If you follow my instagram I’m sure you’ve seen a myriad of pictures showcasing my newest, most favorite toy in my studio: my butterfly paper punch! I bought...

I feel like this painting somewhat accurately portrays the clutter of thoughts and emotions in my head right now. Its a little messy in there. The prompt for...

A long time ago I pulled a bunch of japanese or chinese ink drawings out of a magazine. I pasted them into my sketchbook with the intention of using them as ...

That sort of sums up how I feel about this whole endeavor. I painted on paper, fabric, and a little bit on the canvas. Afterwards I layered all the various p...

I did paint today and yesterday but the paint is still drying so I don’t have a picture to post yet for the challenge. What I do have are pictures of my extr...

To make up for the fact that I joined the 30 Days of Painting Challenge late I thought I would do a bunch of small watercolor paintings. Although I only need...

I am currently enrolled in an advanced studio course through the Art House. My wonderful instructor Rebecca challenged me to think more seriously about the c...

Here are two little boxes I decoupaged today. I have a lot of little scraps left over from larger projects and I can never bring myself to just throw them aw...

I realize working with the elements is a somewhat cliche thing to do. However, I just needed a series to work through some ideas I’m experimenting with. Righ...

Role Playing Games are a great way to generate ideas for stories, artistic projects, and costumes. Last summer I played in a home brew game with some of my g...

#Drawing #Pen #StillLife

For someone who normally has a lot of art supplies at their disposal it has been quite hard to have ALL of my supplies in storage. For some reason the only t...

Colored Pencils, Pen 8 years ago today me and my loving husband started dating. Now we are happily married and about to embark on a grand adventure to Chicag...

Yesterday my husband found a pile of glowsticks amongst our things. Thinking they were spent he cracked them all at once. Turned out they were new ones, just...

Last time I blogged about anything was a while ago, and back in November I only talked about half of my trip to California. Since then I have made a lot more...

#Experiment #blue #2011 #fabric #mixedmedia

Some times when you play with a new art medium you love what you create simply because its so fun and new. Other times you create something that you absolute...

Today I wanted to walk through the steps of creating a poem from the pages of an old book. The book I have been altering for quite some time now is “Prepator...

Not exactly advised, but when you don’t have a big enough space to paint it will work. Live dangerously! Paint with acrylic in bed! #Poetry #2013 #Sharpie #A...