Hi Everyone,

I hope you all are having a great summer!

I have some good news for all of you PSP tubers out there, NEW Ash Evans tubes are now up at Fantasy Scraps: http://ping.fm/p3lNj

This week only we are doing buy two get one free on prints, buy the two you normally would pay for and add the free one to the notes section of your purchase.

I am getting ready for Otakon, Connecticon and Confluence so I am really really busy. Stay tuned for new art and products!

Take care everyone!

Ash

And now for a little retail therapy plus other cool stuff!

Cofygirl's arm warmers, with out them I freeze my arse off at conventions:

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=100719


BPAL of course:
http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com/welcome.html
Their LE Garden Gnome is amazing!

Aromaleigh mineral eyeshadows:
http://www.aromaleigh.com/

Tiny Cravings jewelry (they are having a sale this week I can't wait!)
http://www.tinycravings.com/index.html

Paperback swap: www.paperbackswap.com a must have for summer reading!!

Dr Martins my shoe of choice (aside from converse one stars)



HBO True Blood:http://www.hbo.com/trueblood/season2/

Ursula Vernon's Digger (volume 4 out now: http://www.diggercomic.com/


Another amazing comic Lackadaisy: http://www.lackadaisycats.com/

Mouseguard: http://www.mouseguard.net/

That's all for now but I will post more of my fav's later!!

So we are back from Anthrocon a few dollars richer and lacking sleep. We had a really wonderful time at the con and will be back again next year as long as there are no scheduling conflicts. I have scads of photos which I will share later. I'll prolly just do a large video blog about it as there is a lot to say.

Today I feel totally wrecked but am trying my best to recover and quickly. We have one week off and then will most likely be at Otakon Baltimore. I am waiting to see about a table though we had some VERY generous folks offer us a bit of space in the dealers room. It will depend on a lot of things if we go or not. Mainly getting wholesale orders out and other things done.

I have a LOT of projects going at once. This week I will be doing some line art for a really neat new product that will be through Tate and Company. Then some more Purrsnickety character design and some other things for a gaming company. I am packed to the max.

This week only prints are buy TWO get one FREE. Just buy the ones you would normally and then add the free one in the notes section or if you forget EMAIL the free print. No limits to how many you get free so have at it. The offer ends July 13th and I will not be offering this again for the whole of the summer so take advantage.

Well that is it for today, have a good one

Hi Everyone,

We are leaving Denver in a few hours. Our last day at INATS was yesterday and it went pretty well. We had a lot of fun despite some issues I was having at this altitude. This afternoon we get in and start processing orders. They ALL ship out tomorrow as we are heading out again on Thursday for Anthrocon in Pittsburgh. My mom gets a little break from pet sitting and then she is back at it again staying at our house. We have to go to the pet store and get more food, pack for Anthrocon and load the van. SO much to do.

We have some really cool products coming out soon from various places. There were a lot of people at the show interested in licensing and stuff so who knows what will come out of it. I think I am not going to be updating from Anthrocon just because we are SO busy and time is really limited. We are home again for a week after that and then off to another show (this one is local so we can STAY HOME)

Anyway July is going to be one of the busiest months of the year for me so honestly I don't know how much I am going to be posting journals on LJ. I am sure you noticed I turned off commenting. I am just way too busy to read and answer stuff at the moment. Sorry!!

Well I better get a move on our shuttle to the airport leaves in an hour...its 5 am here I am SO over getting up before dawn for shows that is for sure.

Have a great day everyone and I miss you all!!

SO we are here in Denver safe and sound but it was pretty hellish getting here. Starting with screw ups at the ticketing counter that weren't found until AFTER we got through the security line and then being on a jam packed flight full of small children (one of which decided to start its percussion career on the back of my seat for over 4 hours) Then the storm hit. Denver was hit with thunderstorms so severe they weren't landing planes. Our flight held off in the air until we where almost out of fuel. We then had to make an unscheduled landing in Colorado springs to refuel on the runway. ALL flights at that time where being diverted there which made it a total cluster F if you know what I mean. While sitting on the runway Denver shut down and we where trapped on a plane on the runway for about 4 hours. We then flew through a storm to get to Denver, had to take another shuttel to the hotel (we had clearly missed ours) which we found out was a little over a half hour away from the airport. So our airport experience started at 1 pm EST and ended at about 11 PM Central and we hadn't eaten anything all day.

Our packages actually beat us here which in retrospect is kinda funny. So we are here, our stuff is here and in a few hours we will go set up. I got about 2 hours of sleep but thankfully today is only set up day. I don't think we will be schmoozing anyone today as we are both pretty beat..well I am Johnnie is still snoring away and it is about a half hour till our wake up call. I am drinking my Airborne and am pretty stoked for the show despite the drawn out trip here, I mean hell at least we didn't have to do it in some covered wagon or something.

OK and how sad is it all these people died yesterday?? We had no idea until Midnight anything had happened at all. Makes me want to get that Iphone.

Hope all is well. All orders shipped out yesterday!!

So we take off tomorrow evening for Colorado and man has it been a busy week so far. I did ALL my regular prints for the con and bagged them. I have some velvet prints and things to do still and they need to be done before we leave. We are only home for a short bit after INATS and then we leave for Anthrocon in Pittsburgh PA. This is going to be perhaps the craziest two weeks of the year.

