Paducah Life Magazine

Paducah Life Magazine

100daysofpattern2018, Patterns, Publications, Sketchbook

Starting in April I participated in the worldwide #the100dayproject and learned to do repeat pattern designs and basically made one a day for 100 days. Posting them on Instagram every day as I was designing them got me some good attention and resulted in this beautiful article in Paducah Life Magazine. View a PDF of the entire...
I worked on something really cool over the weekend

I worked on something really cool over the weekend

Body Positivity, Fat, Instagram, Publications, Sketchbook

I worked on something really cool over the weekend and kept my big mouth shut while I waited to see if it would actually be published… .. The super-cool Rebecca Alexander is Kickstarting a much-needed app/website called AllGo: “a review site where fat people rate the comfort and accessibility of places so others can know what it’s like.” .. After learning about the project from Your Fat Friend, I made a small donation to the project and emailed Rebecca and let her know that I’d love to help her out in some way. She asked me to draw a few of her high-profile supporters for an article in @popsugar and I was happy to comply! So here, for your viewing pleasure, is my illustration of @roxanegay74, @bitchesgottaeat, @themilitantbaker and @andimjulie. Click the link in my bio to see the full article with my illustration on POPSUGAR! And support the campaign in...
Maker’s Magazine

Maker’s Magazine

Instagram, Publications, Sketchbook

Hey friends, I’m thrilled to announce that I have some work in the new issue of this gorgeous art magazine, @makersmovement! Each issue has a single theme and when I saw the call for the “Women” issue, I obviously had to submit! Now to attempt to wait patiently for my copies to arrive in the...
The Heroine’s Journey

The Heroine’s Journey

Instagram, Publications, Sketchbook

Thank you to Peter de Kuster for inviting me to contribute to his website, The Heroine’s Journey, where he invites creative people to share stories about their passions. In answering some of these questions about people I admire, who my heroes are, I discovered some commonalities that I hadn’t thought of before. Strong women who forge their own ways and create richly layered images or lyrics or prose which tell complex stories that you can’t quite understand. Either literally using women’s bodies layered with other imagery or singing or writing about women’s experiences and emotions using very descriptive phrasing that doesn’t quite tell the whole story. Lots of things to think about when I’m in the studio! Link to the interview is in my...
Struggling for Balance: Art + Design

Struggling for Balance: Art + Design

Publications, Sketchbook

This post was originally written for the blog Artists Tell Their Stories. I’ve wanted to make art for as long as I can remember. I spent my childhood drawing more than anything else. I took every art class I possibly could as a teenager and never considered not studying art in college. I had a brief flirtation with graphic design when I attended the Rhode Island School of Design Pre-College summer program. But this was before computers and it held no appeal for me. I much preferred the time I spent in RISD’s Nature Lab where I was able to check out a taxidermied squirrel and take it back to my dorm room to draw it. Unlike a lot of artists, I was also always really good at and very interested in math. I may be the only art major who actually took calculus as an elective in college. When computers became easily accessible, I was immediately hooked. But it took quite a few years before my art and my computers joined forces. My undergraduate studies (University of Georgia) were in fine art – drawing and painting and my graduate studies (Savannah College of Art & Design) were in fibers. In between I’ve also flirted with printmaking, ceramic sculpture and jewelry. But drawing was always my first love. My first job when I finished grad school was for an apparel company in Alabama, designing t-shirts for organizations like National Audubon Society, Ducks Unlimited and The Nature Conservancy. Getting paid to draw plants and animals all day? Yes please! I got the job based on my drawing and (limited) design...
Ledger Girls Book

Ledger Girls Book

Buy Now, Publications, Sketchbook

You know what would make an excellent gift? A book of my Ledger Girls drawings! I have designed this 20 page 8 x 8 inch hardcover book of my drawings and had it printed using Shutterfly. For the price of one framable print, you can have a book of the entire collection! Interested?  Use the PayPal button here to purchase one for $35. If you are local, I will bring it to you. If you want it shipped, we can work that out....