Posted in art licensing, Collections, illustration, sketching, tagged art, art collection, art licensing, collections, cupcake, cupcakes, drawing, sketch, sketching, sweetly refined, sweets on September 2, 2010| 6 Comments »
Some of my preliminary sketches for my new collection.
drawing and wardrobe inspiration
cupcakes in every flavor
heavenly cupcake
how many flavor cupcakes are there?
drawing and head dress inspiration
close up of her cupcake head dress
yum
I could draw cupcakes for days
scoutie girl & cupcake
how can I help you?
Posted in art, art licensing, illustration, sketching, tagged art, art licensing, cherries, cherry, design, draw, drawing, fruit, illustration, illustrator, sketching, strawberries, watermelon on August 18, 2010| 2 Comments »
When I got a request asking for fruit artwork by noon tomorrow. My response was let me see what I can pull together. When in fact, I didn’t have any fruit artwork, but I do now.
Here are a few of the designs I was able to whip up in one night. Of course, if I had more time I would of been able to do more, featuring a larger varieties of fruit but all in all I’m pretty happy with what I was able to do while burning the midnight oil. Hopefully my client is just as happy with my results.
Hurry up and draw some strawberries!! Who doesn't love strawberries?!
...And watermelon. I love watermelon
Design featuring some cherries I had initially drawn for my Cowgirl Tales Collection. I was glad I had at least something I didn't have to completely create from scratch.
Posted in art licensing, design, products, tagged art, art licensing, Christmas, christmas tree, design, gift wrap, Holiday, holiday tree, illustration on August 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Some new holiday gift wrap designs that I recently did for Earth Balance Bag Company are now available for wholesale orders on their site.
Geo Trees gift wrap designed for Earth Balance Bag Co.
Holiday Tree Jubilee gift wrap designed for Earth Balance Bag Co.
Posted in illustration, Surtex, The Business Side of Things, Trade Shows, tagged art licensing, Christy Hess, illustration, surtex, trade show, UArts on July 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Posted in art licensing, illustration, Surtex, Trade Shows, tagged art licensing, Art Licensing Story, Artist Tara Reed, illustration, inspiring, inspiring positivity, positivity, surtex, trade show, video on July 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
On the last day of the Surtex Show Artist Tara Reed came by with her camera in hand and persuading me to do a video for her art licensing stories series. It was great to finally meet Tara in person, after knowing her for a few years in the online virtual community, and I was happy to do it. Tara’s an awesome lady who’s positive energy is truly refreshing and completely contagious!! I love her eternal optimism. I truly believe that you need to put positive energy out into the world if you would like to receive it.
Posted in art licensing, illustration, Surtex, The Business Side of Things, Trade Shows, tagged art licensing, design, freelance, illustration, learnings, positive thinking, projecting positive energry, surtex, trade show on June 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I can’t tell you how glad I was to see that my palette of artwork and supplies made it to the Javtis Center safe and sound. It was there waiting for me when I arrived to set up on the Friday before the show. I had done a ton of preparation but still was a bit unsure how I was going to hang everything. I had packed a variety of supplies with and I had a few ideas, but knew I wasn’t going to really know until I was there and doing it. In the end I actually winded up using the T-Pins that I threw into the box at the last minute on a whim. I had a lot elements that needed to be hung and adjusted and I could not have done it with out the help of my two college friends, Christy & Dominick. They were willing to take the time to be with me throughout the entire show, while my husband Jay was taking care of my daughter, Ava Blu and holding down the fort at home.
Being a first-timer I wanted to share with you some of my logistical learnings.
My top 5 logistical learnings:
I met some amazing people and walked away with solid leads and prospects to follow up on. I had a great experience and left the show feeling energized, excited and a bit tuckered out but ready to work on what’s NEXT.
I’m a firm believer in positive thinking & projecting positive energy so I’m confident that all of my hard work will pay off.
Posted in art licensing, illustration, Press, Surtex, Trade Shows, tagged art licensing, illustration, press, print & Pattern, total art licensing, write up on May 14, 2010| 2 Comments »
Check it out!!
I have a write up in Total Art Licensing page 26 (and my ad on pg 64)!!!!!
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4cfe6a67#/4cfe6a67/27
And mentioned on Print & Pattern (right next to my boothmate no less!!):
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