This past weekend was time for some experimenting. i found myself in the painting studio in the wee small hours just itching to open up all those dyes you see lined up on the easel. i dug through my stash of silks leftover from my old wedding gown design business and found a suitable piece [...]

My Flip HD camera was screwed to a mini tripod and said tripod was then wedged under a can of chalkboard paint on a shelf above my work station to capture this little video. Hey, whatever works, right? i’m experimenting with my new waterbrushes and creating a “color puddle” to use as background color/texture for [...]

  just messin with my new waterbrushes that i got for christmas.

This is the first growth chart in what will be a continuing series. i’ve had so many inquiries since posting a custom growth chart i painted on a wood board last year, and it has taken me some time to decide how i could offer them more affordably to the masses, both in production costs [...]

I sketched this portrait a while back. She has piercing eyes. She knows something you don’t. It’s killing you! You NEED to know. i pulled the sketch, which was done in colored pencil, black india ink and pastel pencil, into photoshop and had at it with my increasingly well-loved graphics tablet and stylus. It wasn’t [...]

i started this map of the USA this past summer and got to a certain point where i just stopped. i don’t know why? Maybe i got distracted by other work, maybe i needed a breather from all the close, detail work? i think maybe i ran out of ideas for patterns to draw in [...]

i love collaborating with creative people. Awesome things always emerge. The above illustration is one i recently completed for Ashley over at Lil Blue Boo. You may have read my recent post about how we collaborated on some kids dresses featuring one of my art prints. Anyway, Ashley asked if i’d do a little illustration [...]

This is my latest completed artwork. It is a marriage of 3 elements of my signature-style. Below, i’ll tell you how i made it, so you can make a similar piece if you’re feeling all artsy, and i’ll tell you where to get this one if you wanna to take the shorter route to splash [...]

Here are some photos of the finished artwork i’ve been posting about. BLOOM measures about 6″ in diameter. It is just precious in it’s teeny-ness! The underlay is a large, saturated, pastel painting that has been photographed and then printed in miniature on my Epson R2880. This printer uses a Vivid Magenta ink and i [...]