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Nearly outside my San Francisco abode in Belmont (yes!!!!) while I took another 3 week long workshop with master drawer a painter and thinker and even, gasp, talker! And funny to beat the band. He actually ended up having to kick one dear unhinged but wealthy soul—even Michelle p Feiffer and her lovely daughter were there—. I’m soooooooo relieved he didn’t kick me out. If you don’t know his work check it out. Anyway , this was before health intruded, I was still tryna learn and who knows, climb the recognition ladders, and so of course I turfed this quick, done standing holding a small notebook with I guess a little wc palette. while exhausted sketch. From the road, cuz you needed a key or $$ to get into nature in San Francisco, even then—2012 or so. Now I came across it on an external and thought, I remember that hot road. The thirsty grass. The already stricken pines. (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca3s5merlTZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Calling fountain penners out there, esp. @jacktrpn and of course @vancouverpenshop. Luna (the Tooner) dog chewed off some of the precious resin from my 1991 #montblancmeisterstück146 - “the Ladies pen” (it’s a fair bit slimmer than the not that I know of discontinued 149) so, should I send it via Van Pen Shop to be “serviced?” The nib after 30 years (since that really funny boyfriend bought it for me) is a bit less perky. But you know, covid, climate change, fascism creeping in again… not to mention Canada Post… do GIVE ME PAUSE thanks!!!! Any mb’ers feel pres to opine. #mbmeisterstuck ##montblancmeisterstuck #montblancladies146 #montblanc146 https://www.instagram.com/jennifermittoncomics/p/CZGTzoSrp4x/?utm_medium=tumblr

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When Luna was little her ear tips had a curl that could melt any brute’s heart. Also, Beau was so big then. #drawdogs #idrawdogs #whosagooddog #gooddogs #penandink #iroshizuku #zebrag #fountainpen #fountainpendogs #draweveryday #whynotdraw #drawanyway https://www.instagram.com/p/CZA_qOgrtNH/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#beau #beauber #myfavouriteboy https://www.instagram.com/p/CYbPy0Yrzxw/?utm_medium=tumblr

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thank you mom for giving me— out of the blue—bob dylans prose chapbook Tarantula. Thanks bob dylan for giving me the badass lyrics that gave me words for my teenage grudges, after my mother ran and allowed me to come with. Meaning for the first time in my life I was allowed to hang out with school friends cuz there was no longer hush hush going on at home. thank you mom for giving me— out of the blue—bob dylans prose chapbook Tarantula. Thanks bob dylan for giving me the badass lyrics that gave me words for my teenage grudges, after my mother ran and allowed me to come with. Meaning for the first time in my life I was allowed to hang out with school friends cuz there was no longer hush hush going on at home. #familysecrets #bobdylan #tompetty #tarantula #tarantulabobdylan https://www.instagram.com/p/CYbKz9yrghh/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Please comment on your prefs for the line drawings solo or the water nuked ones. I think I’m leaning to the line drawings but maybe cuz the water was wayyyy too liberal. Funny how nuked and heavy-handed were the first descriptions that came to mind. I’m finding it harder to post these days—yet another “this is soooo first-draft” stretch and what bothers me more, something kind of new from the world as it seems to me —“what’s the point.” Even writing seems pointless. ashes to ashes etc. But mercifully I’m still doodling. And since this IS the New Normal—I’m gonna push myself to post a few from yesterday. Maybe get some get up n go back. Thank dog I’ve got two small white dogs who just need my love, now, please. #penandink #zebrag #ospreyscholar #iroshiku #linedrawing #jowls #dogyears #oaf https://www.instagram.com/p/CXct3vNLPCd/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Please comment on your prefs for the line drawings solo or the water nuked ones. I think I’m leaning to the line drawings but maybe cuz the water was wayyyy too liberal. Funny how nuked and heavy-handed were the first descriptions that came to mind. I’m finding it harder to post these days—yet another “this is soooo first-draft” stretch and what bothers me more, something kind of new from the world as it seems to me —“what’s the point.” Even writing seems pointless. ashes to ashes etc. But mercifully I’m still doodling. And since this IS the New Normal—I’m gonna push myself to post a few from yesterday. Maybe get some get up n go back. Thank dog I’ve got two small white dogs who just need my love, now, please. #penandink #zebrag #ospreyscholar #iroshiku #linedrawing #jowls #dogyears #oaf https://www.instagram.com/p/CXctgzor5n2/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I’m finding it hard to post these days—yet another “this is soooo first-draft” and what bothers me more, “what’s the point.” Even writing seems pointless. But mercifully I’m still doodling. And since this IS the New Normal—I’m gonna push myself to post a few from yesterday. Maybe get some get up n go back. https://www.instagram.com/p/CXctQTHL7x4/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Painted using a photo reference I don’t have anymore, or perhaps it’s a composite of photo and made up or perhaps all just remembered and with no figure drawing training. Painted during the only class at ubc in the early 90s where we were allowed to draw and paint figures. So far I’d done that plenty in the the printmaking side of things with the awesome Barbara Sunger. But I’d just had to drop out of the 4th year drawing class because the prof “couldn’t encourage rendering with a pencil.“ it could be installations or piles of sand or snow or chairs or even photocopies. (Ask if you want to see a comic about that and universe willing I will try.) My hopes went up when this prof talked about canvasses and paint and brushes. Pencils ok? I asked. He would probably have suggested charcoal, but I made this part up. You get the point. I painted this from a photo or a slide I no longer have. one of the very few I’d taken during my 2 years in Nigeria. Its a terrible painting for lots of reasons but looking back I’m struck by how much more terrible it could have been and how it had my heart in it. I threw it out in the 2nd or 3rd move after that in one of those “objects and sketchbooks and journals are just objects don’t get sentimental just get rid of that clutter” imposter controlled moods. Just recently I came across this photo of it in an unsorted box from two moves ago. I realized I had continued to think about Fixing Nigeria through this motorcycle repair scene and painted a larger version years later. I’ll post that one next. #fixingnigeria #motorcyclerepair #baturia #nigerianmotorcyclerepair #numannigeria https://www.instagram.com/p/CW2JNykLoSW/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#grouptherapy #fountainpenlove #haspotential #ohshesdead #lovetheoneyourewith #theunwantedbits #imnotokayneitherareyou #apparently #thesedarktimes #whattimeisitmrwolf #helpmerhonda https://www.instagram.com/p/CVzNjzhL8QS/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#WARANDPEACE #Tolstoy #Tolstoytogether #grouptherapy #onlythelonely #somuchpotential #ohshesdead #lovetheoneyourewith #crisishotline #theresagreatbook As I quietly come unhinged and at the same time realize that must be fate or God, I imagine returning to group therapy. Oh yeah #grouptherapy. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVzK5n5rOXO/?utm_medium=tumblr

