jim doran

1. I am recovering nicely from Lyme disease - my fatigue is improving. I am so grateful.

2. I returned to my beloved school last week. I’m definitely on the mend.

3. I’m also deliriously happy about the fact that friends gave us a POOL this weekend. A POOL!

4. I had crawfish for the first time (and it’s weird that it’s taken me this long to eat them)

5. I cleaned up my old family kitchen table and put it in the back corner of the barn. It makes a fabulous drawing table.

6. I had a fine time with some drawings. This is for the sketchbook swap:

7. This is sketch of an idea I have, on 8″ X 2.5′ paper (pen, ink):

8. There’s more on flickr.

And summer is just getting under way! Completely awesome.

Here’s a couple of new things. The cowgirl is from my sketchbook exchange program sketchbook. The other is from the “Seafood” series.

Seafood © 2008 Pen & ink, click for large size

Even Cowgirls Get Chased by Skeletons © 2008 click for large size

One single line. Get it???

Happy Illustration Friday!

Thanks to Mary Stebbins Taitt and Hannah Sheffield, I’ve decided to start a sketchbook swap.

Here’s the skinny. We’ll use flickr to post things and communicate with each other.  It’s free, and more than enough (I mentioned setting up a blog before, but I’m really in love with flickr at the moment).

1. Pick up a new sketchbook (Moleskine is fine, but not a required), no less than 100 pages and easy to mail.
2. Write your name and prefered mailing address in the cover, draw something and mail it to the first person on your list.
3. When you get the next book, you will have three weeks to fill seven pages.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 until your book returns to you

If you are interested in participating, please send me your mailing address with this form.  I will finalize the mailing list and we can get drawing!

If you have a flickr account, please join the Sketchbook Exchange Program group.

Thanks!