Every studio day starts with a bowl of Cheerios on the stairs while I watch the birds. Then I grab my coffee with just a splash of half and half and head to the art studio. Before I get to any projects or paperwork I do my “Quick Mini Morning Sketch”. The reason I started […]
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This Winter was a bit much even for the seasoned New Englander. It wasn’t just the record snow. We’ve seen a lot of snow before. It was the snow never went away, not even a little bit. It was too damn cold. The temperature refused to rise above 32 degrees for any sustained amount of
I made this poster for my sister-in-law, Bricken. For part of her master’s degree program she is doing a project called, “The Great Tap Water Challenge”. The idea is quite simple, stop using plastic, disposable bottles or cups to hold your beverages. My family has a case of bottled water that sits on our back porch that
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“Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water”, is one of many old adages that I would hear as a child that was confusing and sometimes frightening to me. Here are some other favorites: If you were over doing something you’d get, “Don’t gild the lily”. Did this have something to do with the Lollipop
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For the past few years I have been making custom Valentines for my children. This year they are both in Middle School. I don’t know if they are going to want to give them out to their classmates. But I wanted to keep up the tradition anyways. Here is what I came up with for
My ballet dancing daughter, who sometimes acts as my art director needed a new bag to hold her dance gear and she had the great idea for me to make of a pattern with the five positions. So, once dinner and homework was done I went up in the studio and drew my daughter’s feet.
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Thank you so much to everyone who has made purchases at my online shops. XOXO Buying something from one of my shops gives you a chance to cyber shop, shop small and to get a unique item. This week my Society6 shop is going to have a bunch of good deals each day for the
I’ve updated my shops just in time for the pre-season, shopping season for the holidays season. I have four shops right now. One is my Etsy shop which has some original, hand drawn, one of a kind paintings swiped from the stacks in my studio. Check those out here, https://www.etsy.com/shop/atlanticmo Two is my Society6 shop that has high quality prints,
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Not that long ago I learned how to make a repeat pattern using Photoshop. I wanted to use pattern for some of my products in my Society6 shop. I love the way some of the other artists at Society6 us pattern on the pillows, duvet covers, shower curtains and tote bags. I’m always up for learning
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The bird thing started this past winter. I had been doing most of my illustration digitally using a stylus and tablet for the past few years and before that my main medium was brush and acrylic paint on canvas. Some time in late February I decided to try something new and I started drawing with
