Well, I am extremely pleased to announce that prints should be coming a bit faster now. My old crappy Dell/ Lexmark printer started having issues a while back. I ordered ink for it and there was a screw-up with the order so it didn't come in time. I was having issues finding the over-opriced cartridges for it locally. With art shows coming up that I need to print paperwork for, it was just unacceptable for me to not have print capability. So, I determined it might serve me better to just see if I could pick up a simple black and white laser printer or something to hold me over until I could invest in getting a decent Epson to make  prints on. Then I wouldn't have to waste too much ink printing non-art stuff. It turns out I didn't have to wait to get an Epson. We found an Epson CX6000 at Fry's for $99. The cost to refill the ink is only slightly higher for the REAL Epson inks than I was paying for knock-offs for the other printer (How screwed up is that? You suck, Dell!) The bonus is, this new Epson uses the archival Dura Brite inks, so I can now make my own archival prints at home. Granted, it's limited in size, but that's okay. It only prints up to 8.5" x 11", but that would allow me to do ACEO (2.5" x 3.5"), 5 x 7 and 8 x 10 prints all in-house instead of having to send them off to Ohio to be done. It also allows me to do adequate proofs to send to the printer if I want bigger items printed, so I may offer larger format prints at some point if I see a demand for them (which I haven't, thus far). The new printer also has a scanner attached that's better than my old crappy Visioneer One-Touch. It's just big enough to allow me to scan the 9 x 12 pastels without losing too much of the image. I'll be working on getting more of those into print format soon. For now, I'm focusing on black and white works because they don't require proofing and I can get them done fairly easily. I did get Cirque Du Nuit: The Nightmare prepared and proofed. It is available now on the website. I'll have it on Cafe Press items soonish, too, since I have a better scan of it now.

     In keeping with the fact that I wanted some more black & white works ready to send out to cons now that I can print them in-house, I pulled up one of my old tribal dragon design doodles and finished her up last night while I was suffering from a monster bout of insomnia. The finished piece is called Sonrisa Malvada (Spanish for "evil smile"). I've already got a buyer for the #1 Special Mat print. *WOOT!* It's nice to have a patron who is my fangirl as well as my best friend. LOL I'm likely going to go back and try to finish some other black and white images I'd had on reserve to work on later like Aamon. Definitely expect to see a bit more in black and white from me coming up simply because it's crazy easy for me to print them now. XD I'll have more color stuff soon, too. I just need to wait until I can afford more ink for proofing. It tends to eat quite a bit getting the images to look the way I want.