The Bow Project

Dearest friends, family, animal lovers, bike riders, and cake eaters---

Maybe some of you know that I love playing music almost as much as I love making art---piano, violin, percussion, guitar...kazoo... This project is about violin-- I haven't been able to play for a few weeks because my bow needs to be restrung, and it's driving me crazy! But restringing is a little expensive, especially for a starving artist like me. If you want to help me out a bit, that would make me the happiest! Here's the deal---in exchange for $10, I will paint an original 5x7 watercolor for you and ship it through the good ol' USPS. You just give me an idea of what to paint---an animal, food, adjective, dream, whatever---and I'll do what I do best. And both of us win! I get to play with the folk group at my church again, and you get a lovely to hang on your wall. The best, right?? So excited! Let's get this started, click on the button!

So many good-looking people

What a weekend! Mixed feelings about the show in Chelsea---it was great in that I met some really nice people, sold a few of my favorite pieces (the bunnies! I will miss them! But this really cool girl took them home, so I can't be that upset), and saw lots of family (I am related to so many good-looking people). But the show setup was pretty bad, as was the turnout. C'mon people! Support local artists!

I'll be in Kalamazoo next, for Art on the Mall (which is June 7 & 8? I think?), which I am SO looking forward to!

I updated my portfolio with new work, so check it out--- HAPPY LIFE STUDIO

If all this wasn't cool enough, I'm also on the cover of City Pulse mag, out of East Lansing!

Anthology Mag & Art Show Summer Time!

I am just so pumped right now. Also I just drank a lot of coffee. I got my copy of the newest issue of Anthology Mag yesterday, of which I am a contributor. !!!! There are so many talented people working on this magazine, and I am so flattered to be a part of it. . 
I'm also very excited to be in my first art fair of the summer this weekend----The Chelsea Invitational Craft Fair---I have a feeling it's going to be so much fun. And ahhhhh!!! they included my art on the front page of their website now I'm even more excited why is everyone being so nice to me??? My mom is coming with me, which is THE BEST THING EVER IN THE WORLD. I can't wait. Come see us if you're in the neighborhood! It's at the Chelsea Fairgrounds, and while I'm not entirely sure where that is, I will definitely Google map that before leaving to set up on Friday, as should you.

Below are some things----one of my pages in Anthology, and then some butterflies and flowers---I actually am going to turn them into a fabric pattern that you can order on Spoonflower.com! I'll post a link as soon as that's ready. Cool! Great! I have to go mat and frame a lot of art, so later gators!

Super geeked

I just created a facebook page for my art, and I'm super pumped that 171 people have liked it. I know that in the facebook world, 171 is...not a lot. Minuscule, actually. But I'm geeked about it anyway! I feel so popular! Here's the link, right here!, if anyone wants to check it out and....oh, I don't know....like it. Or whatever.

My mom has the coolest shop in the world, Woolderness, a fiber arts studio that teaches spinning (the wheel, not the bike, DUH), weaving, needle felting, twining, and lots of other really great fiber-y things. There's also a bunny who lives there (THE MOST ADORABLE CREATURE IN THE WORLD WHY HAVE I NOT MADE ART ABOUT HER YET???), and my line of greeting cards. Check it out, I made some new designs----

Being Productive Feels Awesome

I'm so glad that my show is happening at The DAAC. I have been 12 times as productive as usual---such a good feeling! Also motivating me is my incredibly talented roommate Lucy Engelman. Some of the stuff she pops out blows my mind--I'm such a lucky duck to be working in the same studio with her!

Some good things have been happening:

Some of my illos are in My Table magazine, out of Houston! The article is Bees in the City, and I did a full page spread of Texas wildflowers...omg I loved doing it so much--flowers flowers flowers please and thank you.

I've done some stuff for Amelia's magazine: a review of this band called TOY, and an article about Easter. Amelia's is kind of the coolest.

And then I've already posted about The Pen Pals here---some of my good illustrator friends from art school who formed a collective. Love them. Last week's theme was Treehouse (which was such a good one!!!), and this week's is Mess. I'm already halfway done with it, and am really pumped to post it.

Here is a dog and a treehouse---

Curious Nature---it's happening!

So my show, Curious Nature, it's for real! Not that it was fake the last time I posted, but...it feels more real, now. The poster has been designed, and I went and printed them off with my friend Mike, and now we have to go put them up in places, and everything is so so so exciting! I'm freaking out a little, but it's a good feeling. My work has changed a lot in the past month, and it's still a little weird for me to go into my studio and see the new stuff---I'm very interested to see what everyone thinks about it. 

Not that anyone cares, but I just started drinking coffee again after a one year hiatus, and I feel pretty fabulous about it. 

Still working on art for my show---a little Little Red, maybe?