Tag: painting
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Starry-eyed
For months now I’ve been busy drafting ideas, scribbling sketches and painting—painting and painting and painting!—icons for a new project I’m working on with my friend Sonja. We’re still keeping a pretty tight lid on things for now, but we’ll be launching soon, so she gave me the green light to show you these little…
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Weekend work
On Saturday morning the weather was so perfect that I headed down to the waterfront for a little sketching—not to mention a little quality time with one of my Droplets! I guess you could count this as working over a holiday, but it sure doesn’t feel like that. To me, it feels like the best…
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Step by step
Workin’ on a new batch of little somethings…can’t wait to show you the finished product!
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Before and after
Well, I’ve eked out just about as much pigment as it’s possible to get from some of these half pans, so I think it’s time to break out a brand-new paintbox. Somehow it feels like I’ve refreshed the whole studio.
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Words to live by
I’ve done a lot of lettering commissions in my day, but this was something new for me. When my client approached me about this project, she told me she had spent the past few years working on her personal practice as a writer—as a fellow creative whose work has also been changing lately, I was…
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Letter up
I’ve been working on a super-fun lettering commission lately, which has been giving my paintbrush plenty of exercise. My client gets to see the finished paintings first, but once she does, I’ll post them here. More soon!
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Hedge trimmings
Look! I made an alphabet! It’s funny—I almost never design an entire alphabet. In general, lettering projects just don’t really work like that. Most of the time, a letterer(erer) designs only the letterforms required for the word or phrase they’re lettering. That’s really the best way to create letter styles (which are not the same…
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Jellied delights
You already know I have a thing for absurd, elaborate, apocalypse-resistant desserts. I took an afternoon “off” from my normal studio work to play around with various silly things, and this ended up being the theme. I think it’s sort of an illustrator’s version of happy hour, I suppose…
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Painted wings
My acrylic inks and black paper are getting a lot of use these days. This guy is part of a new series that’ll be leaving the nest in the next few days. More soon…
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Clean palette, clean slate
The holidays are done, and January is here—and that means it’s time to get back to work. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready.