A made a couple of these artist trading card… art cards, editions, & originals… things (um there should totally only be one name for them) so heeeeere they are!

They were fun to make, and I have about 5 more in progress.  When I open my Etsy shop (I know I know, I keep saying that) [...]

Oh my gosh, how cute are these?!!
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They’re coasters from Curbly.  Adorable.  They kind of make me want to turn into a MAJOR art teacher geek and start wearing paint palette earrings or something.  WHICH EXIST!  I just did a search and found these:

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Those second ones are so cute and tiny.  They are from this [...]

Just a few pictures of a book I made:
It measures about 4.75 x 3.5 inches, so it’s little and cute, and has 32 pages.  One day when I open my Etsy shop (it’s going to happen, I promise… hopefully soon) I think I might sell something like this.  I love how small it is and [...]

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When I first saw this I thought it would be the BEST ROOM EVER.  And then I realized that no, it really wouldn’t, at all.  My stuff would probably always fall in the pool, it would be a huge pain to keep clean, and everything I own would smell like chlorine.  No thanks, but, it [...]

Alright party people, it’s skyline tutorial time.  As I promised in my last post, here are the step-by-step instructions for creating this painting.

Okay first of all, here are the things you will need:
Watercolor paper (or any paper thick enough so it won’t rip when wet), watercolors, paint brush, water container with water, black paint, yellow [...]

Two posts in one day?!  It’s a miracle, I know.  This is a quick painting I did because we are going to be teaching it to our Saturday Art School students this Saturday.  It is REALLY easy to do, so I am going to make a step-by-step tutorial on how to do it for you [...]

Last week I was about to start working on the book covers for the sample visual journal I’m making, when my supervising teacher opened the door to the art supply room and showed me her giant collection off all things art/collage related.  And said that I could use whatever I wanted.
oh.my.
I have never really been [...]

Okay so here’s what’s gonna happen: I am blogging every day in February.  EVERYDAY.  (Yeah yeah, I chose the shortest month, so what?)  So get ready to party.
I’m teaching a visual journaling and bookmaking class for the next several weeks, and the picture above is of the sample book I’m working on and I’m going [...]

-The top left is an image by Holli Conger, who does children’s illustrations and has a bunch of other creative endeavors going on (check out her blog here).  Her stuff is adorable aaand I love it.
-The images in the top right corner and the lower left are by an artist named Stephanie Corfee.  Her work [...]

I just finished a massively time consuming side project, and have decided that wedding photography is not for me.  Not at all, not even close.  Sooo good thing I’m back in school right??
I’m trying to make more time for art.  Even though I now have a very specific career goal in mind (finish school, get [...]