missing paris, huit

missing the doors of paris.

abstract april

favourites from april for my daily abstract project on instagram, #anabstractaday: days 97, 98, 100, 104, 108, 110, and 113

la fin

Just wanted to let you know this is the last week for orders of my une fleur à chaque jour books (vols 1 to 4) which will only be available online from now until the end of April. Each handmade...

little paper planes

Very excited to announce that my little book of fireworks zine is now available via Little Paper Planes of San Francisco. I've been a fan of their beautifully curated site and blog for quite a...

mothers are giving

mothers are giving. they just are, right? sometimes you don't even see how much giving goes on, really. it's incalculable. and even if they're not right near you and you don't see them all the...

flora lately

from the top: adrianus johannes zwart hermanus adrianus bogman róże w kulistym wazonie, alfons karpinski chelsea embankment, plane trees, paul maitland, 1908 summer landscape, iwan trusz, early...

what

i have been wanting to begin a series of posts for a while now to show what i've been finding out lately. what i've liked reading, what i've been coveting, what i've liked looking at, what made me...

abstract march

my favs from march for my daily abstract project on instagram, #anabstractaday: days 60, 62, 69, 77, 82, 84, and 85 you can find me on instagram: @sheilaforde

primavera

I got lost in this painting this morning. Primavera, painted by Sandro Botticelli in 1482. If you like, you can zoom and view it really close-up and spectacularly here. Supposedly there are 500...

missing paris, sept

scenes from our first stroll down the champs-elysées, that one day, all the way from the place de la concorde to the arc de triomphe.

painted ladies

i decided to welcome spring with some colourful painted ladies. this is a series of small original works created with gouache and archival ink fine art pen. i've loved discovering the personalities...

happy international women's day

happy international women's day to all my international sisters out there

the women of fernand khnopff

i came across these late 19th/early 20th century works a little while ago and i devoured them. their eyes! the subtlety of the works is just ethereal and chock full of mystery. and so i immediately...

abstract february

my favs from february for my daily abstract project on instagram, #anabstractaday: days 32, 36, 38, 39, 43, 44, & 59 you can find me on instagram: @sheilaforde

waltz for debby

one of his favourites for the love of my life on his birthday today. i love you, geoff.

blushy

i just had to share a conversation that was had at the dinner table tonight that basically made me cry-laugh/hyperventilate for about 5 straight minutes and i fell off my chair. i literally could...

little book of roses zine

i just added a little book of roses zine to my online shops for the romantic in you. i took these images on two separate afternoons in the rose garden of the park around the corner from me, one...

abstract, week 5

29 and 32. i think i may start sharing my favs from each week at the end of each month now. it's a bit busy around here.

missing paris, six

that time geoff surprised me by taking me to hear a pianist play my favourite, chopin, in the middle of the luxembourg gardens.

abstract, week 4

22 and 27.

an ending and a beginning

to launch the fourth and final book of my daily illustration project for 2012, une fleur à chaque jour (a flower every day), i decided to simultaneously open a new etsy shop under my own name (i...

abstract, week 3

15 and 20.

flora lately

from the top: fleurs dans un vase bleu, paul cézanne, 1880 still life, joseph nigg, 1870 marie renard, circa 1930 white roses, henri fantin-latour, 1875

abstract, week 2

11 and 14.

missing paris, cinq

been very under the weather the last few days so i thought i'd post some more of my photos from my paris trip to cheer me up. here are some lovely ladies, all from musée carnavalet, a museum of the...

abstract, week 1

After I completed my une fleur à chaque jour daily illustration project, I debated starting another illustration-based daily project as it was a pretty involved one time-wise and I want to focus on...

a nice long break

I took a nice long break from work over the holidays and we had our first family vacation in two years, which was not so much a break for Geoff and I as it was the main xmas gift to our boys, who...

une fleur à chaque jour ~ no. 366

As this is my final flower for my daily illustration project, une fleur à chaque jour, I thought I would write a little post about the journey. For me, personally, this project was very rewarding...

une fleur à chaque jour ~ no. 365

une fleur à chaque jour ~ no. 364