completed work – lines and words

Lines+Words

The above art is a wood plank that has been decorated with strips of my art prints. Once dry and given one coat of dull poly, a sharpie marker was used to make the loose line drawing. White areas were added with gel pen and then thinner black ink verse was handwritten on each row [...]

works in progress – Paper flowers + wood + hook?

PaperFlowerWoodBlock1

Ok, imagine 2 hooks on the bottom of this wood block. Can you see it? i can. i still have to find the perfect hardware, but then this will be a precious little key hanger or, in my studio, probably a scissors hook or ribbon hook or whatever-else-needs-a-hook hook. i made some flowers out of [...]

completed works – hanging by a thread

HangingByAThread

hey everybody! after a hiatus that seemed much longer than it actually was, i’m back. technical difficulties. i’ll just say that we were experiencing technical difficulties. but here is my most recent completed work, “hanging by a thread.” it’s an ink drawing that i’ve scanned and colored digitally. i wanted a wispy, thin-lined work where [...]

lazy sunday – collaboration with a 4 year old

Ah, lazy Sunday. Today we did lots of work on the house and were pooped when evening came. So, my 4-year old son sat next to me at my art station and scribbled while i sketched. Liking the loose look of his scribbles, i asked him to make me some “circles” in a few different [...]

story behind the art – woodgrain profile series

MelonWoodgirlSq

Several months back i got the notion for this artwork. i love drawing tendrils and curves and curliques and wanted to do a stylized portrait series focusing on hair. For a long time, the idea was a bit fuzzy in my mind and i didn’t know exactly what i was shooting for. i started looking [...]

New Art work – “beautiful mess”

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 [...]