ARTIST JOURNAL | Notes from the studio
Inspiration, new work, and stories about life and travel.
Mood Board Monday: Gravity
Today I used a drawing that I made in the Abstract Composition workshop. Read more about my experience in the class, see other pieces that I created, and find out about my future art school plans! Left: Untitled abstract pastel drawing, August...
Abstract Composition: Color Studies at Gage Academy of Art
"Explore the ways in which color impacts composition. Create a suite of collages in response to compositional problems, and use those studies as references for color interpretations executed in pastels. The work of modern and contemporary artists...
Summer 2014 in Pictures
Mood Board Monday: Melancholia
THEME: MELANCHOLIA Left: Photograph by Sharyn Cairns. Image via Trendland. Right:A Costume Drama featuring Michelle Dockery. Photograph by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot for LOVE Magazine FW 2012. Mood Board Monday is a weekly coast-to-coast art...
What It’s Like To Float In A Sensory Deprivation Tank
In one word, AWESOME. In more words, see my article on floating in a sensory deprivation tank at Seattle Refined. I'm definitely going to try this again! I've been busy settling into a new content creation gig after my trips to L.A. and the Olympic...
Mood Board Monday: Still
THEME: STILL Left: Photo by Katherine Westerman Right: Still Life Photo by Ania Wawrzkowicz Mood Board Monday is a weekly coast-to-coast art direction collaboration with Nancy Herrmann. See more of our mood boards here.
Obsession: A Love Note to Cherry Bombe Magazine
Warning: Severe gushing below. I remember the first time I saw Cherry Bombe magazine. I was hanging out at my favorite place in PCC (the magazine stand) waiting for my husband and son who were grocery shopping. The bright, artfully overexposed...
Mood Board Monday: Heat Wave
THEME: HEAT WAVE Left: Image via Natural History Design Studio. Right: The Ancients. Photo by Laurie Bartley for Vogue UK. Mood Board Monday is a weekly coast-to-coast art direction collaboration with Nancy Herrmann. See more of our mood boards...
Inspiration: Fashion Photography by Erwin Blumenfeld
By the time you read this post, I will have had a post-L.A./Disneyland sensory deprivation tank float (For real! More on that later.) and I'll be on my way to the Olympic Peninsula to celebrate Nathaniel's FOURTH (!!!) birthday with a...