Illustration

The View from Our Place

As promised, a post about my latest watercolor painting, The View from Our Place. If you’re here for another fiber project roundup, you’ll have to wait for the next post. I decided there’s too much to talk about to cram it all into one update.
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Subalpine’s Designs @Society6

UPDATE: 2025 We no longer maintain a store on Society6
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Practice Making Progress

Continuing to share my journey of discovery with watercolor, today’s post is meant to encourage you to find ways to advance your creative practice and for me to appreciate what I’ve accomplished.
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Pardon Me, I Arted

I’m sure you’ve noticed. The boundaries of the world have changed.
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Playing with Water

I can’t say I’m a complete novice when it comes to watercolor.
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Tangled Up In Blue

Back in January I shared some of my artistic goals for the new year. If you’ve read this blog for long, you’ll know I’ve talked about a daily sketch practice for a while. One technique I tried initially was drawing the first object that came to mind and adding it to a single page. I didn’t sustain that practice for very long. My first attempt at a daily practice.
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Meet Lou

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Smokey, Throw Back Thursday

Of the sketches I’ve shared for #TBT this one is more recent than high school. From the location in my sketch book (and the kitchen design idea showing thru on the other side of the page), I’m going to guess it should be dated sometime around 2002. Smokey was my first dog and it left a big hole in my heart when he passed on.
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Juicy Succulent

This was another sketch that was created while working on the rebrand of Red Silk Essentials as a possible new logo idea. My inspiration came from my friend and silversmith, Bailey Schreiner Parker, she’s the Boho Luxe Bohemian behind Beaded Bohemian, who likes to cast lil succulents into her designs. Now, looking back, I’m itching to draw some more succulents and this time in color. I love their fractal, repetitive, spiraling design.
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Earth Ninjas, Throwback Thursday

Here’s another sketch from high school. This one’s of my friends Liz (left), Dayna (center), and myself (right). I’m not sure why I’ve got us holding skateboards. We weren’t skaters, although we did run with the ‘alternative’ crowd, the freaks and geeks who didn’t fit in anywhere else. I don’t remember why we were wearing Earth Ninja t’s either, probably that we felt we could take on and protect the world. Today, when I volunteer with Audubon Rockies at the Four Mile Ranch we talk to the students about being Earth Ninjas, leaving behind little to no trace of our presence on the planet.
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