Tag: illustration

  • Halloween Craftacular 2018

    Halloween Craftacular 2018

    Today I’ll be instructing a roomful of kids on how to make their own recycled golfball eyeball pendants. I love creating crafts that don’t involve the purchase of single-use craft store materials (glitter, resins, plastics, excess packaging that will all end up in the trash) but rather focus on the reuse of other familiar materials/objects…

  • Trick-or-Treat Gesso Paint Can: Sewing Instructions

    Trick-or-Treat Gesso Paint Can: Sewing Instructions

    If you’ve been over to Spoonfower recently, you’ll have been introduced to my L’Artiste Paint Palette Halloween Costume: And now here in this post, you can find the sewing instructions for the accompanying L’Artiste Gesso Paint Can trick-or-treat bag! Because we can’t forget the candy collecting! Here’s how to assemble your very own: 1.  …

  • Recent Client Work: Totally Collectible

    Recent Client Work: Totally Collectible

    I created this action figure box-style photo op display for attendees to have fun with at the Singer booth during the Emerald City ComicCon in Seattle last week. I busted out some custom hand-drawn and drafted lettering too! It was a really fun project to conceptualize and design and from what I hear, it was…

  • New Year, New March Posters!

    New Year, New March Posters!

    Okay, fine peeps, it’s a new year and time for more marching (because sanity! because fitness! because community!), so I’ve whipped up a new batch of posters for you to walk with, wherever you are in the world. Personally, I thought saying “Ditto from Last Year” pretty much sums up everything for me, hahaha, so…

  • Happy New Year!

    Happy New Year!

    Flyin’ on in with a bang! Ummm, also slowly dethawing from Cyclone Bomb bombogenesis action…which accounts for the 9-days-late greeting… Happy new year, fine people!-sk

  • When News Travels…

    When News Travels…

    Aka, when you know full well that once you’ve made one kid’s wishes come true, you’re going to have to immediately do it for any others within earshot, you get in there like a champ and transform this request: into…THIS!!!! BOOOOOYAH!!!!!! Yep, that’s right. A (fully removable) wee baby stuffie in the pouch of a…

  • Transforming a Kidlet Drawing into a Yeti Stuffie

    Transforming a Kidlet Drawing into a Yeti Stuffie

    Oh, what do I do on a lazy Sunday to wind down from post-party/holiday festivities? Give myself the challenge of transforming my art director kidlet’s Yeti drawing into the stuffie he imagined it to look like.  Although I see a few flaws, my client is 100% satisfied, which is always good news. The silver metallic…

  • My October Food Pyramid*

    My October Food Pyramid*

    This pretty much sums things up…. *This may or may not also be my Working-on-Deadline Food Pyramid…  xo, sk

  • Catch of the Day: Mermaid Tail Beach Blankets!

    Splish! Splash! I’ve got a fresh new DIY project out today over on the Spoonflower blog: my fresh-from-the-seas Mermaid Tail Beach Blankets!  There are not one but two fun design options to pick from and, get this, they both come in adult and kid sizes! Woohoo! Full rainbow gradient fun printed on a perfectly snuggly minky substrate,…

  • New Posters for the People’s Climate Movement!

    I was asked this morning if I’d have posters available for the upcoming People’s Climate March in Washington this Saturday, April 29th and although I wasn’t planning on it, I decided to jump in and make some for you!!! Possibly on the last-minute side of things, but better late than never….same goes for climate control…