Hello friends and patrons! How's it going, did you have a nice weekend?
This weekend, from Thursday through Sunday, I had the joy of attending this year's EMERALD CITY COMIC CON, and I want to tell you all about it!
ECCC is Seattle's central annual comics and entertainment convention,...
2019-03-19 01:44:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello hello! Happy Sunday Patrons and friends! It's Ragon here with another weekly update!
How are you? Is it getting warm and sunny where you are? Seattle has been on and off cloudy and sunny. But on the sunniest days I get tricked in to wearing spring-y clothes only to find th...
2019-03-10 23:52:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello lovely darling Patrons, and happy March!
And happy ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY to my business and this Patreon! Can you all believe it? Thank you so much for being here, hooray!! To celebrate I have FINALLY updated my Patreon with all new post series, tiers, all new rewards, and all ne...
2019-03-03 22:24:46 +0000 UTC View PostHi friends, happy Friday!
Today I‘m taking my own advice of “just get started”. I am sweeping aside my self-consciousness and nervousness to share with you an AUDIO version of my w...
2019-02-22 22:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons, good afternoon, or good evening! Another Happy Sunday to you, another week on this earth in the books. I hope you had a great first week of February!
This week for me has been delightful, as Seattle has been hit by two snow storms in the past seven days, making it the s...
2019-02-10 22:16:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons, happy Friday! Welcome to another episode of.... Friday Thoughts with Ragonia! Where you can read all about the weekly inner workings of a slowly and painfully developing art business!
Okay, I say painfully, but it was a pretty good week, and a good month. I can't complain. Bu...
2019-02-01 23:58:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and friends and buddies and pals! A very happy Sunday to you, I hope you're having a lovely, cleansing January. I missed posting last week, I hope you didn't miss me talking about myself too much. Don't worry, I'm back again ready to share more than you'd ever want to know about thi...
2019-01-27 23:27:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Sunday from Sunny Seattle!
No kidding, my friends and patrons. As I type the sun shines in a perfect blue sky, and its been this way for most of the week. And of course that means all of the Seattelites walk with their dogs and families in their flannels and vests, or sit to bask in t...
2019-01-13 21:53:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patrons, happy Friday!!
For once I didn’t finish a piece in one sitting, so I hope you enjoy this lil super special sneak peek of a new draw this in your style challenge, by Lanajay_art on instagram!
And here’s the original that I’m referencing:
2019-01-12 01:49:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello Patrons, darlings, dears, friends, family, artists and art-curious. Happy happy happy 2019 to you! I hope you’ve had a lovely first week of the year, and have taken some time to reflect on 2018 and where you hope to take yourself in 2019.
The past week here at Ragonia studios has be...
2019-01-07 03:46:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and happy holidays! It has been a surprisingly busy end of the year and I’m sorry for my long absence. I wanted to give you a quickie update to remind you that I love you and am thinking of you! Quick because I am currently in my parents home in my hometown of Fredericksburg, Virg...
2018-12-28 15:49:28 +0000 UTC View Post
In all it’s messy crazy glory, for the first time in quite a while, I have for you a speed paint/ process video!
I decided to leave in a true part of the process for me, all of the experimental sketching before I decided on the final look for this gal. I sometimes feel like other artists are so ...
2018-12-09 16:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello Patrons, happy Friday, and happy first week of December! The month of the holidays, of my birthday, of coziness and darkness and chilliness. I hope you had a wonderful week! Did you set up a Christmas tree or menorah? Have you started your gift shopping/wrapping? Are you enjoying the set...
2018-12-07 20:11:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello lovely patrons, another happy Friday to you!
November is over, can you believe it? I'm normally connected enough to the present that it doesn't feel like time is whizzing by, but that's not the case with this season. It's been a busy busy month, and I'm excited to tell you all about it...
2018-11-30 19:29:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends and Patrons, and another Happy Friday to you! How are you, how’s it going?
Is it snowing where you live? It’s not snowing here, but the Seattle grey winter has arrived and smoke from the California wildfires along with it, so it is really starting to feel like winter. I’m...