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But will I finish this rough crap? #whinging #whining #fishingfor #roughsketch And can I add the single panels? https://www.instagram.com/p/CVuKKQWLxE4/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Will I ever finish? #distracted #newyorker https://www.instagram.com/p/CVuGaPhLBlE/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I’m reading from my first book Fadimatu to Nigerians and friends at A UBC Nigerian Association gala. Looks like the outfit I sewed with Parmata Ishaya’s sewing machine in Numan Nigeria “goes” with the jacket of Fadimatu. “Why no scycrapers?” Teased my Nigerian boyfriend. (I had lived the the far north-east, already hard done by then and now floods and no crops and ever-morphing terror from without preying, I guess, on the desperation of those within-especially the less literate. ). Small world huh. #naija #numannigeria #fadimatu #jennifermitton #dutchwax #singersewingmachine #ubcnigerianassociation #goodtimes #goodtimeswithnigerianfriends #vancouverwriter #cusonigeria # celibatesunderstressoverseas https://www.instagram.com/p/CVZQxp8lNNN/?utm_medium=tumblr

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When I went bank to numan Nigeria to bust and vet my semi final draft of my first novel Fadimatu with my Nigerian friend I’d hung out with in my two years living there. #fadimatu #numan #gongolastate #nigerian #bestoftimes https://www.instagram.com/p/CVZC1t2JMag/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#inktober #gestures #gesturedrawing #sketchbooks #comics #lyon #filleaupair #aupair #penandink #noeraser #jennifermitton #notrecanadienne. #notregrossecanadienne. #citron #citroen #greekboyfriend #jennifermitton #frenchboyfriend #somuchfun #inthosedays ##roevswade Time of my life with other foreign pals— notably Jane, Dana, Oona, Ellen. Mostly in line at the beside the Faculte mme candys patisserie (heeeuge pains au chocolat French girls shared between ten? While we walked the dusty noisy streets (they were building the metro) and mooned about our “families” and meeting only guys who were foreigners like ourselves )all this deserves a light-hearted comic.. will I ever put my fire and ice breathing dragons to sleep long enough to write and draw it???? Increasingly unlikely. It’s true I was a complete blank blank (fill in anything really dismissive, that oughta do it). But I had hope. Not long term hope. Just that I might get them to turn on my hot water if I was perfect enough for their incomprehensible standards. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUwAc4SlspS/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#anotherfathead. #lifedrawing ##inktober #fountainpen #geeky #penandink #basicinquiry #jennifermitton https://www.instagram.com/p/CUtq9yHL1LR/?utm_medium=tumblr