Katie Cook

I have been making silly set pieces for my kiddo’s musical all day and having so much fun,

Epi lives in the gutter between my Cintiq and my stomach.

This is not an official Wacom accessory

I am making tiny crabs

That looks amazing!

I’m making little beach things all day today that will only be used for 1 song.
Then the walls.
Then the trim.
……then….

I hope everyone has fun at Emerald City Comic Con this weekend!

You can find me at a table full of paints in the alley behind the local high school instead of at a table full of paints in artists alley.
If you find me there, you’re helping me put a 7’ square design on 4 huge walls.

Shoutout to my favorite Disney Princess dress :

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I will make each one of those kids take a knee and pledge their allegiance to that cat.

Okay but hear me out:

The woman in charge of all the props for the play brings her cute, insanely well-behaved, tiny dog to set build sometimes.
I am taking this as an open invitation to wear my cat strapped to me in a Baby Bjorn to paint sets

Bonus: oh my god the compliments. Your ego and won’t fit through the load-in doors by the end of the day.
I could CHARGE artists to come paint school sets because that ultimate high of being the kid good at art that we all keep chasing?
That times x1,000,000.

I have had a blast paintings some sets for The Teen’s musical.

All artists should volunteer for this kinda thing. It’s a puzzle of “here’s what’s in the backstage area that’s been here since Eisenhower and the town’s leftover house paint for the last 5 years. You have three weeks. Enjoy”

Considering I’ve never really painted stage sets before the learning curve isn’t too bad. I’m already planning out how to attack a beach umbrella backdrop for later this week, ha!

I was going to tackle painting several huge palace walls today but they weren’t ready yet.
Instead, while Olaf (Frozen) sings “in Summer”,one of the set pieces is a multi-tier sunny postcard.
Here’s the giant Olaf Sun my kid and I did that will drop in from the ceiling:

Today I painted 6 of these giant “wood” panels that are part of the castle walls (Frozen the Musical at The Teen’s school. I’m helping paint sets)
What a solid reminder that even if you fucked something up, no one will notice it from 40’ away.

I can’t wait to watch them paint over them for the next play

Today I painted 6 of these giant “wood” panels that are part of the castle walls (Frozen the Musical at The Teen’s school. I’m helping paint sets)
What a solid reminder that even if you fucked something up, no one will notice it from 40’ away.

My thumbnails for my comic panels are a hot mess but the important thing is that I kinda know what’s happening

This is so cool

Black and white illustration featuring a forest setting with central hippo like creature, hedgehog in the foreground and birds flying overhead

Illustration from Tove Jansson's book 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' (1945) #Womensart

I think a bunch of teens thinking I’m cool is healing some long-buried high school anxiety for me

I walked out of the stage’s load in doors earlier and looked at social media for the first time since last night. I almost walked straight back in and offered to paint anything else to go back to blissful ignorance for another couple hours

I was going to tackle painting several huge palace walls today but they weren’t ready yet.
Instead, while Olaf (Frozen) sings “in Summer”,one of the set pieces is a multi-tier sunny postcard.
Here’s the giant Olaf Sun my kid and I did that will drop in from the ceiling:

Well I certainly picked an interesting news day to leave my phone in my bag backstage all day while I painted sets.

Larry Hama posted online, “I am getting messages from Comics Gaters claiming that the vast majority of my fans are in their ranks. If this is true, I truly regret the last 40 years of my work. And I have to question the clarity of my writing if so many misinterpreted what I had to say all these years.”

Larry is the best

work in progress: inks --> flats --->about 5 more layers of stuff.

You should see my grocery lists. No one but me can understand them (according to Ryan)