Denvention 3 Mugshots

Name that face!

or the 66th World Science Fiction Convention Sketchbook.

You can find more sketches over on my website The Periphery

I listen better with a pencil in my hand, so while attending various panels, I took notes... but found my hand straying to draw the people around me. Same with hanging out in the common area or waiting for a book signing. I have no idea who most of these people are. There are a few you'll probably recognize. I hope. So I drew faces, along with various other odds and ends like ray guns and spaceships inspired by the panel presentations. This first batch is assorted folks enjoying the convention.

Weapon of choice? A Pilot Gel pen, black or blue on blank journal paper, or a fine line Sharpie.

There are several sketches begging to be made into paintings or illustrations, but those might take some time to develop. Yes, I know, file under "I Should Be Writing." and yes, I do have new poems and stories in the works, so it was not all about the art.

Multitasking... a polite term for the ADD writer/artist.

Back From WorldCon

I went, I saw, I concurred...
WorldCon was awesome.

Met a lot of wonderful people, and got inspired for writing fiction and poetry, and for creating art.

Had a great time with KC Heath, my 'tour' guide and Word By Word Writer's Society friend.

A lot of new authors to add to my TBR pile...

Note to Self: Self, do not walk all over Denver (Hotel to Convention Center, 16th Street Mall, lather, rinse, repeat several times a day) on a recently healed broke-then-operated-on-toe. Not a good plan. On the bright side, the multicolored array of bruise colors makes a great zombie palette.

Gave Eldest Son the G. Scott Heckenlively painting I bought him for house/cat/lilac bush sitting.

Fetched the dogs from the Corgi ranch and spa. They were ecstatic to see me, and now are snoozing happily at my feet. Little do they know a bath before their bedtime is in order. Rolling in horse and cow pies for a week left them a bit... odoriferous.

Hope to translate the sketches I drew at WorldCon to the computer in the next week or so, maybe color some in and post them over on my website . Not a whole lot of people pictures, a few character sketches and some scifi themed drawings -Rocketships and space monsters. :)

Any further recap will have to wait until I unpack and recover. My head is still whirling, but I'm glad I went. I need to get out of Wyoming more often, and see how the rest of the non-prairie world lives.



* Was looking forward to a nice, quiet first night home. Guess what's in town and started tonight? Yep, The Pyrotechnics Guild International Convention. Fireworks demos. Every night for a week. A loud week. Did I mention the Corgis bark at fireworks? Did I also mention I live less than 2 miles from the Events Center where it's being held in all its noisy glory?

doG help me.

A Con’ing We Will Go

I’m off to attend WorldCon in Denver with friend and author KC Heath - her to promote her upcoming book, Reins of Time, and me to tag along, gawk, and see how it’s done. The Corgis will vacation at a ritzy ranch out on the plains, get back in touch with their inner herd dog, and commune with their sister Corgi, Emmy. The cat is hiding out at Son One’s place. Last time I checked, he’d staked out a high bookshelf where he thinks he ‘blends’, and was being soundly ignored by resident cat Cthulhu. Cthulhu and Anubis. If any supernatural hijinks emanate from Wyoming, it’s not my fault…

I’ll try and update from WorldCon with authors we stalked and things we saw. If you get bored while I’m gone, I invite you to go check out my new website, coincidentally called Life On The Periphery. No, I didn’t actually title the site, “It’s All About Me” as my brother suspects… even though it really is All About Me.

The web site has everything from Art to Zoology (Corgis). Peruse, enjoy, test drive my contact page. If you have any stalker-ly requests for WorldCon or Denver, better get them to me now.

And a parting image for my brother, Anonymous. Merlin posed special for this one. Too bad my camera is slow and he moved. No, really!