This little penguin is one of my favorite creations. He’s a little raw and unfinished but it was one of my first clay projects so I’m always a little surprised that he looks as cute as he does. I crafted him during a visit to the children’s museum with my niece and nephew. I’m not [...]
I’ve introduced a new embroidery pattern in my etsy store: “Bear in My Stocking”. It features my animal friend, Bailey, the Brown Bear, hanging out with a candy cane in a Christmas stocking. The photo shows an ornament I am making. I stitched this cute design in red, green, brown, and white using raised satin [...]
This fantastic candy portrait of Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog appeared on the side of a gingerbread masterpiece at the 2009 Gingerbread Village–held every year at the Seattle Sheraton in downtown Seattle. Created from an assortment of jelly beans, this piece of art is a very tasty interpretation of two of my favorite Muppet [...]
In art school, we explored the idea of the golden rectangle, a fascinating concept. In this piece of art I created as a student, I incorporated several design principles we had studied including repetition, texture, triadic color scheme, and contrast. The backgrounds and cutouts are all colorized photographs/scans. Digital art that is a combination of [...]
I’ve been thinking lately of new designs for my little penguin and here is the first of many: “P is for Penguin”. In the sample, I appliqued the letter P and the little penguin in soft flannel in baby colors. Then embroidered some details with seed stitch and outline stitch. This will become part of [...]
I recently finished a new embroidery pattern design: “Hug Me Penguin”. This design is part of a series of animal patterns I’m developing. My niece, Allyson, stitched this cute purple version as a gift for a friend. She used outline stitch and satin stitch on the pink background. The overall design she used is approximately [...]
I recently came across some amazing photos of art created by English artist Julian Beever. The butterfly above was drawn on a sidewalk in Mexico City. The artist draws anamorphic illusions “in a special distortion in order to create an impression of 3 dimensions when seen from one particular viewpoint.” See more of Julian’s stunning [...]