first off, thank you for all of your nice comments about the poster in my last post! i wish i had one to give to each of you. i've emailed the winners this morning.
below are a few more of my pieces for the enormous tiny art show 11, opening next week at nahcotta.
celebrate, 8x8" unframed, 10x10" framed
miscellanea, 8x8" unframed, 10x10" framed
also:
one of my favorite recent tumblr finds, cubicle refugee
my heart is full of flowers, 8x8" unframed, 10x10" framed, headed for nahcotta's enormous tiny art show 11 next month.
thanks so much for your nice comments about my drawings in my last post. they meant a lot to me. for the drawing above i was thinking a little bit about valentines day, and wanting to do my own take on a heart. this is what i came up with.
and because a few people asked, there are prints of it here.
in other news, you might enjoy this:
i wanted to share a few drawings i've just finished. these are the first drawings i've been able to make in awhile, and it feels SO, so good to be working this way again. i've been trying a bunch of different things to help with my MS and subsequent decreased hand strength, and it seems to be working to some degree. these took a long time, kind of like knitting a sweater you pick up and put down, but i was really pleased to get them done.
these are headed for nahcotta's upcoming enormous tiny art show 11, which opens in february. i have a few more i'll post here soon too.
impervious, 8x8" unframed, 10x10" framed
island patchwork, 8x8" unframed, 10x10" framed
floriculture, 8x8" unframed, 10x10" framed
one thing i've loved to do over the past few years is to collaborate here and there with sarah parrott on some various wedding invitations. i've shared them here before, but not for quite awhile. sarah does a really beautiful job on everything she makes, and it is always fun to see how she incorporates my little illustrations into the overall finished product. for this set i was asked to draw some peacocks, clover and ferns. yes, please! it is a treat to see my line drawings letterpressed. i love how they turned out. all of these photos were taken by sarah and are shared here with permission.for more details about the specifics, please see sarah's post about it here.
and you can check out a few of our other collaborations here, here, and here if you're interested. this is the kind of work i love to do when i have time! so much fun.
i have a real thing for special rocks. they catch my eye on walks and hikes and i can't stop thinking about them. i bring them home and keep them around the house, in bowls and on windowsills, on my desk and in my pockets. the bigger ones are sometimes used as doorstops. a few years ago i went to brimfield with a few good friends where we did lots and lots of walking, and found myself complaining after a bit that my purse was feeling heavy. my friend betsy said, 'what do you have in there, a bunch of rocks?' i checked, and i did. d'oh. four or five of them. (it's another story that i wouldn't have cleaned out my purse before an epic day of walking around an enormous flea market.) i left some special rocks at brimfield that day. i hope whoever found them liked them as much i had.
striped lucky rocks and heart shaped rocks are my personal favorites. if they have double stripes, all the better.
i made a rather extensive list of a bunch of intentions for 2012 - big and small, some silly, some private. but one of them was to stop bringing rocks home. it's a hard habit to break, because i really like to draw rocks. a lot. especially the smoother, pebbly rocks. and i love the way they look on my windowsills and my dresser. but i think i have enough. probably. and we live near a national park, so i am trying to teach the kids to leave everything except garbage right where we find it. so in 2012 i'm taking pictures of the many rocks i have crushes on instead of bringing them home. you might see a few of them here once in awhile.
i've had some fun projects this past year, and one of my favorites was a papercut gift card and mailer i was asked to design for target. the kids and i went to our local (one hour away!) target store yesterday and there it was! it was pretty exciting to see it in person. i am super happy with how it turned out, and especially pleased with the embossed mailer. i love it!
if you happen to go looking for one, they're at the end of the aisles in bedding and small appliances (i think.)
it was fun to look back on the in progress photos from last summer and see how the project evolved from then to now.
wishing you and your family a very happy holiday and a cozy time together, however you celebrate.
xxoo
i am excited to share a few things i worked on earlier this year. the first is a papercut cover for kari chapin's second book, grow your handmade business, which will be coming out next summer. this was a really exciting project for me, because kari is someone quite dear to my heart. back in 2007 when i did renegade craft fair in brooklyn for the first time, kari was one of the first people to come in to my booth. she was kind and encouraging and she slightly decreased the terror i felt doing my first craft show. it's been fun to watch her success - and to see her write books and travel around the country giving advice on working in our handmade world. this book will be published by storey publishing, and i am at work on some interior illustrations now.
i also did a papercut for storey publishing's spring 2012 catalog cover. they've been great to work with, and i feel really lucky.
i finished my last craft fair/holiday sale of 2011 this weekend. i have a few more deadlines, but stuff's coming along well, and i'm hoping for a little time off here soon. looking forward to making some homemade gifts with the kids and staring at the twinkle lights. and hopefully working a deal out with my pandora holiday station that stipulates skipping over the trans siberian orchestra. pandora's been throwing me a few curveballs lately, but we're mostly getting along.
and i'm wondering what you're making for holiday treats and gifts this year?
