Food Fight Blog — work

Thank you to everyone who attended the Severe Snacks Coloring Book Release Party and art show! You made the party a smashing success. Through January, the prints are still up and the coloring books for sale at No Wave Coffee (7510 N Portsmouth). Check them out if you're in the neighborhood! Next weekend, I'll be slinging Severe Snacks Coloring Books, notebooks, and some new surprises at a pop-up holiday bazaar at downtown Portland's Valentines (232 SW Ankeny St). The details: Saturday December 17th  12-4 Fashion, music, art! Drink specials! Sweet sweet jams by DJ MINI SKIRT... And, last, but not least,...

Right now, there's a brown truck roaring west on freeway from Minnesota to Oregon. Its trailer holds, among whatever freaky stuff is in the rest of those packages, boxes of Severe Snacks- A Coloring Book. I look out the window, with confirmation number in hand and a space cleared in my art studio for the stacks. Oh, the drama of waiting for a package! I've been drawing these funny fighting snacks for over two years. I knew pretty quickly that I wanted to make them into a coloring book. Coloring books weren't just "in", there was also something really cool about them as a project. What artist wouldn't want...