It's been a short while...

This winter has been really rough on my creative process, more so than the winter typically is. I am definitely one of the millions of Minnesotans who is negatively affected by five months of the perma-cloud. But the sun has shown its lovely face and I have felt its warm rays upon my skin, even if it is shortlived. I feel very much renewed! One of the many projects I want to continue working on this spring is my alphabet book that I started early this winter but from which I have since taken a couple months hiatus. I like to look at this project as my autobiography at its simplest. Every letter references an important object or memory in my childhood and what that object or memory symbolizes to me now as an adult. Each illustration includes a little Liz, how I picture myself as a child. Here's a peak at a few of the letters I have been working on: