Being unexpectedly recognized for a piece of art boosted my overthinking mind. Now I need to embrace it. Okay. I had a loose plan for the Members Show at the Attleboro Arts Museum. It was to print a four-color linoleum block print. I had finished cutting it months...
Illustration by D.R. Laferriere This past week, I had my first direct encounter with a scammer on LinkedIn. They tried to exploit my current job-seeking situation, posing as someone eager to “help.” It all started shortly after a blog post posted on LinkedIn. A person...
Illustration by DRLaferriere I've been looking for a job for the past few months. Now and then, as part of a job description or how someone may describe the employee they're looking for, they will reference that they are looking for a "unicorn." My first thought is...
By being ‘on’ I mean the drawings that day would be a good ones. I really didn't care how good or bad the drawing was. It was all about the idea, the thought I had in my head that morning, and about having some fun. Are there sandwich bag drawings that I don't like? I...
When I started, I didn't think that my sandwich bag art may go viral and that didn’t happen quickly. Unless you think 4 years is quick. School mornings began with coffee, make sandwiches, make sure the kids were awake, draw something on each bag, make sure the kids...
May 1, 2008, that's the date stamp on the first bag I uploaded to my Flickr feed and I can't not use this cliche: it doesn't seem like 14 years ago. Doing a quick drawing on my kids' sandwich bags began after I tried and failed to draw directly on the bread with food...