ARTIST JOURNAL | Notes from the studio
Inspiration, new work, and stories about life and travel.
Outtakes: At Home With Dottie Angel’s Tif Fussell
Last month I had the great pleasure of catching up with my friend Tif Fussell and writing a story about her inspiring home and "atelier-of-sorts" for Seattle Refined. You might know Tif as her crafty alter ego, Dottie Angel. It's hard to describe...
Mood Board Monday: Waiting
THEME: WAITING Left: Photo by The Cat You and Us Right: The Whaling Widow. Photo by Caroline Knopf. Image via Behance. Mood Board Monday is a weekly coast-to-coast visual creative collaboration exercise in art direction with Nancy Herrmann.
Mood Board Monday: Sole Mates
THEME: SOLE MATES Left: Photograph by Jesse Chamberlin for Designlovefest Right: Photograph by Andrea Spotorno for 10 Magazine (10 Men) Mood Board Monday is a weekly coast-to-coast visual creative collaboration exercise in art direction with Nancy...
Inspiration: Interior Stylist Tina Hellberg
I'm pretty sure that I first learned about Swedish interior stylist Tina Hellberg from this lovely post on The Artful Desperado about the Swedish Elle Decoration online image archive. I fell in love with her stellar styling work instantly, along...
Summer Art Sale
I'm going to keep this short and sweet. I'm having a summer art sale! I'm in the mood to clear out all of my existing work and start fresh in the fall, so I've priced ORIGINAL collages and abstract watercolor paintings (not prints!) at $75 or less....
Mood Board Monday: Objectify
THEME: OBJECTIFY Left: Historic Problem, (2013) by Urs Fischer. Photo by Mats Nordman. Right: Jello Mold, (2013). Painting by Arnout Van Albada. Mood Board Monday is a weekly coast-to-coast visual creative collaboration exercise in art direction...
Inspiration: Color Block Architecture by Luis Barragán
I'm super inspired by color and I love color blocking. It's even more of a bonus when it comes in the form of modern architecture. These buildings were created by Mexican architect Luis Barragán. Most, if not all, of these shots are from the late...
Art + Object: Blue with Sergei Sviatchenko + Kelly Wearstler
Between Mood Board Monday and my latest column Art + Object, you can probably guess that one of my favorite things to do is putting together complementary images to craft visual stories (aka, art direction.) So let's just get right to it! I first...
Mood Board Monday: Liquid Assets
THEME: LIQUID ASSETS Left: All That Glitters. Art direction, layout, set, and photographs by Jacob Reischel for 74 Mag - The Hair Bible, Issue 10. Image via Trendland. Right: Photo by Sølve Sundsbø. Image via L’ADN. Mood Board Monday is a weekly...