Monday, October 5, 2015

Da-a-apper Goats

I entered a few designs in Sock It To Me's sock design competition this year, and I'm thrilled that my dapper goats pattern made it into the top 30!
You can see all the finalists here, and if you like my design, please Vote Goat! smile emoticon

Friday, October 2, 2015

Boo!




Hooray, one of the best days of the year is right around the corner!

Here's my fun & friendly Halloween clip art, now available in my shop.

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Thinking Spring



Spring is my very favorite time of year. And even though there's still a foot of snow on the ground where I am, it's so great to know it starts tomorrow!

I just added this sweet springtime clip art set to my Etsy shop. You can find it here.

Sunday, March 15, 2015

New Shop!


This week I took a leap & opened a little clip art shop on Etsy! So far I have exactly one item for sale -- this Easter set -- but I look forward to adding more in the next few weeks.

You can find me here.

For anyone who is thinking of joining Etsy, I have to say that they make it really easy to get started, and the community is so nice & helpful. And if you already have a shop, let me know!


Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Trends Workshop

Over the past few weeks, I took a terrific online course: Design Garden's 2015 Trends Workshop. It's an intense class that teaches you how to incorporate current and upcoming trends into your illustration and graphics. This is the second Design Garden class that I've taken. Last year I did the Foundation Vector Hand-Drawn Graphics class, which was also outstanding!

The Trends Workshop was four weeks long, and we created a new piece of work each week (I took the "live" version of the class, but it is also offered now as a self-paced course).

I absolutely loved learning about upcoming trends, how to do background research and work with inspiration boards, and how to combine trends to make them my own.

Here are a couple of examples of pieces I created during the course:

This is my clip art set inspired by the "Chic Modernist" and "Mosaic" trends. I wanted to create images that are quiet & (a little bit) elegant, but still in my style.




And for something a little different, here's what I came up with using the "Cartoon" and "Pop Art" trends. 


As you can see, the class really helped me to experiment & to bring out different sides of my art personality. :) 

Most importantly, the Trends Workshop taught me a totally new way to approach my projects — my head is spinning with new ideas! I loved it & can't recommend it enough!