ARTIST JOURNAL | Notes from the studio
Inspiration, new work, and stories about life and travel.
What Is A Lookbook?
Last month I decided to move my business away from marketing and focus on graphic design, specifically lookbook and press, media, sales kit design. While the word "lookbook" is common among many fashion and design bloggers and other creatives in...
You Can’t Spell Freelance Without Fear
Last summer Jessica Amos invited me to share a story on her lovely and thoughtful site Stay With Yourself. While we often see and hear the awesome things about living life as a freelance creative, choosing this path isn't without its pitfalls. It...
Cuckoo Clock Case Study | Lilla Rogers Make Art That Sells Class Assignment 1
One of the things that I'm doing this year to improve my design skills and further build my graphic design portfolio is taking the Lilla Rogers Studio Assignment Bootcamp Class. The first assignment was to design an iPhone case that included a...
My Abstract Painting for We Are The Contributors | Beginnings
Sandra and I published our second We Are The Contributors project last week. The theme for this round was Beginnings. I dusted off my acrylic paints and created an abstract painting on a 2' x 3' canvas I'd been lugging around since 2007. Now you...
Daily Design Inspiration From Earth
You know when you see things and find them so awesome that you reflexively inhale sharply? That's what I did when I learned about Daily Overview from this article on White Spaces. Daily Overview provides us with images shot from the Overview...
Art I Heart: Hannah Adamaszek
Last fall I received an email from UK artist Hannah Adamaszek who shared her awesome work with me. Hannah's colorful portraits of strong women bring a feminine edge to the traditionally male-dominated world of street art. In 2012 Hannah took part...
Seattle Refined, An Interview on Wise Craft Handmade, and Projects
Seattle Refined, the new Seattle lifestyle blog from KOMO News, launched yesterday and I'm freelancing as their interior design/decor contributor. Three of my pieces are on the site now and there will be more to come soon! Today I'm going to be in...
Happy 5th Birthday, Inward Facing Girl!
Yesterday my "baby" (that's older than my actual "baby" and my marriage) turned five. I can't believe that I've been blogging in this space for five years now! And woah...have things changed. The first time I clicked publish I was a completely...
My Creative Journey: The Outside Looking In
When I was 19 years old I started hanging out with artists, writers, musicians, and designers. At the time I wasn't producing any work of my own, or even really conscious that I'd surrounded myself with creative types. I spent a lot of time hanging...