Like I’ve mentioned before, as artists we’re always looking for ways to connect, improve, and challenge our creative practice. I’ve participated in my fair share of drawing challenges, so I believe I have enough experience to help other artists get the most out of them. With the approaching footsteps of art challenges this autumn ( …
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My Favorite Art Drawing Challenges
As an artist we’re always looking for ways to connect, improve, and challenge ourselves in our creative practice. The arrival of social media and subsequent art challenges has fulfilled this opportunity for many of us. Over the following weeks I’ll be doing a two-part series on art drawing challenges to help fellow artists who are …
A (Desperately Needed) Weekend Adventure…and Bird Sketches!
First off, I’m going to apologize to my blog and and everyone who checks out my website: I’m sorry for neglecting you! I haven’t been great at updating here. I’ve been busy with that #momlife and working on my children’s book like a hermit (maybe I’ll share some sneaky peek sketches soon in a newsletter). …
Artists in the Age of Social Media
A Burden Is Lifted from My Shoulders I’ve been doing a lot of introspection the last month on how I want to proceed as an artist and budding writer. I’m redefining my definition of fulfillment as an artist. No longer will I be gauging my success by the amount of interaction on social media. This …
The White Doe
*In respect of fellow family members I’ve leaving the person in question vague, if you know who I’m talking about you know* A month ago was the anniversary of a loved one who passed unexpectedly. Realizing what day it was cast an introspective pall on the rest of the day. It brought to mind the …
I’m Creating an Alphabet Book of Legendary Beasties!
For the last couple of years I’ve had this idea of creating a children’s book with my own illustrations and writing. I have a few ideas brewing but the first one I want to focus on is an alphabet book focusing on cryptids and legendary creatures from around the world. (To be honest, it was …
What a time its been.
It’s been a tumultuous past 14 months. So many things have happened from the last time I updated this blog. To briefly sum that time up, I balanced a management position at work while navigating the journey of pregnancy for the first time. Needless to say, both left me mentally and physically drained, and thus …
The Liminal Space Between Wild & Domestic
While I wait to hear back on whether my piece made it into Manifest Gallery’s Inhabit juried show, I thought I’d share a bit more backstory on my drawing I submitted. The jury process isn’t over until sometime in July so I won’t have to wait that much longer. Fingers crossed! The drawing I created …
Tools of the Trade: More of My Favorite Pens!
It’s been a hectic May :/ I’ve been working a lot of overtime at my day job and its been draining my mojo for art-making once I make it home every evening. I’m trying to decide which one is more important, getting a decent amount of sleep or working on my current project into the …
Tools of the Trade: My Favorite Pens
Happy Friday! This week I wanted to share a few of my favorite tools of the trade (pens) and what I like most about them. I love experimenting with mediums so this gave me a good excuse to make little swatch cards for each to test them all out (I am not a scientist). I …