IF: Poise

This piece is titled "Elegance in Training"

She is just learning how to carry herself with poise.

Happy Spring

I was going through my portfolio and found an image that I thought would be fun to share for the first day of spring. Aren't we all just longing for some beautiful flowers to start blooming in the garden?!! Well, if your region of the country isn't quite warm enough for flowers to start blooming, here is an easy way to bring some flowers into your life by transforming an entry wall to look like a gigantic floral painting.

For this project, I used Wallies, oversized Wallpaper flower heads to create the illusion of a giant floral painting. I started by painting the wall with a drip paint treatment to mimic a painted canvas. I then determined the layout of my floral stems and painted the stems onto the wall. After the paint dried, I applied the Wallies flower heads onto the wall using a little water and a smoothing tool. It's that easy!!

Happy spring everyone! Now go treat yourself to some flowers today!!

Custom Altered Books

I just really love the process of creating altered books!

For some reason, I feel like there's something magical about working on the pages of an existing book. Maybe it's the fact that, in a way, I'm writing and illustrating my own book.

(which I'd love to do some day)

In this case, I created two custom altered books for a client and it was so much fun to tell their story through my artistic voice.

There is nothing like bringing a book to life through personal images and bits of information. It's so very exciting and I love the fact that when I begin a book, I never really know how it will turn out until I'm finished. The mystery of letting the story come to life while playing on the page is the most fun for me. The story magically unfolds as it's being created.

I hope you enjoyed this tiny peek into a few of my altered book creations. I will share more altered book pages from new books that I've been working on.

In the mean time:

By clicking on the images above, you will be transported to the gallery on my website where you can view more of the work I created in these two altered books.