http://justmusing.net/wp-content/themes/sketch/404.php If you follow me on social media, you know that this zodiac mandala project has been in the works for a while now. Back in college, for my Advanced Illustration class, we had an assignment where we had to … Continued
Don’t you know about the bird? Cause everybody knows that the bird is the word! So now that you absolutely hate me for getting THAT one stuck in your head…. I thought it would be fun to show you a … Continued
Want to hear something funny? I’m not a big fan of yellow. Or orange. I can take them in small doses, but you’ll be damn sure that if you open my closet and rifle through every single article of clothing … Continued
I promised some progression pictures of my blue owl, and then once I actually checked my phone it turns out I didn’t take nearly as many as I though. Bummer. I also thought I had another stash of progress photos … Continued
This acrylic owl painting was quite a while in the making. I created a different version of it in Photoshop (original here) about a year ago, and I thought it would be fun to re-create in paint. After all, acrylics … Continued
This week the weather has been absolutely gorgeous. We get a lot of false starts to summer here in Chicago, but I think we’ve finally kicked it into window opening, backyard barbequeing, fresh caprese salad eating, flip flop rocking, neighborhood … Continued
After what feels like forever and a day, I finally finished my latest picture! To this day, it still amazes me how much harder it is to do artwork with two kids running around the house. When I got … Continued
Yikes…just realized that I haven’t posted anything in a week. Bad, bad, bad! Life has been pretty busy, but in a good way. My daughter was on spring break from school, so there was a lot of running around with … Continued
I’ve been working on this project for a little over a week now. I wish I’d taken a photo before I started coloring everything in, but honestly I got sucked into working (in “the zone”, if you will) and straight … Continued
Ohhhh….Micron pens. How I love thee. Seriously, I wish the makers of Micron pens would sponsor my artistic endeavors and just start sending me a box of microns every few weeks. I sure use enough of them. I have at … Continued
I might have mentioned this before, but I have an obsession with watching people make things. It doesn’t matter what it is; a painting, a meal, a cabinet, a dress, I’ll immediately get sucked into it and can’t look … Continued