Mercedes Helnwein

Check out Mercedes Helnwein, an amazing figure and portrait artist.  She is based in L.A. and her artwork is incredibly realistic and yet stylized at the same time.  I am in love with her work!

I is for Island

Isn't this print adorable?  It is designed by Paul Thurlby, a graphic designer from London.  He has designed the whole alphabet in such a whimsy and fun way!

Check out some of my favorites:

Pretty clever ideas, don't ya think?

Typography Portraits

I am always perusing the internet looking for cool ideas for projects to do in my high school art classes.  Recently I came across this site on typography portraits.  Such a cool and innovative way to do a portrait! Check it out if you get a chance!

Have a lovely day!

Items on my desk....

Here are some items that were on my cluttered desk tonight.  I am really trying to do something creative every day  (New Year's Resolution!) and so I decided to do a little still life drawing.  Of course the paper I used was a little larger than my scanner so some of my drawings are cut off...next time I will use smaller paper:)

Hope your day was wonderful...will post more drawings soon!

Keepin' Warm!

Here in Ohio it is quite cold!  All I can do is sip on some coffee or peach green tea:)  Hope you are staying toasty warm wherever you may be!

The song  title Antarctica by the The Weepies reminds me of Ohio in the wintertime...brrrrrr!

Amazing Letters

I was perusing one of my favorite blogs, Sfgirlbybay, when I came across this post on typography.  I am in love with lettering and instantly fell in love with Jessica Hische's Daily Drop Cap.  So amazing and so talented!  Enjoy!

Ordinary to EXTRAordinary

Happy Saturday! Hope everyone has had a pretty restful New Year weekend!  I know for me it is going to be pretty hard getting up very early Monday morning for work.  I have been sleeping in until 8:30 every morning (it feels so good to do this!)  To get myself back into the work mode I recently updated my school blog with some of my student's artwork.  If you get a chance please check it out here.

I have the best students this year and am so proud of them:) It has been kind of hard to update both this blog and the school blog- but I am trying!

Have a lovely Saturday!

New Years Resolutions

What are your New Years Resolutions?

Winter

It is official...Winter is here to stay for awhile! In Ohio we barely had any snow before Christmas but on December 26th, we started to get the lovely white stuff. I love snow...I think it is beautiful!

Here is some winter-inspired pictures:

View from my kitchen window into my backyard


Some beautiful snow covered trees in my backyard


Snowflakes!



These little still- lives in my kitchen remind me of winter. I just love white on white! I think it looks so clean and fresh!



Well I am off to run outside in the snow! Here is a song I will be listening to on my run:



Have a lovely day:)

Pretty Things I Adore

Just thought I would post some pretty things I found while online shopping! Enjoy!


Spinning Jenny Heels in Roan from Mod Cloth


Metal Rose Studs from Urban Outfitters


Tulle Roses Tee from J Crew

I adore this whole outfit. I think it would be great for work. It is classy and cute:)

Outfit by J Crew

I will post more fun things I find online later!