Larger view of September’s thumbnails

September turned out to be a month of lots of alien and space content, and of course, the squirrels. The squirrels in my yard tend to provide lots of content for my daily art journal practice. I’m also trying to get caught up on my blog as I want to get some other things posted. The SEO articles are always like “update your blog on a regular basis for the algorithms!” Yeah, no. That’s not me, that’s not this blog. This is my fun art blog and I’m not going to get chained to the algorithms. If no one ever reads this, fine. I had fun making it and that’s all that matters. If you happen to read it, cool. I hope you enjoy it!

(As always, you can click each image to make it bigger and zoom in).

• 01 – Buzzsaw Squirrels. The squirrels are gathering nuts from the tree and eating them and making a huge mess!
• 02 – Window cleaning day! I realized this morphed into the roof of the previous drawing in an unintentional way.
• 03 – Eating ice cream, and buying socks. Visiting Jeni’s Ice Cream (always said in Forrest Gump voice) and Old Town Sock Co. in Alexandria.

• 04 – This is my interpretation of the commercial about shingles not caring.
• 05 – Doing a live interview is terrifying.
• 06 – The two foxes in our backyard were playing and it was hilarious. Lots of running and jumping on each other.
• 07 – The chippitys (Chippities? However it’s spelled.) were gathering and hogging all the birdseed and peantus.

• 08 – Music is voodoo. That’s how a non-musician hears a musician explaining it.
• 09 – Giant praying mantis knocking on my front door.
• 10 – Visiting the Fairlington Farmer’s Market. I’ve noticed lots of areas around here have a name ending in “-lington.” I’m disappointed there’s no Klingonton, VA around here.

• 11 – Sometimes when I don’t know what to draw, which usually happens on Mondays, I draw how much I dislike Mondays.
• 12 – I actually drew “Guardians of the Galaxy were here” on a public whiteboard. Complete with aliens.
• 13 – Found a gift shop that had a cool alien purse!
• 14 – When you stay at a conference too long. 3 days is too much. 4 days is pure insanity. Conferences drain my energy and that’s when one becomes Conference Roadkill.

• 15 – There’s a dog at the dog park that for the past several days we’ve walked by, he misses the catch on his squeaky spike ball and it ends up over the fence. We always get it for him. I think he does this on purpose.
• 16 – Visiting the famous Politics and Prose bookstore.
• 17 – Why I can’t enjoy Sunday. Because Monday is lurking.

• 18 – Rage against the dying of the light – This was on a list of poems and I always think of Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School. The little light bulb responding was bonus.
• 19 – Something in a pita burger did not agree with my guts. The pita burger from an unnamed restaurant is evil. The restaurant is off the list.
• 20 – Day 2 of bad pita burger destroying my guts. That restaurant no longer exists on this planet for me.
• 21 – Ben Folds concert!

• 22 – Fridays are usually fun days of the week where we do pizza trains, or get a busboys burger, or even tasty mac n’ cheese. Not today. Today was 3 strikes. Bowl of cereal Friday. How depressing.
• 23 – Saturday competing for Friday as a Day of Suck by raining all day.
• 24 – Watching 5 hours of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft come back and land on Earth in the Utah desert. For those unaware, it contains cool asteroid bits inside.

• 25 – Continuing with OSIRIS-REx, it does not contain aliens (or pieces of aliens) or the Andromeda Strain. It does contain cool asteroid bits.
• 26 – I decided to write Mars as a stand-up comic, complete with his little rover ears.
• 27 – I’m known as Conference Room Little Miss Muffet. I will keep switching chairs and adjusting them until I find a comfortable one. I’m not spending 6 hours in an uncomfortable chair.
• 28 – How to win the Airplane Game. No one in the middle seat, and enjoying an airplane PB&J sammie.

• 29 – The chaos that happens when the government gets close to a shutdown.
• 30 – Ending the month with a cool sunset over the city.