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August 2020

I was invited to be the visiting artist for a week of the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences Summer Art Camp. I worked with the campers all week long in developing drawing and comic skills, culminating in a comic book that we collaborated on together.  Here are the pages from the comic that they each took home. Thank you to the LBIF, all of the summer camp staff, and the campers for a great week!

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My digital painting for this year’s holiday card.

Made with procreate on an ipad mini.

I hope every one is building warm and happy memories this holiday season! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa!

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This is the animated movie that I made with the special needs campers of Camp Fatima of NJ at summer camp this past August. I drew 100+ panels and then printed them out for the kids to color. I scanned and assembled the colored frames into the animation using Stop Motion Studio. We then have a Movie Premier activity where the campers take a short limo ride to a red carpet experience of adoring fans before seeing this animated short and another movie we made with them during the week! It’s an amazing moment getting to hear the applause and excitement as they see themselves and their work up on the big screen!

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“Beach Day”

I finished my linocut comic at the end of August. Nine panels carved from linoleum and then printed for a one page comic. I’d learned about the wordless novels of Masereel from Jason Lutz’s “Berlin” graphic novel. in the early 1900′s, Masereel told stories using wordless wood block illustrations. The linocut workshop I took earlier this summer introduced me to the carving and printing technique so I wanted to see what it would be like to make a one page comic. It took a great amount of time and work but was interesting to learn a new technique and see the project through. 

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I took a lino/woodblock cutting and printmaking class last week at Arts Unbound in Orange NJ with instructor Krystle Lemonias. I had gotten inspired by Frans Masereel and his wordless novels from the early 1900′s and wanted to experience how he went about making his images.  It was my first time and only a two hour workshop but Krystle was great at getting me setup to carve and print within that time period. 

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