Nursery paintings

My long-time friend, Denae, had her baby shower this weekend. She had asked me awhile back if she could commission me to do some paintings for her baby’s nursery. I thought, yeah, and actually that would be a good gift for me to give her for her shower. So she sent me some color [...]

Globe Art

I love globes. I love them big, small, old, and new. I have been collecting them for the past couple of years. I have way too many for my small apartment to hold. I’ve been seeing some neat things done to globes on Pinterest and thought I might try something out!

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Chalkboard painting

Over the weekend, I acquired a chair. This is no ordinary chair. I’ll blog about this chair later. But it’s awesome. It’s green and awesome. I’m now rearranging my living room around this chair. I had a large painting on my wall that I did probably 6 years ago. It was painted pinks and [...]

Bored. Board.

After my art show, the thought of ever painting again made me want to puke. Well, maybe that’s a little strong. But I was worn out. I had spent every spare minute of my time painting. I painted during lunch breaks from work, I painted after work, I painted on the weekends. Board after [...]

He was the first president to have a beard.

Welcome back to another segment of “styled”. This week I’ll be showing you how to take a black and white portrait and convert it into something with a little more punch. You can use these tips for a painting or for treating your favorite photographs.

For an example, I’ll show you a recent project [...]

Welcome to styled

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Jessie’s sister Emily. Since Jessie and Josh will soon be a family of five (if not already by the time this posts) they have asked me to step in and contribute to the blog. Since I’m definitely not as distinguished a writer as Jessie, Josh, [...]