Summer is here! Or winter if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere.
What are you working on at the moment? What’s exciting you? Have you seen anything that’s really inspired you recently?
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I am working on a series of ink drawings based on relief sculpture from the Temple of the Divine Hadrian in Rome. I have two out of ten completed and once I am done I plan to make and sell them as a postcard pack.
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It’s my 3rd Patreon anniversary this month, so I’ve got some things going for my patrons and followers. I’ve never had any luck with anniversary promotions in the past, but I have picked up a patron and a few new followers and my current patrons have been more actively involved this month.
I’ve also been following @TheJinNTonic 's livestreaming about simplifying social media and been getting some good ideas that I’m starting to try out, so that’s pretty exciting.
@bronwen Those designs are fantastic! Really nice linework there. 
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Tonight I’m working on a stop-animation short story about exponential functions and bacteria.
Love the detail on your drawings @bronwen, and congrats @Lochy on your 3rd anniversary.
The weather’s been super hot in my neighborhood. Yesterday it was 97 degrees F (36 degrees C) just before the sun came up, and the temp only increased from there. 
So I’ve been inspired and distracted by plans to escape the heat and go camping somewhere cool.
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I’ve been foraging for art materials and making experimental inks with what my local woodlands have to offer (also with kitchen scraps). I’m using them to dye paper (here swatches on the wall to test lightfastness) and also directly for a series of art pieces that play off the subtle differences between the inks. If anyone’s into these things, I share a lot about my experiments and recipes with my patrons 
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@Lochy @ScienceMom Thank you very much. I am very pleased that you both enjoy them.
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aw yay, that is so exciting to hear! keep up the momentum!! happy anniversary =D
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I’m getting ready to package up rewards for a mini journal and bitty booklace Kickstarter project.
I funded the journals, necklaces, and a mini journal zine on Kickstarter, but posted all the process photos and videos on Patreon. That included videos for 10 mini journal pages I created, for books filled with artwork rather than blank pages, which went into higher value reward packages.
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Thanks for sharing all your work so far! You’re all working on so many interesting and creative things.
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I’m remixing and customizing 3D models from Thingiverse and from a company with a community program, to make missing 3D-printable pieces for the D&D adventure “The Sunless Citadel”. Here are the first few test prints:
My Patreon: http://patreon.com/dungeonprint
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Paddling madly underneath … I just gave a talk (“Artist-Entrepreneurs: Augustus Saint Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies & Maxfield Parrish”) that got lots of positive feedback, so I’m transcribing and lightly editing it to self-publish as print & ebook; I’ll offer the ebook free to my Patreon subscribers. I was invited to do a guest blog post on my book Central Park: The Early Years, so I’m trying to get that into NYC bookstores before the post appears. (Getting self-published books into Barnes & Noble isn’t easy.) The head of the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society is interested in promoting my 3-volume (!!) set on Hamilton, so I’m working up a 90-min. talk on the Reynolds Affair - fascinating, but lots of research to be done. And I am always aware that I promised my subscribers a book on innovators in painting … I may have time to breath again by September.
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I’m currently really excited since I’m working on a motion capture setup and my first VR game. Both things I’ve wanted to do since I was a little kid so it’s great to finally be able to do them like I always dreamed to.
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My art sweepstakes went well this month. I didn’t break the bank with new patrons, but I did get 2 new ones and I had been otherwise flatlining for a while now. I also got several new followers and people seem to be interacting much more as a result.
My next event type thing is World Art Drop Day in September. In the past I’ve dropped postcards in random nearby towns, but this year I’m going to be a little more targeted and drop them in both of the Dallas and Fort Worth art districts while posting hints to their locations on Instagram. One of my patrons named herself my Street Team Captain (with no argument from me!) and I’m going to be sending her some art packets to drop in the art district of her town. We’ve got some other people who said they also want to help (Street Team Assemble!) in various cities in the US and one in Auckland, New Zealand. It’s kind of a costly little promotion by expanding in this way, but it’s always been fun for me and should be even more fun with friends helping. So next month will be preparing and mailing packets.
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Angela, are you in DFW?
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An hour out. I’m in Canton.
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Euless here.
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Hi all, I’m now working on the script and documentation of a very exciting project: a graphic novel based on the real story of my grandfather between 1936 and 1946 under five flags, written by himself almost 70 ago. He fought all the Spanish Civil War before he became a refugee in France, worked for them, enlisted the British Expeditionary Force, survived the battle of Dunkirk, was caught by the nazis, worked as a slave for them, survived a mustard gas wound, escaped to Spain, was condemned to forced labour again, and then… hey! wait for me to draw it!
Even better: become a patron and read it weekly much before it will be published!!
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Just finished up a successful Art Drop Day. One of my patrons had enjoyed watching the drops the year before and designated herself my Street Team Captain and recruited several other people across the US to help spread my art this year, along with another patron in New Zealand. I managed to get a new patron from it (and not from one of my own drops in Texas), so I consider it a win. 
This month I’m going to get caught up on my to do list and get some sketches in for Sketchtember, which will be then ready to go for Inktober.
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That sounds amazing, Pau! Totally up my street, I’m sold 
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