Studio Update: Creative Paradox Residency

It's been a while since my last post, but I've been pretty busy in the meantime! In the past few months I've gotten engaged (and will be married in less than 3 weeks!) started a new job, and have begun a year-long residency at Creative Paradox in Annapolis, Maryland. I've been sharing a beautiful studio space with the other two resident artists, Lee Nowell and Nicole Mueller. Today has been a great day of preparation for our upcoming art party/fundraising event "12X12", with all three of us in the studio working on separate projects and my fiance planning some collaborative work with our program director, Casey Johnson. The night of August 18th we'll have the studios open for "12X12", so come check it out! There will be plenty of work on display, t- shirts and prints for sale, live music, live art-making, and real live artists! More details here.

Images courtesy of Darren Heater

Dove girls

A quick painting based on a photo I took last summer of a group of kids holding a handmade dove "tent." Acrylic on paper.

First Fridays @ PAD

I am very excited to be able to showcase my work for PAD's "First Fridays" event! The work displayed will be primarily thesis work with a few new pieces that relate to the series. The work will be up for all of January, but be sure to come by the opening this Friday from 6-8pm for wine and appetizers! PAD is located at 1500 Thames Street down in Fells Point. Check out the event page for more information about the show: http://pad-furniture.com/arts-at-pad/ They are now accepting entries for the February salon-style show.

Ten Paces and Draw--November mixtape

Ten Paces and Draw featured my art this week for their "November Mixtape"--a bit different from their usual sketch swap; we were given a selection of songs to choose from and illustrate. I chose "Bobby Beale" by the Generationals--check out the song and full post here!

Holler to my man Klimt for providing the inspiration for this dysfuctional relationship piece

Birthday Card

A watercolor I made for my roommate's birthday yesterday---happy birthday Annie!!

Handlettering Commission

This is a commission I did a while back--sorry for the poor image quality! I grabbed a few snapshots before sending the illustration on its way. The work was commissioned by someone who wanted a gift for his sister who was graduating from college. She had a typed list of personal inspirational quotes that she kept on her mirror which he wanted to have hand-lettered and framed. You can see the document in its original form below.

Ten Paces and Draw

It was a lot of fun to contribute to the blog Ten Paces and Draw this week! The theme was "Pet Portraits", and this is my finalized version of Kyle Fewell's cat sketch. You can see them together here and also check out Jen Mussari's version of my sketch here

Thunder Thighs