I mentioned that I would show and tell what I was going to submit to Nahcotta for the show opening in February. The show is called the Enormous Tiny Art Show, and all art has to be small.
They invited me to be part of the show just as I had started a series of artworks […]

what if there was no such thing as “one shot”?
if you could always find an escape route?
what if you tried it?
and succeeded beyond your wildest imagination?
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This is what came out last yesterday/last night as a result of createathon. I am really happy with it and had SO - MUCH - FUN (!) working on this…

Right after I blogged about it yesterday, Riggs called and said to come in for the meeting. I learned that they had named the park art […]

I am DONE (!) with all the artwork for this solo show. In the end, I decided to reuse one older piece and two oversized prints from a previous show. So in all I have ended up creating 21 pieces of art in the last month. More than exhausting. But I feel really good about […]

just a quick entry today to show you another piece I’ve been working on… I worked on a painting yesterday that just WOULD NOT TURN OUT… I got so frustrated that I smeared black paint all over it and yelled at it and pulled its hair (cat fight!). Then I started tearing it to shreds. […]

(11×15, mixed medium)
14 paintings finished (two are being re-used from other shows), 6 more to go. I finally caught up with myself over this week. Painting this much has been a bit crazy (read: major ups and downs in outlook), but fun… yesterday I really played with some new techniques and came up with the […]

August this time around seems to be all about work. I am beginning to think that artists who do a lot of shows tend to have work laying around that they can ship off if called upon. I don’t. So this weekend was more painting. This time for the show in Nashville (also opening in […]

This piece was inspired by last week’s Illustration Friday topic: Moon.

(14×18″, mixed media on paper)

Here’s a project I’ve worked on recently under the radar. A design project! Oh my… how I’ve missed design. I truly love it… the thought process behind the work, connecting with people through different ideas and materials, etc. I do that with illustration, too, I suppose, but I sometimes miss doing blown out campaigns that […]

(piece for Balt Sun, mixed media)
I got back from my mom’s on Monday afternoon and have been hustling to get caught up since. Funny how quickly those emails can pile up. The trip was really wonderful. It’s always a re-centering and a more objective look at things when I hang out with my mom. A […]

(approx 20×24″, mixed media on paper)
Happy Friday everyone! Above is the 4th painting for the show in September. I am not sure why she looks so sad… but I have been staring at her from across the room and every time I look at her I imagine a different story that leads up to this […]

Here’s the third piece I just finished for the show. Still unsure about titles… so for now, it’s temporarily called “pink”.

(approx 20×24″, mixed media on paper)
Show details: Opening September 7th (the day after my birthday!) in Indianapolis Indiana at the Harrison Center. The show is part of the Curious City event sponsored by my old […]

You guys uplift me so much! Thank you for all your kind responses to painting #1.
Here is the second in the series…

(approx 19″x29″, mixed media on paper)
So much going on right now. I’ll keep it short, but I have so much bubbling I’d like to share with you… soon I hope!
xo

I have been really trying to limit the number of gallery shows I take on each year because they are so time consuming… I have to fight my tendency to say yes to everything because I’m so excited about the possibilities. But I know it’s not good for me because I think that the good […]

having fun scribbling cause beauty is often times in the mess…

Also updated my work section with a bunch of new goodies. (Updating your site is a great way to work when you don’t feel creative… an hour or two of brackets and inane symbols makes me want to paint again.)
And I’ve been playing around with […]

This week’s IF topic is “Remember”.
Balt Sun commissioned this piece as a memorial story for a coworker of theirs who had passed last year. I had a really hard time trying to honor that… such a tender story. I did not want to do a straight portrait of her (I don’t do portraits well), but […]

It’s like a freight train barreling down the tracks full speed. Working and doing this much all the time. I feel sometimes like I’m addicted to this fast pace… hurling my energy forward constantly. Living on momentum and adrenaline, and hardly ever stopping to just breathe and be. (And yes, I do art for a […]

One of the jobs I’ve been working on is a poster for the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA. The museum approached me and said that this was to be the first new Emily Dickinson image released since they celebrated the 100th anniversary of her death in 1986. (Um, no pressure!) It was to raise […]

I am probably supposed to be all cool and like: “Yeah, I did a piece for the NYT op-ed. No biggie.” but I’m secretly doing a little wiggle dance with my index fingers bobbing around in the air. hee! I was thrilled they called and thrilled that I was able to do a piece they […]

Fourth episode is up… (final painting stage)
(and a chance to see one of my new pieces that I haven’t blogged about here yet.)
Gotta get back to work… so much to do I feel a little insane…

Third episode is up… (finished sketch phase)
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Sorry… still no time for a real post. Still swamped. Soon though. I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Second episode is up… (rough sketch phase)

Design Sessions: Notes on Design has asked me to be a guest blogger on their site this week. Their audience is mainly design students and those just entering the field, so I thought it would be fun and relevant to walk them through how the illustration processs works… from project beginning to final art. And […]

Thanks for all your compliments on the new banner… it was definitely time for some spring pink, don’t you think? I’m ready for the flowers to say hello.
Here is the piece that I cut up to create the banner:

This is a piece done for the Baltimore Sun about a bride-to-be that was hesitant to immerse […]

Wanna see some of the goodies I’ve been working on? I just updated the Work section of my site. (click refresh if you don’t see new stuff.)
I think I’m finally starting to hit a stride in my work. A confidence and peace with it. I know more solidly what I do and what I can […]

Still not caught up on sleep… we’ve been working to get the house in some kind of order for Colin’s mom, who is visiting this weekend (and bringing curtains she made for us! sweet!). The house is coming along–just really slowly due to illustration work (flow again, yay!). I’ve been doing a lot of work […]

Tonight I am dropping everything where it is and heading to LA for the Girly Show. (Maybe taking a step away for the weekend will be refreshing.)
In all the chaos of moving, I forgot to photograph the final paintings before I shipped them off. (oops) I’ll have to photograph them there, I guess. But I […]

I got word yesterday that two of my pieces were accepted into the 49th Society of Illustrators annual, due out in ‘07. The pieces chosen are below…

The first one is a piece I did for Riggs Advertising. It was for a campaign to help homeless families with a long-term program that provides housing and […]

It’s been quiet here on the blogfront, huh. I’ve been so busy working lately that I haven’t been online much (save for uploading new images to the Black and Orange contest). I am planning on going on a little road trip with my brother starting the middle of next week, so I’ve been cramming all […]

Well, it’s officially fall. And I promised new prints this fall, so I’d better get on it.
Will you help me choose which two or three to print? I have all the candidates below… please leave a comment with your top three faves and I’ll tally them up for new prints!
Thanks friends!

Cast your vote in the […]

Colin started his new job last week, writing for a new agency called Riggs. Riggs does this really cool thing called CreatAthon, where once a year they take on a dozen or so not-for-profits that could use some help and they stay up all night working on campaigns for them. This year’s CreatAthon fell on […]

This piece was created for a story that ran in the Baltimore Sun. The author recalls Hurricane Hazel of 1954. She was a little girl when the hurricane hit and had to run home from school when the weather got bad enough for the nuns to dismiss them. She ran the mile to her home […]

Take a deep breath and let it go. Let it go. Let it go…

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Here is one of the paintings I completed while in SC. It was for the Baltimore Sun… a story about a woman who remembers going to girl scout camp when she was ten years old.
I liked painting this one because I played with different borders before landing on the branches (I don’t normally do borders […]