2018-11-16 20:22:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Helloooo Patrons and friends! Happy November, and happy Friday! I come to you finally, FINALLY, filled with joy, pride, enthusiasm, and energy! After what felt like a month of negativity, I feel like I had a great win! Get ready for a long update because I have lots of pictures and lots of tho...
2018-11-02 21:51:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends and patrons! Another happy week to you! And another week that my weekend update turned into a beginning of the week update.
It’s felt like another relatively busy week, with unfortunately the thing falling behind has been my art practice. I’ve been trying to keep up with In...
2018-10-23 00:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons and friends! I hope you had a wonderful week and weekend!
I had a loooong weekend so this update will be very quick, we’ll be back to longer updates next weekend!
This week I continued to work on my daily Inktober updates! I kept up with the daily practice of making a marker ...
2018-10-15 22:07:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my darling friends and patrons! I hope that you had another happy week, and that you enjoyed the first days of October. As I write this rain is falling gently on the red and yellow leaves of the plants outside, high schoolers walk by on their way to school, car tires hiss and splash on the wet...
2018-10-05 20:13:37 +0000 UTC View Post
EDIT: A day late on this, I‘m sorry my dears!! Happy October!
Hello hello and Happy Sunday, happy last day of September! Happy day! It’s been a wonderful week here at Ragonia Art, and I can’t wait to tell you all about it!
First and possibly most exciting, I designed and ordered my fir...
2018-10-01 19:24:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons! Happy first days of Fall! Yesterday was the Autumn Solstice, but as you know it’s been Autumn in my heart for weeks now. How’s it going? Did you have a great, autumnal first week! Is fall anyone else’s favorite season? Let me know in the comments!
Okey dokey!! Let’s ge...
2018-09-24 02:52:11 +0000 UTC View Post
And one of my favorites! I hope you enjoy these fall themed wallpapers for you phone and tablet, and a tile image for your desktop! Let me know if you use one, I’d love to see!
2018-09-17 17:32:01 +0000 UTC
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Happy Sunday! Another week gone by, I hope it was a good one for you!
I’m writing to you, my friends and patrons, having just energetically cleaning my entire apartment with a classical record spinning on the record player I got for Christmas. A very aggressive classical record. Zach calls it ...
2018-09-17 03:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and friends and family! Another happy Sunday to you!
This was an alternately productive and un-productive week.
I kicked off the week with creating the sketch for a commission from one of my top repeat customers. She and her roommate have ordered three commissions and mul...
2018-09-10 01:26:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons, and happy Sunday! Or happy Labor Day! Or whatever day this letter finds you on!
Its been quite a busy week, and I’m coming close to completely missing an update this week. But I want to keep you all up to date with some of the goings on at Ragonia studios. So here’s a quick upda...
2018-09-03 03:25:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, Patrons and Friends! A very happy Friday to you from here in Ragonia: population 1.
Okay, population 2, as my studio manager stares me down angrily.
Today was a weird week for this inde...
2018-08-24 19:02:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again Patrons, happy Friday part 2!
Can you believe this is my 20th week of writing these little updates? Are you tired of me yet? Cause I‘m not tired of me!! Let’s go, twenty more weeks, and more!
How was your week? Are you super busy this summer, or has it bee pretty chill?...
2018-08-17 20:18:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi followers, happy Friday!
Your weekly newsletter is coming in an hour or so but in the meantime I thought you might be interested in a little speed paint video!
Procreate, the program I use on my iPad to do my illustrations, has recently added a few new features including a guided sy...
2018-08-17 18:39:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again, Patrons! Happy Sunday! I have a bit of a delayed newsletter for you this week because I wanted to cover my second art walk!
So this week’s focus was preparing for my second art show, this time in my home neighborhood of Ballard. The original paintings I did for the Fremont show are ...
2018-08-12 19:49:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons, happy Saturday! I decided to share this a day late so that I could update you all on my first show at Fremont Art Walk!
It’s been quite a whirlwind week preparing for my first show/market/Art Walk. I knew it would be busy but I didn’t anticipate so much detail work and errand wo...
2018-08-04 19:54:49 +0000 UTC View Post