Gentle worlds… That’s all I want for Christmas.
December 4, 2021
Do you know how stockings come neatly folded around a cute piece of round edged glossy cardboard? Well, now you do. I hold on to those and make them into custom birthday cards.
January 12, 2021
Put the paint out. Let the brush strokes happen. They come to you and you don’t have to command them. The texture is what I like the most about these. So much fun.
I feel like I know these people. To get to know them even better, maybe someday I should write a story about each of them. Someday. They are definitely curious people. That much I know for sure.
Camping, sketches and watercolors. I was fortunate enough to spend a week kayaking around breathtaking islands of the PNW.
I created this sample of illustrations to respond to a call by my favorite podcast: Radio Ambulante. If you are a Spanish speaker, go check it out. It is truly wonderful.
Napkin narratives tell stories of things I’ve observed, things I’ve made up and things I’ve felt deeply. I challenge myself to write each narrative in less than three sentences. It makes it fun.
I once made a ceramic hedgehog. Then I drew that hedgehog with a goal to make a birthday card. Instead, I ended up making this set of five un-birthday cards.
Smiling with heart and soul and letting none of it show is one of the unexpected skills I developed through my experience as a pre-K teacher. Only some of the uplifting gems suit the postcard format, but I gathered enough for a decent collection.
This could very well be the first of them all. The first of this kind of collection. It was an assignment in college and I don’t remember all the details. I know I painted three small pieces, but the professor had asked for one big one. I loved the name of the class: “Color and Composition”, simply.
