Bite
a request for help, good books, two enormous gifts, how colors look together, something for the early bird
Will you help me pick out prints? We’re opening the shop this week and I want to include the ones that mean the most to you. Which ones do you want to see? I put some ideas at the end, but everything is fair game.
-brit
Thu May 14, 9am PT: Member PRESHOP
Fri May 15, 9am PT: Open to all
We’ll be open through the weekend, or until we sell out. In November we had to call it after 1.5 days, so set an alarm if you want some art!
Hi friends,
I’ve just tidied off my desk. I found two cookies in a crinkly bag that I bought at a bakery last week. They seemed so special that I saved them. Now, they are big, chocolate chipped stones. Perhaps this is it, maybe I’ve had it with saving up the good stuff. I’ve already begun this approach with my reading. If I get a new book that I am excited about, I will start it even if I have two other good ones from the Lucky Day section that can’t be renewed and another one half way going. I enjoy reading more when I go where the energy is, and bite before it becomes a to-do list. I started reading again when I was sick last year. Before that was almost ten years of being too fast-paced in my mind to track 300 pages. I read as a kid, I read for school, and then I couldn’t anymore. I know I am just forgetting how hard it was to be sick, but I think of it now like some great breaking-out of whatever my life had become before. Now I can read again, and I feel more open to death. Two enormous gifts. Earlier this week I reread Liana Finck’s graphic memoir Passing for Human and felt like this time I really got it; I’m so glad I returned. I’ve also had a good time with Go Gentle (Maria Semple), Heart the Lover (Lily King), Rooftoppers (Katherine Rundell), and Dead and Alive (Zadie Smith) since I last mentioned good books (here and here). I’ve just begun Beautyland (Marie-Helene Bertino), and read this line, which touched a certain kind of complicated feeling on mother’s day: “She worries the gifted program is too much pressure. A little girl should not retreat so often into thought, a space a mother cannot breach, no matter how many times she calls her name.” Whew. Books.
Danielle and I have been brainstorming on how to make our Patreon more fun (if that’s even possible) and thought we’d make welcome postcards for new members. It was a new idea that felt like a memory, something so obvious, why didn’t we start doing this years ago?
Danielle is going to the post office today to buy some postcard stamps. They’re going to be so cute.
Otherwise it’s been slow and steady here in the studio. I am doing studies, forever finding out how colors look together, my favorite inquiry.
I’ve also been putting together sticker packs for the drop this week. Many of these were made as samples so I only have enough to make about a dozen or so sets. A little something for the early bird. :)
And lastly, just a shoutout to this dog who I met at a really wonderful artist talk. She was facing away from the stage with all her heart, bored as can be.
My goal for today/tomorrow is to finalize the selection of prints for the drop. I have about 250 to choose from and my plan is to get it down to a perfect set of 30. This drop is for you, so I want to include the ones that mean the most to you. Which ones do you want to see? I’ll pop some ideas in below, but everything is fair game!
love,
brit
The Shop is Opening!
We do this just one or two weekends a year outside of the holidays. Loads of prints in all sizes, sticker packs, original paintings.
Thu May 14, 9am PT: Member PRESHOP*
Fri May 15, 9am PT: Open to all
We’ll be open through the weekend, or until we sell out.** In November we had to call it after 1.5 days, so set an alarm if you want some art
*All paid members on Substack and Patreon (any tier) have access to the preshop. For a note on the difference between the two platforms, see here. And starting now, new Patreon members get a welcome post card until we run out. :)
**Limited items like sticker packs and originals can sell out individually. Prints are open stock. We’ll close the shop if we hit the max number of overall orders that we can fill in our promised shipping timeframe. This has happened the last two times we’ve opened the shop, so try to set a reminder and come by early!
