Creating a Composite Pattern From a Sketchbook Painting

Jan 29, 2016 | Creative Process, Illustration, Painting, Sketchbook

One of the best things about combining physical tools like gouache and watercolor sketchbooks with digital tools like Adobe Photoshop is the ability to merge different parts of paintings or patterns that you like into one image, or creating a composite image like the... Read More

My 2016 Word of the Year: Edit

Jan 4, 2016 | Creative Process, Fine Art, Illustration, Mindfulness, My Creative Journey, Painting

One of my new year’s rituals it to take everything off of my vision board / inspiration board / mood board (except for one of the Adventure Club illustrations that Kimberly Ellen Hall did for me) and start fresh. The Adventure Club remains because it’s the... Read More

Mood Board Monday: Untitled*

Nov 24, 2014 | Art Direction, Creative Projects, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Storytelling

THEME: UNTITLED* My talented Mood Board Monday partner Nancy Herrmann is creating a week of Untitled boards. We bring so much of our own personal experiences into how we perceive art and design, so labeling these pieces “Untitled” gives viewers a chance to... Read More

Fashionable Selby: Audrey Louise Reynolds

Apr 15, 2014 | Creative People, Creative Process, Storytelling

One of the first things that I did yesterday was watch Todd Selby’s film about artisan, painter, organic dyer, and gardener Audrey Louise Reynolds. Audrey is featured in Todd’s newest book, Fashionable Selby, and is one of the artists that I bookmarked to... Read More