I painted a sign a long time ago for our family pig roast on a piece of cardboard. It was cute, then a few years in someone nabbed it from our driveway – who does that? Anyway, I owed my parents a new sign, so I decided to do this one right. I had a piece of board left over from another project, so I painted a faux-wood grain on it and then the lettering and the pig. There’s something…
This year’s theme for the Festival of Trees was a “Winter Wonderland”. I’m super happy with how this poster came out. I was really inspired and loved painting it. Below is the artwork before and after adding text and some snow.
This year’s Festival of Trees was good. The theme was Inspiring Joy, which on the artistic side of things was a little too open-ended for me. I fell a little short on inspiration for the poster. I wanted it to be light airy with the ball of mistletoe hanging in the middle. I’m happy enough with how the Mistletoe came out, but the design of the poster as a whole leaves a bit to be desired in my opinion.
Oh would you look at that! The holidays are back again! I once again created the necessary signage for our town’s Festival of Trees and for the first year since helping out with this part of the project I have created the whole thing myself. The images are all painted in Photoshop by yours truly and the typography is mine as well. I’m no master typographer, but I think it’s pretty good. The bells turned out so well that I…
Ack! Day two never got uploaded after the RI tangle search. D= These two Zentangles® were done at the seminar, the star is my 7-pointed start for this having been the 7th CZT training. The tile on the right is the first tile we did at the seminar during the intro class. =) The second day of the certification seminar was as awesome as the first. We did lots of Zentangles and got to see what tangles a few of the…
Here’s my “waterfire” tile inspired by the sconces along the river. We were asked to go find a new tangle around Providence and I thought I’d use the carpet pattern. I ended up using these sconces make a sort of half circle pattern with a grid behind it. I’ll call it RIFS. (Rhode Island Fire Sconce) I did this pattern as sconces with water coming out the top for an example. I should do another with it used more abstractly.
So it turns out that training to teach Zentangle® is sooo much fun. I wasn’t really expecting it to be arduous or boring, but it has surpassed my expectations of inspiration. I am so pumped up and raring to go! In our first day we have drawn and tangled so many tiles and even our bags, shirts and name tags! I can’t wait for what tomorrow brings.. but until then here are a few photos I can share with you.…
I’m out at the Fall Foliage Festival in Warner today! OOTS has a booth between Wingdoodle and Charlie Macs and you can find some of my prints there. We’re also selling buttons and giving out Apple Cider! The Weather is beautiful so if you’re nearby, stop in Warner NH!