Flowershop Sunshine Cherry Pop

All finished! This is a 24×30 gallery wrapped canvas painted with acrylics and overlaid with intricate line work done in opaque paint pens. Its all listed up in my etsy shop too! Sometimes it is hard to draw the first lines of the illustration onto the canvas. Especially after you really work at getting just [...]

….in progress…..a 24 x 30″ gallery wrapped canvas painted with acrylics…stay tuned.

This artwork is the painter’s equivalent of a writer’s mind dump. You get all these thoughts swirling in your head and have an almost physical need to get them out on paper, or in this case-computer screen, since i made the art using my favorite toy. My Wacom Intuos4 Graphics tablet and stylus. Oh man! [...]

Doodling on the graphics tablet again…this was a super interesting and tedious exercise. Putting aside pencil and paper and scanner is so foreign to me! But in this piece i wanted to do something that felt handmade and clean at the same time, would have imperfect shapes and scribbly textures, while still looking crisp. And [...]

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 [...]

Hey gang, here’s just a quickie post because i burned the midnight oil last night on a super exciting project…..which i can finally share on thursday! Today i’ll share with you this little ditty. A giraffe illustration in my colorful, twirly style that was commissioned by Green As Wee Grow. It’s the final piece in [...]

Last week i received a lovely email from a man who had seen a past art exhibit of mine and bought some of the pieces for his daughters. He mentioned that seeing one of my art pieces on the wall as he was tucking his daughter in one night gave him an inspired idea for [...]

…a little something for everyone. A mix of all my favorite colors, combined into my favorite pattern which is used to fill the words in this little ditty for the indecisive and crazy ambitious little girl (or not so little girl) in your life. It’s never too early to start dreaming big about what makes [...]

Tables are turned. Sometimes when you’re trying to paint one thing…another emerges. A Happy Accident. i’d like to give a free 8×10 print of any piece of art in my etsy shop to the first reader who can correctly tell the story behind this art. How do you think it was it made? What materials [...]