As taken from This is Star:

If the Big Word Project is just a clever way for two incredibly smart dudes to make a ton of money, then I wouldn’t be the first to say it’s working.
It reminds me of the genius behind the Millior Dollar Homepage, except that with so many words in the english language, these guys stand to make a whole lot more money.

From their site:

The Big Word Project has been set up by Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe, two Masters students from Northern Ireland, who are exploring what different words mean to different people. The project allows you to purchase a word from our list to represent your site. Your site will then represent this word in our list and when people click on it, they will be taken to your site. The project is aimed at changing definitions and creating a new tapestry of words, meaning altogether different things.

I just bought Carmine for CarmineMag.com!

I am so sorry for the lack of art updates here to wheelhopcity! I’ve been quite busy with school and with my pet project (slash future side job) Addmyartjournal on livejournal. It’s a community all about promoting artists, which I love! I’ve been interviewing a TON of artists in the last couple of months which has been really exciting.
I’ve also been doing a lot of school work (BOR-ing! not really).
Other than that I’ve dyed my hair pink. New favorite hair color EVER. I absolutely love it.

I promise I will start working on some art again soon.

For now I leave you with some links to awesome artists:
Serpenthes
Katie West
Mae Jane
Brian Ewing
Rosemary Travale
Melissa Haslam
Leanna Wright

For the past month or so I have been posting interviews and features on other artists at the livejournal community Addmyartjournal (which is run by a friend of mine). The interviews have been a blast to do and the response has been quite positive.
I just posted an interview with myself there today along with pictures of my work. You can check that out here.

This weekend is the Greasers, Ghouls & Gals show at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, California. My husband and I will be making the 6+ hour drive down there for the show early Saturday morning. If you would like more information on the show check out Motor City Comic’s Official Blog.

I just added two new items to the Etsy Store. The first is an original watercolor painting Bug Lady Revisited, the other is a tote bag that I’ve spent the last few years trying to convince myself to part with The Little Black Sheep. You can see pictures of these pieces behind the cut.
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Several weeks ago I came to the realization that if I was going to make paintings for an art show, drive seven hours across the state to attend said art show and expect any sort of promotion to come from this art show, I should have some form of business cards. I toyed with the idea of getting business cards made by one of the random sites online where you only have to pay shipping (and have someone else’s domain on the back of your card). I thought about designing my own cards and having them made up by a close friend of mine. I quickly realized that I don’t know anything about designing business cards and have no idea what sort of look I wanted them to have. Then I remembered MOO cards a site where you can upload your own pictures (up to 100) or your own custom done graphics and have them print out unique business cards for you.
A few days later I had all of my work scanned and cropped, I began sorting through it all to decide which pieces I wanted to have on my business cards. I uploaded about ten images to MOO’s site and began to narrow down my choices by seeing which pieces worked the best for the shape of the cards. After cropping, choosing one of their pre-made logos for the back and adding all of my contact information I sent the $20.00 to them and began waiting for them to arrive.
They took about ten days to travel from London to Northern California, which was on the outside edge of their estimated time (a friend of mine waited several weeks for hers to arrive). They came in a padded, recycled plastic envelope. The cards come in their own white, hard plastic box (also made from recycled materials, they try very hard to use only recycled materials).
The cards are smaller than I thought they would be, I knew going in to this that they would be smaller and would be shaped differently from normal business cards. I must say that they quality is fabulous, as was the printing and lettering. For such a tiny card, you can still read the lettering on the back (at least I can). Also in the envelope was a sample version of their custom sticker books. I am so looking forward to slapping these tiny little stickers on things. I will definitely be buying some custom stickers in the future.
Overall, I am very happy and looking forward to passing these suckers out like there is no tomorrow. I can’t wait to toss these in with artwork I sell.
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I am currently working on revisiting my Bug Lady drawing. I always wanted to expand on her, and now I am getting the chance. I’ll be sure to share her with you once I decide that she is finished.

I also started another blog to share my random musings with the world. Because I can. I will also be reposting the interviews and features I have been doing with other artists from the Livejournal community AddMyArtJournal on that blog in the near future. There are too many amazing artists that need to be seen by the world, and I want to do my part to share them with you all. In the meantime you can check out my new blog at pinkdeviant.blogspot.com.