Make Your Own Camping Hammock: DIY Instructions
Camping is one of my all-time favorite pastimes. Growing up in Colorado, this meant long family drives to national parks with a pop-up camper in tow or treks into the mountains for weekend backpacking...
View ArticleNew Encaustic Works
Crazy-working bees provide me with an abundance of beeswax to use in my encaustics, so I got back in the studio and started experimenting with some variations on my technique. In my previous encaustic...
View ArticleMovie Poster Designs for the Miccosukee Tribe
I am working with Free Road Entertainment to put together a number of designs for the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida's Tribal Museum and Indian Village, starting with two movie posters. Free...
View ArticleOur Home has a Teen Room!
Living Room My mom tried extremely hard to instill in her children a good habit of cleanliness and knowledge of how to keep a proper home. Her weekly chore list of "clean the bathroom mirror", "shine...
View ArticleNew Year, New Forevers
In the late afternoon of December 31st, Dave and I eagerly hopped in the car to take one final drive to a familiar location. It was our last time together as a young, childless couple--a fact that we...
View ArticleScarecrow to Skull Kid: Dollar Store Repaint DIY
I made my first gif! I can Internet! This past Fall, I was perusing my dollar store's selection of solar wigglies (which I assume is the proper name for the category of dancing daisies and swaying...
View ArticleThe Story of "Past and Future Travels of Here Right Now"
Past and Future Travels of Here Right Now is a collection of 300 pen-and-ink drawings I started in April 2010 and completed in April 2011. To see the full collection and to purchase works from the...
View ArticleLiterary Quote Typography Postcard Designs
Around the start of the new year, Free Expressions Seminars and Literary Services asked me to design a postcard featuring a quote from author Annie Dillard. The intention was to start the year off by...
View ArticleDear Diary, My First Podcast Experience Was Soooo Fun.
Royce, me, and JD, after recording Left Hand Right Brain. Their faces look so warm with those beards. I am jealous.Oh boy, I have been gone for some time, haven't I? In November, our family moved to...
View ArticleIronic Baby, my Hipster Brand of Nursery Art Printables
While browsing instagram/etsy/the internet, I keep seeing these ultra-simple, instant download nursery art printables that say things like "Be Brave" and "dream big, little one" in a trendy "hipster"...
View ArticleShift Without a Studio
While I am sadly without an art space (I can only do so much at the kitchen table), I've been seeking creative ways to put out some work and still feel productive (instead of just depressed that my...
View ArticleBackyard Artist Studio Build: The Permit Monster
Reenactment by professional actors PERMITÂ was this monstrous, scary word I had avoided in all of my previous home projects. At our home in Florida, I would research residential code and skate just...
View ArticleBackyard Artist Studio Build Part II: Exterior
The studio build has been consuming my spaghetti brain for well over a year now, and look! I built this! With the help of a few lovely friends, my backyard art studio is finally complete. The yard is...
View ArticleBackyard Artist Studio Part III: Interior
 The inside of the backyard artist studio I built is my new favorite place in the world, and I am so excited to finally share my space with all of you! Taking pictures of it was super fun; when I was...
View ArticleThe Story of "Past and Future Travels of Here Right Now"
Past and Future Travels of Here Right Now is a collection of 300 pen-and-ink drawings I started in April 2010 and completed in April 2011. To see the full collection and to purchase works from the...
View ArticleLiterary Quote Typography Postcard Designs
Around the start of the new year, Free Expressions Seminars and Literary Services asked me to design a postcard featuring a quote from author Annie Dillard. The intention was to start the year off by...
View ArticleDear Diary, My First Podcast Experience Was Soooo Fun.
Royce, me, and JD, after recording Left Hand Right Brain. Their faces look so warm with those beards. I am jealous.Oh boy, I have been gone for some time, haven't I? In November, our family moved to...
View ArticleIronic Baby, my Hipster Brand of Nursery Art Printables
While browsing instagram/etsy/the internet, I keep seeing these ultra-simple, instant download nursery art printables that say things like "Be Brave" and "dream big, little one" in a trendy "hipster"...
View ArticleShift Without a Studio
While I am sadly without an art space (I can only do so much at the kitchen table), I've been seeking creative ways to put out some work and still feel productive (instead of just depressed that my...
View ArticleBackyard Artist Studio Build Part I: The Permit Monster
Reenactment by professional actors PERMITÂ was this monstrous, scary word I had avoided in all of my previous home projects. At our home in Florida, I would research residential code and skate just...
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