designs

Today would probably be the ideal example day for living in the Tuscan hills of Italy – sunny warm and happy bright weather. It’s the scene I think folks probably picture in their minds when I say that I live in Tuscany. You can almost feel the warm sun on your skin, hearing the birds [...]

Posted on April 7, 2010 at 4:03 pm

So I’ve always loved the look of dip pen handwriting, reminding me of the time when traditional correspondence was the norm. Unfortunately, my touristy-bought Italian dip pen set has been collecting dust in a box. I have really bad hand control and found it so difficult to write anything at all. Perhaps I was too [...]

Posted on March 31, 2010 at 12:35 pm

Things are still a bit messy in my workspace, but I’ve been testing printing on canvas paper which is pretty darn cool!  I used to not like the canvas texture when painting and wanted to cover it up with globs of paint, but now the texture is sort of nice to me.  BTW I just [...]

Posted on March 18, 2010 at 12:57 pm

I think that I’m coming near to the end of this specific graphic art print series, Notes to Myself.  Here’s the latest called, It’s Okay To Cry.  I think sometimes we have to remind ourselves that.  It’s not about weakness or being over emotional.  It’s simply another form of expression and I think it is [...]

Posted on March 9, 2010 at 11:59 am

Today was feeling a bit down with the gloomy rainy weather.  I’m ready for Springtime, but apparently there’s still a lot of cold weather to come.  I decided to make myself a new desktop wallpaper, something cheery. I ended up with this design – sort of calming cheery and I thought I would share it [...]

Posted on March 3, 2010 at 8:25 pm