Tag: drawing
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Spring Drawing
I have a stack of on-going drawings that I need to complete, but more times than not, the allure of starting a fresh new illustration often takes over. Here’s a case in point. But I’m setting my foot down, and mark my words, I will finish what I’ve already started. Seems like a good task…
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Cards for Ethan
I don’t usually like to post about horrid hard news here, but there is good stuff we can focus on in this case: Five-year old Ethan, who was kidnapped 6 days ago in Alabama, has been rescued safely from his captor just a matter of hours ago. His 6th birthday is this week and a…
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Fowl Play: A Murder Mystery Toile
If it weren’t for Spoonflower’s weekly contests that push designers into contemplating subjects they’d never otherwise ponder, I wouldn’t have created a murder mystery toile…ever. Like, never ever. But the seemingly out-of-left-field challenges almost always stir up a really fun exploration. The journey of addressing such peculiar briefs typically yields interesting experiments in how I…
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Snowflakes for Sandy Hook!
I was busily drawing snowflakes the other day for a fabric design and while I drew, I had the children of Sandy Hook Elementary School heavily on my mind. Then coincidentally a few days later, I got a news alert about a beautiful way to give something, just some small tiny little thing, back to…
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Fresh New Designs!
I’ve got a lot of designs in the hopper and was very happy to receive a set of proofs of a few of them in yesterday’s mail. Always scrumptious to see a new batch of designs, especially on my favorite fabric option of cotton linen. I could eat it, it’s so yummy. Remember this post?…
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‘Good Drawing Hand’ Days
Well, alrighty then. I think this time it’s fairly safe to say that I really did fall into a hole. A drawing haze of a hole. I’ve been working on a couple commissions along with new textile designs and have simply fallen into a sketching and drawing and using-up-of-ink-pens haze. I’ve got a stack of almost,…
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Snap Poll
With plate-spinning in overdrive at the moment as I toggle between projects, I did wonder about a little something. Maybe you can tell me… Am I the only one who draws like this?