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Lest you think I’ve turned this blog into an all-t-shirts, all-the-time promotional vehicle, I give you the Friday Fish (well, turtle) as a stand-alone piece of art.
For the uninitiated, scratchboard is an art technique that is reductive- you start with a board that has two layers, and scratch the top layer to reveal the bottom. [...]

So I’m sitting here watching the Democratic National Convention, and Bob Casey just delivered this great line (and I’m paraphrasing here); John McCain votes with Bush around 90 percent of the time, that’s no Maverick, he’s a Sidekick.
My T Shirt senses started tingling! I leapt to action and made this design with the phrase. I [...]

I do like a good internet meme. I don’t think Wordle drills down very far because apparently it thinks my blog is all about unicorns, even though I just about never talk about them. I get “cute” being huge, because I talk about cute things an awful lot.
Anyway, I thought it was a kind of [...]

You might say I have “unicorn issues.” I like them; that should be fairly clear by the fact that this blog is called blackunicorn.org. I don’t tend to draw unicorns, though. I used to, back when I was in junior high, or early high school. And then I just stopped, I suppose because the College [...]

Yeah, remember what I said about having more time to blog back at the beginning of the month? All those plans were laid to waste when my left elbow started exploding with pain every time I moved it. Yay! A new nerd injury! It’s bursitis; basically, the slippery tissue covering my elbow filled up with [...]

Here’s July. I did one doodle for every day I worked (you can see that I called in sick on the 21st).
I’ve got a number of plates spinning right now, so I had to let blogging fall by the wayside to keep up. I anticipate that will change in the next couple of days or [...]