I’m excited to announce that I’ve been accepted into a Master’s Program of Illustration at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California! I intend to finish their MFA program and hopefully complete some internships to help me further my career. It is an exciting thing to finally break free of the world of The Dayjob and have a fresh start on something new. I just completed my second day of classes, and am excited to be back in the world of academia.

This of course also gives me a bit more free time to work on artwork, which is great because I’ve got a new commission, and a possible chance at illustrating some children’s books.

I’m also in the midst of printing new business cards, and some bookmarks of my art to have a new offering in my Etsy.com store. I also think it may be time for a nice facelift for Joieart.net. New era, new design! I hope to have some new artwork very soon!

I wanted to take a moment and talk about one of my favorite yearly causes– the March of Dimes! I love taking part in raising money to help out babies; I’ve been walking in the MoD for years now. I started participating when I worked at a local grocery store in high school, and have been ever since. I am walking again this year with my employer’s team, but I also am donating a poster-sized print of Redneck Pigs to an auction where all proceeds go straight to the March of Dimes. Let’s hope that it wins tons of money for those babies!

If you’re interested and want to know more information, please visit March of Dimes to find a location to walk in your area or to make a donation!

Edit: I managed to raise $175 in just under 48 hours for the cause! Thanks everyone!

I have added another section to the Portfolio page called Graphics Work. It’s meant to house some of the graphics work and web design I have done over the years. Originally I had not intended to make those things part of this website, but I have changed my mind. Design is a big part of my art, and I find myself doing graphics frequently in my art career. I added some of my oldest works, and will be adding some of the newer items and photo restorations/manipulations soon.

This blog has been quiet the last few months, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been up to exciting things! Having seen how successful my prints were at the 151 Midtown Art Show last November, I decided it was high time to stick my toes in the water of internet sales.

http://joieart.etsy.com

Etsy.com is a website dedicated to the sale of handmade items. I thought it would be the best platform from which to begin selling my prints. Currently there are four prints for sale, but there will be more as the week winds down. I also only accept Paypal as a payment method– but hopefully that will be remedied soon.

There’s lots more fun news, commissions, and new art that’ll be posted in coming weeks. I’ve got plans formulated that I’m very excited about! Thanks for stopping by again.

I wanted to remind my readers to follow me on Twitter! I post quite a lot of art, Vinny, and website-related material on my feed, including snapshots of what I’m working on at the time! It’s a fun way to see what sort of things I’m up to in between posts here on my blog.

If you have a Twitter account and would like for me to follow you as well, make sure to let me know. I like keeping in touch with all my friends.

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