I hope everyone enjoys the pin as much as I enjoyed making it and learning about pseudoscorpions. I keep looking for them now everywhere I go!

I immediately imagined them as adventurous, Indiana-Jones type explorers. I also loved that they are ancient creatures and sometimes referred to as 'book scorpions.' I made several sketches exploring these concepts and in the end we landed on the book-reading one for the final pin design.

When I was asked to design a pseudoscorpion pin, I must admit I did not know much about these tiny creatures. After doing some research I fell in love with their ways of moving about by hitching a ride on larger animals. What daredevils!

My mind mostly functions as a giant caldron perpetually simmering a stew of almost anything I encounter in life. I live in Missoula, Montana and when I'm not drawing or designing, I am most likely riding my bicycle in the woods, camping, gardening or spoon carving.

I supplement this work with fun illustration projects and occasional gallery exhibits. My influences are the usual inspirational suspects - films, music, silent era cartoons, Eastern European stop-motion animation, comics, nature, dreams, reading, food, and work of other artists.

Definitely looks weird!

The audience response has been so great! We may have to make it a regular thing. :)