This is a print I made a very long time ago (2003, I think), called Goose on a Moose. Its unofficial subtitle is The Most Canadian Lino Print Ever Made. I love this print, and every so often I create a few of them for sale on Etsy. Then I quickly stop having fun making it.

I read so many blogs by great artists and designers and I admire their capacity for output. Sometimes I feel like I have nothing to offer because I have ideas but I lose patience once I am producing those ideas over and over, like with my Goose on a Moose print. I much prefer making two or three copies of things – or even just one – to give to friends or keep for myself. Is that normal? I suppose it is, since I’m not actually an artist. I’m a writer, and we don’t duplicate a story over and over. Perhaps editing for a writer is similar to making prints for a printmaker? Maybe it engages parts of the brain that are similar, but different enough to make it difficult to go easily back and forth between the two.

I am just thinking aloud, sorry! I’m in a bit of a sour mood this morning because we are in a heat wave and I am so much a spring and fall person. Humidity makes me have a grumpy face.