Hello everyone!

It has been more than a month after the switch from Google's Blogger platform. Seems that most of the readers from the old blogspot site have shifted over. Currently, Parka Blogs has about 170 regular readers on site per day. That's pretty amazing to me and I would like to thank all the regular readers for coming back!!

Alright, the purpose of this post is to open up some conversation and gather some feedback on the new site, to see if any improvements can be made.

So here are some questions:

France grew up in France but now lives outside of Newark, New Jersey. She is a high school French teacher and hasn't taken an art class since she was in seventh grade.

You can view her work at her blog, www.wagonized.typepad.com. She has links there to her sketch galleries on Flick.

Source: An Illustrated Life

Rick grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, earned a BA from Calvin College and an MFA from the University of Illinois. After a year in New York, he is now a full-time artist in Grand Rapids where he and his wife, Brenda, home school their six children. His work can be seen at https://studiobeerhorst.com and at www.eyekons.com.

Source: An Illustrated Life

Peter grew up in Scotland, completed a degree in illustration at Saint Martins School of Art and Design and an MA at the Royal College of Art, both in London, and now lives in New York where he is a freelance illustrator for books, magazines and ads. He shares an office with his wife, writes and draws a column in Print magazine, and occasionally publishes "Peter Arkle News," a zine of his illustrated journals.

For more of his work, visit www.peterarkle.com.

Source: An Illustrated Life

Mattias grew up in a small suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, then moved to Gothenburg to study architecture and earn an MFA in graphic design at HDK School of Design and Crafts. He has had various career as a freelance illustrator, children's book author, animator and video game designer. He now lives in one of Sweden's oldest towns, the thousand-year-old Sigtuna.

To see more of his work, visit www.mattiasa.blogspot.com. He has a lot of ink and watercolour sketches on site.

Source: An Illustrated Life

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