Gift Art : Thank you, Josie

Day five of a six-day stretch of 8+ hours running amok and my body felt like it was going to fall apart, between sheer clumsiness, a headache, and the stress of impatient customers and incompetent co-workers/trainee.  My bosses' sister Josie, who comes in almost every day for coffee and tabbouleh, offered me a discount for an hour-long full-body massage last week and I accepted, scheduling it for the end of the week when I feel most run-down.

It was heavenly.  When I got up off the table, it was like waking up from a good night's sleep, like I'd never experienced the (to quote April Winchell from Regretsy) "whimsicle fuckery" of the previous ten hours.  I felt refreshed, energized, and creative.  This was my thank-you piece to her, drawn in Border's/Seattle's Best (the same parking lot where I took my inaugural stick-shift driving of my beloved car, Felix).  I also started another piece, and came home and scanned a bunch of things to be posted later.

Sketch paper folded into a card, sharpie pen (outline), Muji pen (.5) detail, approximately 1.25 hours from start to finish.