Ellen Million: Artist, Writer, Project Enabler, Creative Force of Nature. And, Mom.

Projects:

Currently in crowdfunding: Sketch Tarot! - Sponsor a card or pre-order a deck at a steep discount today!
Coloring Books - Highly detailed coloring books for grown-ups. (By many artists!)
Sketch Fest - a monthly prompted 48-hour creative jam for artists around the world.
Portrait Adoption - adopt a pre-finished character portrait that will be exclusively yours! (By many artists!)
Ellen's Escape - my personal webpage and an archive of pretty much my entire artistic journey.
Torn World - a shared science-fantasy world.
Etsy - digital stamps (digi stamps) and coloring books.
Patreon - support Ellen and get monthly surprise goodies!

Other links of possible interest:

2015 goals
2014 goals review
Chopping Block of 2010 - an interesting snapshot at all of my projects of that time, including several that did not survive the cull.

Ellen elsewhere:

Ellen Million Graphics at Facebook
Ellen Million, Artistrix at Facebook
Sketch Fest at Facebook
Torn World at Facebook
Ellen Million at Facebook - mostly a feed of this journal.
@ellenmillion at Twitter - almost entirely a feed of this journal. (Has been hijacked by hackers. See my business twitter: @ellen_million)
@torn_world at Twitter - updates for Torn World
ellenmillion at Deviantart - very, very rarely updated
Elfwood gallery - oldest gallery of my work (aside from my personal site, above).

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It was a weekend of beds! We bought Guppy a bed frame, finally. She outgrew her toddler bed a while ago, and we had a mattress on the floor for her, but this is much, much better.

Not stopping there, we dismantled my weird-sized bed and turned it into a twin XL, which frees up the bedroom space ENORMOUSLY, and makes the room so much more gorgeous. Hopefully it will mean fewer barked shins, as well.

There was gaming and art on Sunday, which I haven't scanned yet.

It's a sulky, rainy day today, and we're watching movies while I do some Facebook promo and jot notes on my not-a-book. (Earlier, we had a balloon party and drew in Guppy's workbooks together).

Don't forget about the Amazon clearance: http://ellenmillion.dreamwidth.org/1609672.html

And the next Sketch Fest is the 21st! Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/144259459467548

And I promised artwork this week! I am the featured artist at Color On! Magazine. I did five exclusive pieces for them (back in April!), and you can buy print or digital issues. One of them is Butterflies at Solstice, posted a few weeks ago. One of them is this piece:


Under the Rose Bush - Fairy Wedding. The original is available, inquire!

You can read the interview they did here: https://coloronmag.com/issue/july-2017/

(And then there was food poisoning. Better now, but not up to bellydancing tonight.)

Originally posted at Dreamwidth: http://ellenmillion.dreamwidth.org/1609942.html

Yesterday I:
*Did 3 loads of laundry (washed, dried, folded - 1 of them got put away)
*Wrote a scene in my book (3 to go!)
*Got orders out
*Sent digital subscriptions
*Photodumped
*Weeded email (down to 250 today)
*cleaned the house
*organized my studio - one disaster cabinet in particular, and all the tables
*made Sketch Fest payments
*updated the webpage
*went grocery shopping
*got mail
*swapped out propane tanks
*dropped off my ipad for repair
*meals and dishes, oh my.

Today I:
*Put away the rest of the laundry
*had a playdate
*made a glass bead
*got another load of water
*mailed the hardcopy subscriptions
*finished insurance red tape
*cleaned the house again (because Guppy)
*weeded more email
*paid bills
*packed truck for show tomorrow
*Laid out two coloring book interiors

Tomorrow I:
*have a show from noon to 9! Come see me at the Bear Gallery at Alaskaland (I mean, Pioneer Park) - I will have coloring books and originals and may also be doing on-the-spot sketches!


If you would like to subscribe for a coloring book every month from July-December, I am opening this opportunity until the end of the month! I am unlikely to do a subscription service again, so this is your final chance to get a random awesome coloring book from my collection in your inbox or mailbox every month. It is $35 for digital, $85 for hardcopy (US shipping only).

The free coloring book sampler page this week is from APPLES AND ROSES, here: http://www.ellenmilliongraphics.com/coloringbook.php?id=56

Here is the next artwork reveal!

This pieces is called Snow and Feathers:


It is one of the five currently exclusive to Color On Magazine! http://coloronmag.com/

I've also got a new portrait available:



In other news, I survived parent aide day at preschool, and actually had a bit of fun! We did running around afterwards (delivered coloring books in town, went to the bank with checks and to get change for the shows this weekend, post office, and dropped off bags of clothing), and child is sleeping the sleep of the utterly worn out right now. I'm catching up on business-y things and feeling very much like I've been herding small caffienated cats all day.