April Shower

I'm not sure I officially announced it here on the blog, but I'm thrilled to have a line of holiday card designs and 2013 calendars coming out this year via Smudge Ink!  I know it seems early for holiday, but in the world of wholesale this is right on time.  I will be able to share more details later, but for now the production is finally done and here they are in a splatter!



Also, check out my freshly updated website, where you can view these in more detail.
Enjoy the April showers!

Study for a Whale

A sketch for an etching I will be working on over the next couple weeks. 

Hopefully I will finish this before my trip to Italy!! (more on that later)
In the meantime Happy Friday!

Settling into the studio just in time for Spring

Just wanted to share some photos of my new workspace. I'm loving the open airy feeling I have here, where there is a home for all my little things that inspire me.

Happy spring!

Warm thoughts

The beautiful 68 degree weather that we got in Boston today made me start looking forward to the spring and summer days ahead. Here is a little glimpse of a project I'm working on right now

I'll have more to share soon! Happy warm weather everyone!

surprise visitor

This little person showed up while I was practicing my script.

Sweet dreams...

Life in motion

Well my feelings of claustrophobia were short lived and here I find myself in a much, much bigger apartment only a month later! Things are sure moving fast around here, and I'm busily trying to get all my things in their places so that I can keep plugging away on projects. Here is a little photo tour of the new studio:

lil books in lil box

all the Brave Men books in a row

book press ready for squishin

oh, hello Moomin!

more soon....

Channelling Vera

A current project has dictated the need to depict flowers. Botanicals are a subject I've always wanted to explore, but haven't much, until now. I pretty much stick to little gnarly flowers and weed-like grass when it comes to landscapes of any kind. For inspiration, I've been turning to the work of Vera Neumann, who depicted wonderful loose graphic flowers, mostly on textiles through out the mid 20th century. Here is one I especially love:

And here is a tiny little snippet of a design I'm working on now:

I hope to be able to share the full image later this spring! Until then, many more flowers, washes and doodles must happen.

Thank you Julia for teaching me about Vera! What a valuable resource she's been!