It never ceases to amaze me all the talent that there is on Etsy. There are some incredibly crafty and artistic people out there, all selling their goods via Etsy. Nearly ever time I log in, I find s...
I am a fountain pen addict. Theres just something about them that makes drawing even a simple line so much more fun and exciting. Albeit theres more potential for screwing it up but they definitely f...
Time for a super quick (and cheap) DIY! Id been wanting to buy a mini notebook for all my list making but couldnt validate buying something I could easily make. And so was born the paper bag notebook...
Before 10 am this morning, I never would have linked those two things together. Home school and honeybees made for an entertaining artsy day.I recently started helping out with home schooling a very ...
A quickie for Illustration Fridays theme this week: faded. Instantly reminded me of my faded and destroyed favorite pair of jeans. I swear Im going to wear them to shreds. And big happy news! My...
I love objects. Always have, always will. I love arrangements of objects too. And I love small objects. Re-purposing&nbs p;found objects is always a joy too. And above all, I love practical objec...
Sketches from my little mini sketchbooks this week...
I recently got a commission on Etsy to make another Giant Handmade Card. This one was for a lovely lady out in New York. It was commissioned for her boyfriends birthday. After tossing some ideas...
Time for my other art love, location drawings. I was first introduced to the term through the group/site Urban Sketchers. I became a member a few years ago and its a constant inspiration to look...
Productive day (off)! No real work today, so the other work got done! Prints of my Revisit: Paris piece are in the Etsy shop! And! New Pearl Snap colors arrived!!!!!!The new colors are:&nbs...
Finished up another watercolor for my Revisit Project. The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France! The Trevi Fountain and Castiglion pieces are still works in progress. Hoping to get a print of it in my ...
Printed/edited a few more sketches from the giant Euro sketchbook. Ive started watercoloring them and bouncing between the sketches. Its a depressing but slightly happy thing to revisit all these ske...
Writing and sketching, then writing and sketching some more. Not sure why but today I decided to try and tackle a bunch of story commissions Ive had gathering up...6 to be exact. Eep! And of course i...
Alrighty, another Friday favorite! This artist is pretty different from Serenas book and paper works I featured last Friday. Seeing as her canvas lately has been human skin...Im been in love with&nbs...
More prints! Today I made some prints of Lumen and Tuttles, and of my watercolor revisit piece of Venice! Hooray!!! All of them are up in my Etsy shop too!
Eek! Prints! At last! Ive been working on some print versions of a few of my illustrations...& lovely owl is back! Only this time shes not declaring how damned lovely she thinks she is...It was f...
Alright...so I dont completely hate this experiment so far. Last night I edited my sketch I did of Venice and printed it out on watercolor paper. Very strange to be looking at this sketch larger and ...
A quickie for Illustration Fridays theme this week: kernel!Strange topic, but I rather like the result of it, and the results of the kernels themselves.Art tangent. I miss location drawing. A lot. I ...
Buona Festa della Mamma! Happy Mothers Day! Which also means, more giant cards! Made this one for my own madre....I made a couple other cards up for Mothers Day for a few friends...lots of heart...
Been trying to do more location drawings lately. Here a couple Ive done these past few weeks. Lots of spring flowers.Poppies! And some very scientific and technical names for some flowers...I was bab...
Such a lovely day already! To wake up and check out All Things Paper and see my giant wedding card featured on there! Stoked!!! Definitely made my day, and its barely 8 am! Ive been meaning to do thi...
Occasionally, I start a project and instantly regret doing so. I know immediately from the get-go that its going to A. take forever, B. drive me crazy, C. have horrific results, or potentially in thi...
Theres a lot happening lately! A lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous...This past weekend I participated in the Mothers Day gathering at the C Gallery. It went really well! I sold a bunch...
I was comissioned by my friend Kelly to make a card for a wedding she is going to soon. I made a giant collage card for the occasion...it has layers of watercolored paper, graph paper, colored paper ...
I want Lumen done and in print. I want to be able to hold her in my hands as a finished product instead of a handful of watercolors. I want her in my Etsy shop and on bookshelves.I want all of this.....
Friendship bracelets are addictive. You can never just make one or wear only one! I like that theres a frenzy surrounding them again, but I think they also need to be brought off the p...
i. miss. italy.I spent so much time uploading my sketches of Europe that I rarely looked back over my photos and took the time to share them on here. Time to remedy that. Heres a little pee...
This summer, one of the workshops I will be teaching is Printmaking so Ive been researching different methods of basic printing since we wont have access to an acid room or litho stones or anything l...
How is it May?! That just kind of snuck up when I wasnt looking...It has now been 14 weeks, almost 4 months since I started my list of 24 before 25, 24 goals I would like to accomplish...
After working all day yesterday, then babysitting for most of the evening, I still HAD to start playing with my new lovely pearl snaps! And so, here they are! New colors!!!!In the first pho...
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