Hi. I re-did the color scheme.

And maybe my whole art practice

I didn't mean to... I started doing these quick, vibrant paintings of some of my local urban fauna, and one thing led to another, and a few sleepless nights later, Sharptooth Snail exploded with color.

...and honestly? I think it has needed this for a long time. I know, now that I'm in the middle of this series, that I've been going in this direction for a long time.

I'm working with these animals because besides people and my dogs, these are the ones I have the most interactions with on a day-to-day basis. They are my neighbors.

I'm working with bright, vibrant, electric color, because a lot of the night creatures are only seen under electric lights.

I'm growing ever more fascinated by what it means to be "from here." I know a person who has lived here just shy of a decade who knows the streets and neighborhoods better than I do, and I grew up here.

The famed Busch Gardens Parrots of Pasadena? Not "native," per se, but they're definitely a fixture. And they're not invasive, exactly, because they feed mostly on the fruit trees that we planted in our back yards and parkways, and they don't compete with local species on their own turf. They are as "from here" as those of us who arrived or had an ancestor who arrived, and settled here.

This line of thinking, and these changes to my palette, have completely broken open the work I'm doing. I'm excited in a way I haven't been in a long time. The paintings, the cartoons, they all fit together in this exploration.
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I hope you like it. I hope you'll support it. I have prints available here and am utterly failing to do a collection drop like I should if I were more disciplined about marketing my work. More pieces are coming out as I make them, because I get excited and post them up right away.

Here let me do a button:

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Talk soon,

—Veronica

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