Sneezes with Goats

I have never been able to do things the easy way. If left to my own devices, I will come up with the most complicated way possible (and then beat myself up about it when it fails to work).

Today I am trying to slap-together an illustration using a “lost” technique that looks best on a board that hasn’t been manufactured since 1971 - but first the board must be smoothed with the skin of a goat native to the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania. Really.

Smooth, continuous-tone illustrations made with a pencil were