The Ill-Fated Navigator

I don't believe in getting lost. I believe in adventures.

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Happy Typography Tuesday! This is a really fun little flyer I worked on for the Venice Chorus (and it’s happening this weekend so if you’re hanging out on the west side of LA, come check it out). The theme of the show is “mixed tape” so I made the theme type look like an unraveled cassette tape. I also am obsessed with the font Hipton Sans and I was super excited to use it in a complimentary way with the flyer design. The color palette was inspired by Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel. I am super proud of this little design! 

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Friday Favorites: I wish I knew who this gentleman was. I want to share this little memory of Firenze and one of my walks along the Ponte Vecchio last October. Our apartment was just across the bridge, and I would sit on the balcony and listen to the street musicians every night. This moment is precious to me; I watch it over and over and it brings tears of pure love and happiness to my eyes every time. May this moment give everyone peace and hope today. And thank you, my mystery Italian banjo folk musician. Keep playing on the Ponte Vecchio for me!

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Happy Typography Tuesday everyone! I love doing hand-painted type, and I did this as a gift for the girl who I rent my studio from (we often refer to our Topanga Canyon sanctuary as “the Babe Cave”). This type of hand-lettering is a great excuse for me to pull out my watercolors and have some fun!

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FRIDAY’s FAVORITE: Lee Bontecou!!! She is my warrior woman of the art world. Whenever I need a little strength/inspiration, I turn on a little KidA by Radiohead and look through her retrospective book. Blows my mind every time. 

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Happy Typography Tuesday everyone! And Happy New Year to all type lovers! This was the new year’s promotional mailer design I created for Saputo Design’s Client readingglasses.com. Alas, it wasn’t the big winner, but I’m still pretty proud of this design and I wanted to share!

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Happy Typography Tuesday! This is one of my hand-lettered designs and is currently available in art prints and apparel on my Society 6 shop. This is my way of celebrating everyone’s inner cuddle monster through typography! 

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Finally got some more documentation of my recent oil paintings. This is one of my favorites. It measures 11 x 14 inches and it took roughly 80 hours of work to complete. This piece (along with a few other new ones) can also be viewed on my website.  

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Meet Raven. After 80 hours of painting over a period of roughly 7 months, I finally finished her. She is part of a series of oil paintings that I have been working on for the past two years. The paintings that are finished are already up on my website. 

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I named this drawing after a dear old friend. Something about it reminded me of her. For Carolyn Rose. 

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I had a couple vector illustrations of blue birds sitting around with nothing to do, and I thought of the song, "Blue Skies". I thought combining my blue birds with the lyrics would make a fun hand-lettering poster project. I plan to print this one out and hang it in my studio. It just brightens my day when I'm feeling stressed or blue. 

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This little project started as a concept for a cider label. Although it was rejected, I still loved the idea, and made the decision to do my own thing with the illustration. I adore her golden fro. 

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Quite possibly my favorite artist of all time is Dorthea Tanning. She was married to Max Ernst, another of my favorite artists. I came to know her work only last year, when I went to the female surrealists exhibition at LACMA. As I walked through each space, I always went straight for the piece that I learned to be hers. When I realized at the end of the exhibit her connection to Max Ernst, I cracked up. I have never been so magnetically attracted to two artists as much as these two. 

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This was a fun little project. I had this awesome unused illustration of an angry bear sitting around, and I thought it would be fun to give him a context. 

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This is Natasha. I like to think of her as my Roman Gypsy. 

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Spangled & Plumed

I created this piece for the 3 of Spades for Playing Arts, an artist-drawn card deck! Take a look at the other (amazing!) submissions that have been released so far here! You can also read a bit about my process for creating this piece and some interesting facts about starlings, and support the project on Kickstarter.

prints are available at my Society6 shop.

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Let it be known: This might be my new favorite artist. Truly beautiful work. 

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This is Anna. I started working on her a year ago, and I just recently added her finishing touches.

Sometimes, I will work on a piece intensely for weeks when suddenly I need to walk away from it, sometimes for months or years. I never rush a piece that needs time to decide what it wants to feel complete.