Animore Con Jan 11th – 13th

This weekend is Animore Con in Baltimore, MD. I have setup my table and ready for a fun weekend of anime!! Follow me on Instagram and Facebook to see all the fun moments during the con.

I will have prints of my paintings including anime fan art. I have brought five of my original painting and I will be selling Fairy and Dragons Friendship T-shirt.

I have two announcement:

  1. I will be giving away a free t-shirt. Make sure to come visit my table to require for a chance to win a t-shirt. I will be drawing name out of a box on Sunday at 11am of the event.

  2. I will be often free shipping to anyone at the con so make sure to visit my table and show me your badge. I will be giving these who visit my table a code for free shipping.

This is a great time to meet me and I will have more to talk about my comic book that I will have release in Oct 2019. I look forward to meeting all of you and making new friends.

Update:

This weekend have been amazing. Thank you to those who came out. Here are some pictures from this weekend.

Richmond Comic Con Dec 8th, 2018

I am excited about the Richmond Comic Con that is on Dec 8th, 2018. I will have a table setup. I will be selling prints of my painting. I will have 21 different prints for sell. And I will have one t-shirt design which is the image below. It will have words on the back saying “Sometimes the unlikely pairs will become the best of friends.” I will have only 50 t-shirt; however, if I run out I will have a sign up sheet for pre-sales.

Due to the fact this my first time selling my items in person, I have a limit amount of prints and items. I am not sure which items will sale more than others. So I will have pre-order form for these who see something they like that I may run out of and I will work with them to get the item ship out to them. This is a good opportunity to found that perfect Christmas gift for your love one.

Dec 8, 2018! Richmond, VA!

Also, I will have my friend with her camera and we will be taking lots of pictures. I would love to take pictures with some great cosplay! I will use the content from this event in my first newsletter that will be release in the middle of December. I also will have a sign up sheet for people who want to sign up for my monthly newsletter. I will love to share with you in person what fun and cool things I have plan for the future.

Open House at Crossroads Art Center Event Review

Unfortunately my painting Lunch time for Dragon Fly is not in the Crossroads Art Center. Below is the video of my review on what happen that night and why it is not in the show. I was very disappointed how they handier my concerns. I had an event setup on my Facebook page and pay $30 promotion for Facebook to promote my event. I was using this event to create event to get new people interesting in my art. So it came cross to me as they was rejection my style of art and me as an artist. I talk with a few people who came in the parking lot of the event that night who came to see my art. We took some pictures today and I show them my painting near my car. I am so grateful to these who came out and give me the emotion support that night.

Like I say the video this event is only a footnote and I have more to come.

Holiday Depression

Around the holiday I feel sad so I can only paint something dark. This painting is a reflection of how I feel around this time. Holiday was not always a depression time for me. Once I was very happy and celebrate the holidays with my family. However, I no longer have family to celebrate the holiday with so holidays only bring pain to my heart.

This painting is a reflection of the pain of depression and anxiety I feel. The truth be told I am not the only one who deal with depression. Two out of five people have some form of depression and/or anxiety. My depression and anxiety is not what it use to be. I had counselor and have people who support me. I still have time when that pain will come to the surface but that is only normal with the life I have experience. I have learn overtime how to overcome depression and anxiety which my art help with that. I am able to express what I am feeling in a painting and take a step back to reflect and say to myself that it is okay to feel this way. The moment we accept that how we are feeling we can come to terms and move on from that moment.

My own depression is around my divorce. I was marry for 11 years and at the time of separation. I was having trouble with depression and anxiety. My ex-husband took advance of my depression and got the courts to take my children from me. He also twist the stories around and had my parents and sibling rejection me during the worst part of my life. The people I believe that was my friends in the church abandon me. I found myself very much alone and rebuilding my life on my own.If it have not been for me being a veteran and veteran hospital in Richmond, VA helping me during that dark side of my life. I don’t know where I would have end up. My love for anime, hiking, and painting all help. I watch anime that encourage me to not give up. I went hiking to get quiet and to cry in peace. And I painting things that I love such as views from my hiking trips, my kids, and anime fan art of course. I explored new hobbies and new communities. Basically I went soul searching in my own nerd way.

I believe as a society we need to education ourselves in mental health a whole lot more than we have. These days I heard more conversation about mental health such as being rejection from church group because they are a little different from the rest of the church, schools not understand trust issue between students and teacher in early age by doing a random shooting drill without letting the parents know, and human resource in corporation not understand micro manager can be harassment coming from supervisor because it say to the employee that you don’t true me to do my job.

First we need to understand what mental health is and what may cause a person to feel depress. Mental health is define as a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. If we look for keys words then it would be easier to understand that situation can cause someone to feel depression. Keywords such as rejection, scary, hurt, betray, distrust, being accused, and etc. If we heard these words in how a person feel or think it, it could reflection how they view the situation. However, it is not the words along that does it, it is the love they shared with the people who hurt them behind the words. It may mean they trust them first and may have thought they would never hurt me to this extent.

I think the final step would be for us to have more of a open conversation about our feeling and how our actions effects these feeling we are having. This does not just apply to individual but to companies, churches, schools, and government. All of these organizational are run by people so mental health should always be an important part in their policy.