Category: Art & Design

  • Product Concept Art: Farm Fresh Fun

    Product Concept Art: Farm Fresh Fun

    I’m so excited to share product concept art from the Make Art that Sells class I just finished! I’ve been in the live Home Decor class for the past chunk of weeks, and it was so much. So much learning. So much art. So much work. So much fun. We created home decor product concept…

  • Design Inspiration: Simple Patterns from Around Our Home

    Concentrating on simple patterns this week, and I just wanted to share some design inspiration of various repeats and cool surface design reference you can find around our home – enjoy! Some people update the pillows on their couches and beds all the time, and I think I may get into that soon… because how cute…

  • Cute Drawings – Farm Theme Illustrations

    I’ve been burning the midnight oil working on cute drawings for Make Art that Sells over the past few weeks! Pages and pages of preliminary work happen over the span of a few days. Tons of cute drawings – I’m talking… TONS. And not all of it ends up getting used in the final work!…

  • Art Inspiration – Our Chickens and Chicken Coops

    I’m currently working my way through the Lilla Rogers Make Art That Sells Home Decor class. At the end of the next five weeks, I’ll have a brand new group of fun artwork to share with art directors! But first, you gotta pick a theme for the collection. You need art inspiration. We were given…

  • Building Illustrations for Hartford Healthcare

    I don’t think I showed you these building illustrations I created for Hartford Healthcare last year yet! I had a blast drawing these in early 2015 for use in a magazine ad. The separate drawings were hand drawn, then colored in Photoshop in layers, which would allow the client to edit the colors of the…

  • Happy New Year, you party animals!

    Here we are, at the end of another year! 2015’s been good to our family. Phil started school with a vengeance, and is rocking our socks off with how much he’s learned in fi- OH MY LORD HE’S BEEN IN SCHOOL FOR FIVE MONTHS ALREADY. We had tons of great projects, and saw our second…

  • Red and Purple Color Inspiration

    I’m excited to share work I’ve been doing as a part of the Lilla Rogers Make Art that Sells classes in upcoming posts! In the meantime, today I’m gathering red and purple color inspiration for my next project. I’m looking for great examples of the colors together, and individual shades and textures to work into…

  • Discover the Pantone Color of the Year for 2016

    It’s that time of year again, and I don’t mean Christmas shopping. I’m talking about the Pantone Color of the Year. Actually this year, colors, with an s. There are two colors for Pantone’s Color of the Year 2016. Bizarre, right? Rebelling against their own rules by choosing two instead of one. Woah. Before I get…

  • Getting Set Up on the Directory of Illustration

    Spending a little time this morning getting myself set up with some new advertising through the Directory of Illustration; I’m pretty excited about the prospect of bringing in even more drawing projects for 2016! I don’t typically spend anything on advertising – the combo I’ve been rocking of social media, blogging, and referrals from our…

  • Free Turkey Coloring Pages for Thanksgiving

    Free Turkey Coloring Pages for Thanksgiving

    Looking for some free turkey coloring pages for Thanksgiving for the kids? I’ve totally got you covered with one of the most fun things I’ve drawn lately. (shhhh… it’s ok if these turkey coloring pages are really for you. I won’t tell a soul.) Yesterday, I was doing a little creative warm up in the…

  • Fashion Illustration Project: The Wardrobe Bible

    As I’ve been working on implementing the awesome Pinterest style scrolling powers of the new illustration portfolio, there’s a few older projects that need to get added that I never really got a chance to tell you about! First up is a fashion illustration project I worked on for Nicole Longstreath called The Wardrobe Bible.…

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