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Over the moon! ...to collab with the very cool @dazey_la for their brand new Dazey Den! ✌️ I’ve created an exclusive painting collection in three sunny colors to bring the LA spirit to you wherever you are 😍 Available now at DazeyLA.com - link in profile 😊
Get excited! LA friends, come see me at @beachandbeverly in Hermosa Beach next Sat 1-5 pm! 🌊 A few of my recent embroidered paintings are for sale at this lovely shop, plus I’ll be hand-embroidering monograms and fun designs on your t-shirts, hats, dresses, bags, whatever ya got! Bring in something you love to add an artsy personal touch 🌈 And of course there will be cute clothes to try on and maybe a glass or two of wine 😉😉
Don’t forget to slow down and look at things closely! You never know what you’ll find
#regram 📷 @meganjennifer 🌵 I’m really feeling this goldy mustardy chartreusey beigey color these days...love that @meganjennifer ‘s shop is appropriately named @ochreshop 😉 The word ochre immediately makes me think of art history classes and buying my first “real” paints in college
Way to go! These ladies getting sh*t done at @bizbabez 🙋‍♀️ @kaseydreier and @la_anasheila are helping other boss babes chill out and de-stress. Check them out!
My hands are telling me they need a break after a full day of embroidery, so it’s onto many hours of Million Dollar Listing 🗽 + many chocolate chip cookies
Today, as part of @courtneypaigeray ’s story challenge, I’m sharing my favorite studio tools! To name just a few - paint, scissors, brushes, markers, thread, hot pink masking tape. ✏️ And since I don’t use canvas in a super traditional way, I’ve invented or repurposed a lot of my own tools too. I gave a straight pin some extra padding so I could use it more comfortably to make holes in my canvas. And for spreading paint I use rulers and plaster scraper thingies and recently bought a frosting spatula for the job. 👩‍🍳 For me, that’s the most exciting thing - when the process feels as creative and inventive as the outcome. #cprstorychallenge
The deeper we go into the virtual world the more I appreciate working with my hands. For four years at NYU I studied and analyzed art, film, literature and philosophy. No one loves constructing a solid argument more than I do. And contemplating art and ideas is such nerdy fun. Actually, more than fun, we see every day how incredibly important it is to move forward with sound logic, rather than blind will. 🧐 But the big reason I’ve made art my whole life is because I live for that feeling of my brain and my hands working together to create something. Like a real tangible, touchable something. 🔨 When you’re engulfed in the intellectual world, you’re made to believe that you’ve moved beyond physical work and you can’t go backwards. It took me years to unthink that idea of a progression. Physical work is no better or worse than intellectual, it’s just a different kind of playground to climb on. ✌️thank you @courtneypaigeray for inspiring me to share these ideas! #cprstorychallenge
These are all the little bits of leftover thread that I save along the way. I just love the way they look so much. 🎟 I used to be a huge collector of things (like every movie ticket stub from You’ve Got Mail through circa Bridesmaids...), but I’ve been joyously paring down in recent years, so the art studio is the last place where I still keep a few little treasures
Art is my antidote to perfectionism, I’m more than ok with a crooked line or a misplaced brushstroke. My paintings are made by a human (🙋‍♀️) and I always want that to show.
 
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