I'm exsided and a little nervous. I'm just starting out in this field and have nothing published or even finished for that matter. but I do think its important to make some connections in the art community here in town. It'll give me a good opportunity to sit down with James and finish our discussion on screen printing. And I enjoy talking with other artist. Sometimes I feel alone, I think its due to the isolating work of an artist. Hours and hours in the studio.... Anyhoo speaking of work there's a painting in need of finishing.