Peter (my nephew), Bella (my niece), and Bella’s best friend, Lucy
Note the new blue tent, the new PenPets banner, the new clear plastic card rack, the new "Welcome to Brooksville" T-shirts, and the new driftwood bookmark rack. It took eight markets to pay for all my expenditures, but it's all gravy now!
I’ve also mounted three exhibits of my work. In June I had a solo show, “Woodcut Critters,” at Mainescape, a Blue Hill garden center that also sells pet products, and now sells a full line of my PenPets greeting cards—like hotcakes, they say! At the end of June I showed seven woodcuts and pen-and-ink drawings at a group show, “Chosen Places,” at the Deer Isle Artists’ Association. Currently I have another solo show of 25 woodcuts and drawings at the Brooksville Free Public Library. Here are some shots from the opening.
Judy Madson (past President of the Library Board of Trustees) & Leslie
Leslie & Heather Tooker (current Co-President of the Library Board)
Leslie & Margie Van Dusen, Patron Saint of PenPets!
Speaking of the Brooksville Free Public Library, our Board of Trustees held its Annual Summer Book Sale on July 10th (I was in charge this year) and we made a whopping $1,700 selling used books from 9:00 AM until noon. Not bad!
I’ve also done two new PenPets commissions this summer:
Minnu & Dakota
8" X 10" pen-and-ink
2010
Jassie (short for Jasmine)
8" X 10" pen-and-ink
2010
And that’s not all! I carved a multi-color woodblock and I’m now illustrating a book, but more about these adventures later.
