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I made a clock! Who knew? It's for a show of artist clocks at Pony Club in downtown Portland. The opening is this Thursday, July 2. You can check out last year's clocks here. I can't wait to see what this year's artists have come up with!
Turning a digital print into a clock turned out to be a bigger challenge that I expected, but I'm really happy with the results. And now I'm off to the Pony Club to drop off my work.
I've been going through some of my dad's old photos lately in an effort to find some family photos for our walls.
I used to be a slightly creepy little girl.
Now I'm a slightly creepy adult. Ah, life...
This week, I have two drawings for Illustration Friday. My first one had something to do with hair drifting upwards or gravity drifting somewhere or something doing something. I like the drawing, but by the time it was done, it seemed like quite a stretch, so now it's simply named "Hair Bow".
I decided to figure out something that was a little tad more obvious for the theme, so I came up with this:
It makes me think of "drifting" out of my shoes at the end of a long day at work and wandering around the apartment barefoot while relaxing. Ahh... (Until, of course, I stumble across a hairball or other lovely present from the kitties.)
They're both a bit different from what I normally do, which is what I love about Illustration Friday. The prompts always spark an idea that is something new and that I have not done before, so I have to think a bit outside my little box to execute them. I often worry that new pieces will be too far from my regular style and thus will alienate the fan base I have built up over the years, but then I remember how vastly different Picasso's works were and settle on telling myself that I'm simply in my rose period.
And now I'm off to eat some (hopefully) delicious yak burgers that Kieran has prepared. I love the crazy foods you can find at the various Portland farmer's markets.
As soon as I read the topic for this week's Illustration Friday, I couldn't stop thinking about this creepy fuzzball doing a plie (which literally translates to folded) and grand jete.
Pant! Pant! What a week!
I wound up having to work overtime at the day job last week, and boy am I tired! At least I managed to catch up a bit today, and I have a ton of new button designs to share!
Splitting up the button designs into sets is one of my favorite parts. Some of them are obvious, and some are less so. I suppose it's just the obsessive compulsive disorder forcing me to enjoy organization. Or perhaps it's just a human instinct. Or maybe I just like things that look pretty together!
All of these sets will be available in the shop, which will be updated throughout the week. Plus, I hope to have magnets available soon. (If for no other reason than that I really need to get rid of my ugly plain refrigerator magnets. :)
I'm not too far on this embroidery, but it, and five more like it, will be done by the end of June. I really don't have much to say these days, but I'm toiling away on lots of little projects (and having a lot of fun doing so). For some reason, though, I don't seem to have the energy to talk about them. Even Kieran has no idea what it is that I'm doing.
P.S.: Does anyone know why red tends to look awful when saved for the Web? Frustrating considering the fact that it's my favorite color. (Well, okay, one of my seven favorite colors.)
What better way to show your appreciation than with a bee who has a note tied to his stinger? I jotted this fun little design in my sketchbook at work the other day, and I couldn't help but make thank you notes with it.
One of the most exciting things about making stationery and other paper goods is coming up with professional presentation. It makes me feel like a grown up artist.
This little buzzer is now available in my Bee's Knees shop.
I've had a blast these past few weeks coming up with crafty items to fill my Etsy shop, and I have quite a few more up my sleeve. In fact, seven new items are just waiting for their supplies to come in. They can hardly wait!
