A quick one from the sketchbook, hope you have a great weekend!

Tonight I’m sipping on flavored coffee and filling my sketchbook with a new project.

The day after Christmas I learned that I have had mono for the past week or so, which is giving me good motivation to take some slow, quiet days to recover. Today my major excursion was getting to the post office to mail out all my recent orders, so Etsy friends- please watch your mailboxes, goodies on the way!

Right now I’m working on an illustration I’ve had in my head for a few weeks, and I’m really hoping it comes out the way I’ve been seeing it! In the meantime I wanted to memorialize my sketchbook, which I’ve filled the last pages of today. Isn’t the cover great? This summer at Foo Fest in Providence, AS220 had a screenprinting station set up, several screens inked and ready to pull. They had blank items for sale or you could print on your own possessions; I whipped out my moleskine and screened it with this lovely drawing by (coincidentally) a friend of a friend.

So, that’s the story of this sketchbook.

Not a lot of my own projects to show lately- I’ve been spending most of my time applying for jobs and working on some freelance design jobs. It’s good to be busy, though!

After spending the whole week in front of my computer, I drank up as much sun and air as I could this weekend. I biked part of the East Bay Bike Path with Nathan (as drawn above, but not while we were biking. that would be crazy. crazy dangerous.) and it was just what I needed. Lovely views of the ocean and marshes, especially heading back towards Providence at sunset. It is most definitely one of the best things in all of Rhode Island.

instead of syntax

Originally uploaded by acoate.

this is what i was giving my divided attention to in my linguistics class this morning. oops.