Inktober Day 2 - Kumanaka /… View More

I made a watercolor poster for our (someday hopefully forthcoming) novel The Butterfly Koi, original size 18x24. Large areas of flat black are perhaps not best suited to watercolor, but enough layers of the relatively opaque Kuretake Gansai Tambi made it… View More

  Panel 1: (drawing of cat) Once upon a time there was a cat who liked to nom. Panel 2: (drawing of pen end) Especially things that look like bugs moving around in the air. Panel 3: (random scribbles)… View More

This upcoming year will be my sixth year with a Hobonichi Techo, an exciting milestone. While I don't write every day, there is such enjoyment in looking back and seeing the joys, small and large, over the years. This year has been more difficult than usual with the worries of COVID around the world, the disrupting being able to see friends and families, as well as blocking much of my planned professional and academic work that relies… View More

For my mom, who always sees the first… View More