Sally Calls on Saturday

Whew. It’s been a busy week. As most of you know, I started a new job on Monday and so I’ve been a bit remiss in my blogging and designing lately. I guess I’m still in transition–going from being on my own very loose schedule to a regular, 9-5 schedule is pretty jarring. I’m really [...]

Little Deer Painting in Progress

Last night I finished the background for the little deer painting. As you know, I started with a “stencil” that I had expanded and printed out from a digital illustration of mine, then colored it in with pink.
I filled in the brown background last night. I know I must be pretty rusty when it comes [...]

Fun with Silhouettes, Part Deux

Here’s what happened with those little bird silhouettes from earlier. Not bad, really. The set actually looks pretty cute. As soon as the big bucks start rolling in from the new job, I plan on getting these babies framed so I can hang them all in an arrangement similar to the one in this [...]

Fun with Silhouettes

Via CRAFT, I found this very fun tutorial on how to make some fun silhouette art. The talented Anna Maria Horner demonstrated how to make some very cool-looking art with some paint, fabric, and a cool stencil–she even provides two awesome, ready-to-print stencils for your use.
Since I didn’t actually have any fabric in the apartment [...]

Fancy Schmancy Stationery and thoughts on the Etsy stationery galaxy

Here’s the first demo pic of the new Fancy Schmancy Stationery (not posted on Etsy yet).
So as you know I was thinking a lot yesterday about starting back up with the whole stationery thing. I haven’t had any luck really with selling stationery on Etsy (there’s just so much out there) but I thought that [...]

Lazy Thursday

In my case, I think that the inevitable result of a few days of compulsive productivity is a day or two to unwind. The freedom to do this is one very cool thing about being a full-time artist–I’ll certainly miss this flexibility when I start my new job in early March. Still, the allure of [...]

New series?

So I just put up a new print of an octopus that I originally created based on a tutorial by Spoon Graphics. I jazzified things a little with a half-tone filter and some texture to get the final product. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. I’m really grateful that I found [...]

Adventures in Print Scanning, Part Trois

So, as some of you may know, I’m no longer relying on my not-so-awesome scanner to create product pics for the prints. Instead, I’ve opted to use the Texturizer filter on Photoshop (or on GIMP) to achieve a similar effect with more true-to-life colors. So far, so good.
But yesterday I wanted to experiment a little [...]