I ran out of ink we did so much printing that I had to get more overnighted to us. I have a lot of straightening up to do as my mother is staying in our home while we are gone. We like to have the place clean and tidy for guests especially ones doing us a favor. The place has styrofoam bits everywhere as we have gone through over a thousand figurines. We finished last night I think we did about 1800 in all so we have a proper inventory count for the shows. Everything is signed and ready to go. I have a lot of sweeping to do thanks to the little foam bits all over the place. I have to get the pets all ready with spotless cages and short nails and about a million other things. INATS we have been ready for, everything is shipped I am packed. I am just scrambling with Anthrocon and house cleaning.

I will hopefully be working on some Purrsnicketys character designs while I am on the road I want to start another one ASAP upon my return. I need to do some other work for a company I hope to collaborate with. It would be really awesome if it happened but there is a lot of prep work involved so we will see. I have a website to build and design, my to do list is a million miles long. It will all work out OK though. I am doubting you will be hearing from me at INATS it is a trade show and out of respect for my fellow vendors I will not be taking photographs involving booth set ups and what have you, no need to give anyone an unfair advantage of seeing it. I am looking forward to seeing some good friends but firstly I am there to work my butt off, if there is time for anything else great if not great.

The site will remain open for orders ALL orders placed from today June 24-June 30th will ship July 1st, after that normal shipping will resume.

So there you have it! Have a great rest of the week everyone, wish me luck.

Chessie figurine auction ending in a few hours: http://ping.fm/0VbHf

So what I have been working on in the background is character and web design for my graphic novel and new website for the graphic novel. It is going to be a long way coming but I am happy to unveil the new and improved Chitters.


Before: After:


This is for her bio in the bio section of the website which will have a circus theme.

Prints are available with and without fire:



We are down to the last few hundred figurines all inventory will be done tomorrow.

Well we are getting down to the wire here. Thankfully INATS is all taken care of and all we have to do at this point is hope that our packages get there on time. Johnnie and I have been doing figurine inspection every night and we should be finished by tomorrow at the latest.

I ran out of INK!! I was doing prints for Anthrocon and blew through the cartridges and my backups. I blame a clogged ink cartridge for most of the issue. LUCKILY Epson is doing free overnight shipping so I should have it tomorrow. I pretty much need to be packed and ready for anthrocon before I go to INATS as we are only back a few days and after shows like that you feel like you have been hit by a bus.

I have a TON of cleaning to do. My mom is staying with my animals in our home for the time we are gone. This way she can get packages and the pets have someone to hang out with so they don't get lonely. Right now however the house looks like a bomb went off with styrafoam mess and boxes and everything. I have to make it nice for her to stay so that is also on my ever growing to do list.

Today I would like to finish painting Chitters, bag up all of the prints I did get out yesterday and start cleaning. I am going to have to run out and get pet food so they don't run out when we are gone either. So many things go into shows and back to back ones in two very different parts of the country neither of them being out home is a little stressful. We will be OK though.

Well I have some calls to make and some prints to bag so I better get to it.

Painting live again: Broadcasting live now! See me at http://ping.fm/W9z9e

Broadcasting live now! See me at http://ping.fm/KF4AC

So most of the day I have spent refining my character "Chitters" for my graphic novel. Once each one is finalized I am going to be doing a little portrait painting of each one digitally for the website and for the little bio section of the graphic novel itself. I would say I am 30% into Chitters and I really like how she is turning out. I don't know if I will do all eight in a row or not. Johnnie and I will be building the Purrsnicektys website ourselves with a little help from our friends. I want everything with this project to be perfection to the letter so it is going to take AGES.

In other news we are almost 50% through ALL of the figurines and hope to have it completed by this weekend. We are getting things ready to ship out for INATS as well as managing delivers and the like.

My propanels came today!!! I haven't even opened them yet but I am sure they are AWESOME. I will be debuting them at Antrocon in a few weeks. I hope to have at least this Purr portrait completed by Anthrocon.

Hi Everyone,

Today I am just getting everything ready for INATS. Not too exciting, just packing and planning.

I AM however having a bargain EBAY auction for a Chessie figurine. He is only .10!! I was going to list him for a penny but for some odd reason EBAY kept changing it so I said oh well it is still a DIME. It is signed by me, you can bid here: http://ping.fm/hJwkD

So last night was the premiere of the HBO hit series True Blood based on the amazing Charlaine Harris books. They do deviate from the book but it is still AWESOME!! I am so in heart with the shape shifter on the show it is just silly. Johnnie and I watched the new episode last night and I think it is going to be a good season! I am excited also to be able to meet Charlaine Harris at DragonCon this year. I have read all 9 of the published books so far and they are awesome.

Next week we leave for INATS so we are wrapping up preparations for that and get stuff ready for anthrocon this week. Instead of painting a bunch of "furry" art I have been in the background developing my graphic novel including character design and fleshing out the story and basic story boarding. It is going to be a pretty immense undertaking considering I have never worked on a comic in my life. But I am not following the rules (when have I ever) I am going to be looking to have 2 new websites designed and we are working on a million other things as well.

I have been looking a lot lately at turn of the century side show posters as inspiration for some of the art for an upcoming project and that has been a lot of fun. Things up in the air have reached a new level of insanity.

Everything is good on the way to being pretty kick ass.

Have a great day everyone.

The figurines are HERE, in stock and ready to ship COME AND GET THEM!!!!!!