UrsusArctos

Yesterday, October 21st, 2009, my mentor, professor, and dear friend M. Wayne Knight passed away from complications of pneumonia and H1N1. I can not possibly express what an important man he was to me as an individual and an artist. When I was 19, I eagerly went into his office for the first time, and told him, "I want to be an illustrator." He looked at me over his glasses and said something to the effect of, "You're going to need a lot work!". I told him I was up for it, and this was the start of our friendship. After I exhausted the graphic design courses he taught at the university, he began taking me on as a private student. Then I bec

First- thank you very much to everyone who visits this page. I just recently got my 10,000th pageview, and I really appreciate everyone who stops by. Thank you. Today has been a really hard day. My boyfriend is visiting MY parents, on a nice little vacation and I am sooo jealous. He has one more year left in college and so he is out and about enjoying the summer. I like my job but it is still painful the first time you don't have a summer to look forward to. 10 days off a year just doesn't cut it. I am hoping to take off 5 days in August... but oh, thats so far away... Today I also made my very first official student loan payment. Oh joy. I

Well, it's been exactly 12 months since I graduated from college and I am thrilled to announce that I've been published! The May edition of Birds and Blooms Magazine hit stores last week, and my blue jay illustration is in it. I guess I really can't complain about my career right now. I've been published, I work as a graphic designer for a major corporation, and I'm only 24. Sure, the pay kind of sucks, but I've been at it for less than a year! So things could be worse.