Tag: my art journal

  • Get Messy Pattern Play Workshop

    Get Messy Pattern Play Workshop

    Join me this August for an pattern-based art journaling workshop with Get Messy! My lesson, Pattern Play: Security Envelopes dives into one of the most ubiquitous art supplies around. Together, we’ll get inspiration, create our own collage materials, and create two different art journal spreads. I’ll also walk through all…

  • How to Paint Like a Child

    How to Paint Like a Child

    Children’s art is one of my greatest inspirations: it’s intuitive and impulsive, without the confines of “should” and “can’t”. Kids don’t have any sense of limitation, or any reason to doubt their own abilities. Picasso famously said “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist…

  • Buried the Lede

    Buried the Lede

    From this quarter’s newsletter: While the beginning of the year felt impossibly long, I’m frankly a bit stunned that we’re already here, mid-March, nearly a quarter of the way through 2024. Spring, though, is my favorite season and I’m working hard to stay present, appreciate the small things (like bees…

  • Hawaii & Iceland Art Journals

    Hawaii & Iceland Art Journals

    While I post my art journal pages regularly on my Instagram, I realized I haven’t shared a dedicated art post here in months. (Can I blame it on all this change?!) At the end of April, I finished up my Hawaii art journal, named — like those from the past…

  • Growing Pains

    Growing Pains

    From my fall 2023 newsletter: I’ve been reminded again and again these past few months of how messy life is. How infinitely complex humans are. How none of us truly know what we’re doing, but we’re doing it anyway. (Go us.) And how art and friends and pets and glimmers help us through, one…