Painting watercolor sunsets is so much fun and very therapeutic! If you are looking for a fun weekend art project, read on to learn how I discovered this class on Skillshare and the 3 new techniques I picked up.
What an amazing year of mixed media art learning! I’ve learned so many new techniques and ways to use acrylic paint, watercolor, graphite, paint pens, stencils, stamps, markers, tracing paper, tissue paper, watercolor paper, cardboard boxes and brown kraft paper to add pattern and texture to my mixed media art. Here are some of my favorite projects that I completed this summer.
As I dive deeper into the world of children’s book illustration and animation, character design is a skill that I am actively practicing, learning and improving upon.
If you are an emerging artist like me, who has many different art interests, you too might find it a challenge to decide what should be your focused art practice and what should be part of your creative play. Read on to find out what I did to discover my art niche.
Last month, my cousin and I spent a fabulous week in Waikiki, Hawaii. If you’ve never been, I highly recommend it! Travel inspires much of my creative pursuits and this trip was no exception! In this post, you’ll find a sampling of inspirational photos, and my suggested itinerary for sightseeing, dining and shopping.
I’m usually the type or artist who likes to have a plan before I start creating - this usually means gathering inspiration, finding reference images, sketching ideas, deciding on a color palette, developing a theme etc. But this past weekend, I did something different…
Recently, I designed a mini-collection of graphic art combining my patterns with fun typography and motivational phrases. I started to think, wouldn’t it be great to have my art printed as stickers!
Last month I spent a week in Newfoundland, Canada attending a sashiko stitching/visible mending and hand quilting workshop retreat organized by Ace Camps Travel. If you’ve never been on a workshop retreat, I highly recommend it!
I participated in an online speaker panel event on Saturday, June 4, 2022 for the New York Public Library Career Services Talk: Get Animated, Leverage Your Design Skills.
