I am now offering a framing option for my portraits, and these are gorgeous frames!  I am currently offering them in 8″x10″, 11″x14″ and 16″x20″ sizes.  Also, the below pics show a new portrait.  I used my son as the subject, well he and his ‘lumpy.’  This is his very well loved constant companion.   You can […]

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is really here.  Our heat is on and the kids are begging for fires in the fireplace. 

A few sketches I did yesterday working out some ideas…

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I am so flippin excited to share these with you!  They are beautiful and would make such a wonderful gift.  I am offering two options.  The first is 12 individual panels featuring illustrations of YOUR snapshots.  Each picture is hand drawn in ink and then digitally colored, printed  on gorgeous paper and mounted to wood panels.  Here is a […]

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Is cuteness a word?  Thinking not, but if it was, these are what you’d see under the definition.  I spotted these over at poppytalk this morning.  There is a link to Pillpat’s flickr stream where you can print them out your self!  I know my daughter (and I) would have so much fun making these.

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swifts to be exact.  I have been playing around a little bit with cutting paper and texture and here is the result…

My extra hours while the kids are at school have afforded me the opportunity to play and it’s so much fun.  You can see more of this piece here.

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new work (more to come) and painting the walls

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I am toying with the idea of offering my wallpaper panel art as cutouts as well (ie subtracting the image instead of  adding it through paint).
The wood panel is just too pretty to hide, I think.

(note that this is not a finished piece, don’t want you to think I’m a slacker in the craft department)

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Yesterday we did a little welcome picture on our chalkboard in preparation for our kindergarten teacher visit.  Body prints were made and decorated.

dog body prints, not so easy to capture…

though the same can also be said for little boys…

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these adorable little wooden families from fellow etsy seller Goose Grease.  I am seeing a little family project in our near future.  You can also order them customized to match your family (you know how I love portraits!).

…and these little beauties!  Found here

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The kids built dioramas yesterday.  It was a fun and easy project.  We used a couple of shoe boxes, they drew the background, added some trees from the local craft store and our yard and put in some toys from around the house. 

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taping up my latest work on our chalkboard entry hall…

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I hadn’t used my holga camera for a few years, four actually.  But I took it with us recently on vacation and am really impressed with the results.  I only wish I had brought more film.  It’s pretty amazing what you can capture with a plastic camera…

(this one was an accident, but a fun one)

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The days are getting away from me around here.  Last week we went blueberry picking

and the kids have been working away on some paper mache

while I have been working away on some projects of my own

 I decided (cause hey it won’t be that hard!, yeah right) to swap rooms with the kids’ play room and move my office/studio […]

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I have been working on these for a while now, weaving together different aspects of my work into a new line of children’s art.  I really love how they have turned out.  I have painted some charming little silhouettes onto wallpaper and mouted them onto these gorgeous wood panels.  They are available now on my website […]

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This summer we made the choice not to sign the kids up for a bunch of camps, one each was the rule.  Oh, but it was so hard!  We live in such an amazing city full of so many neat camps, there was definitely temptation.  There are acrobat camps, art camps, theater camps, science camps, zoo camp, […]

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of things to come….

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Today I’m working on some custom orders and playing around a bit with some new ideas…

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We went to see this last night
 

By far my favorite cirque show I’ve seen.   My favorite part, though, was looking over at the kids’ open mouthed wonder.  Really fun, and full of inspiration.

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