A couple weeks ago I showed you a few shaving cream paintings that I did, and last week while I was doing the project with my art campers I decided to photograph the process (which I had to do quickly since I had 20 kids anxious & excited for their turn to make their own!)
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I LOVE seahorses.  I don’t know why, they’re so weird, I just do.  And I recently found one that I made a couple years ago, soo I thought I would share =)

Do you like it??  It took FOREVER and then I didn’t even end up turning it in (it was for a class) but I [...]

My flower painting, which I have been working on off & on for a while now, is not so much about flowers anymore (see how it started here.)  Here are a couple more in progress pictures…
And where it is now…
I don’t know.  I’m not sure how I feel about it right now, I’m just kind [...]

Hello hello =)
This weekend I have been hard at work painting, and have (mostly) enjoyed every minute of it.  Here is a little peek at an in-progress painting I have been working on…
And here is what it looked like a couple months ago when I first started working on it..

Haha.  I have ideas in mind [...]

Have any of you ever painted with shaving cream before?!  It’s a really interesting (and EASY) technique that I heard of recently, and last week I decided to try out.  Within just a few minutes (seriously, like, 5 minutes tops) I made these:
Cool, right??  I thought it would be a fun activity for my art [...]

Today I went to the Talbot Street Art Fair in Indianapolis, and I loved it.  There were over 270 artists there, including photographers, jewelers, painters, metal workers, potters, etc.  I saw so many things that I have never seen before and some simply beautiful and impressive artwork- I will definitely be back again next year!
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Lately my life has consisted mostly of hanging out with little kids and organizing, planning, and teaching them art (and then cleaning up their messes!)  I started my summer job as a counselor at an art camp, and so far I lovelovelove it.  The kids are HILARIOUS and they’ve made some really cool things (I [...]

As I was getting my teacher portfolio ready for a final project for class, I had to go back through my work to find what examples of my art I wanted to include.  I found this screen print from about a year and a half ago or so, and thought I would share it here [...]

Congratulations Nicole!!  (we have the same name !! haha)  Email me (nicoleioma at gmail) with your shipping info and I will get it to you as soon as I make your custom ACEO.  Hooraaaay =)
And just to make this post a little more interesting, here is a little sneak peak at the reflective journal I’ve [...]

As promised yesterday, here is my post on Inspiration for this little project.  Soo what inspires me?
Early Mornings.

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Coffee.

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Beauty.

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Art.

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Love.

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Nature.

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Lights.

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Plus about a million other things… [...]