JOURNAL — Art

Rare Bird Co. Studio Newsletter #3 Happy March, here’s some recent happenings from the Rare Bird Co. studio + some fun links and inspirations around the web. The 100 Day Project Days 1-9 of the 100 day project I’m participating in #the100dayproject hosted by Lindsay Jean Thomson. If you’ve never heard of it, the basic idea is just to do something, usually art related, for 100 days and share it. So far I’ve made 3 painted collage pieces, 3 digitally illustrated drawings, then 3 more painted collage pieces. I’ve just naturally been working in multi-piece chunks and switching back and forth...

Rare Bird Co. Studio Newsletter #2 Happy February, here’s some recent posts from the Rare Bird Co. Journal + some interesting links around the web. Starting a journal and ideas for what to write in it (My beautiful new olive green notebook, isn't she pretty) A few weeks ago, I came into my daughter's room and was pleasantly surprised to find her journaling. About a year ago, we had started journaling together. We both had gotten new notebooks for Christmas and we were on vacation with plenty of time to kill. We enjoyed doing a few journal entries together, but...

Currently, I am working on posting more to the journal/ blog section of our website. I am calling this my online journal.  The problem with social media for artists Lately, there's been a lot of talk about social media and Instagram and sharing online. Is it dead and what are we going to do next? Where are we going to go next as artists and creative businesses that share online? Carson Ellis wrote a lovely comic about it here. Kristen Drozdowski quit instagram last year and wrote about her experience since quitting here. Some interesting food for thought. Coinciding with...

It's one of my goals this year to make my art practice front and center in my work days. I can get caught up in all the other aspects of running a creative business (ie. administrative task, packing and shipping, social media, research, etc) that I leave little room for the actual creative part. As I’ve been slowly moving away from social media, I’ll plan to post weekly to monthly round ups of art that I’ve been working on lately here in the journal.  New line art style drawing In the past few weeks I've been interested in making art...

‘Reflections on art process and making connections through subject matter’ Some reflections today while packing up a couple wholesale orders for art prints from my studio + shop Rare Bird Co.  For those who don’t really know what that means - I sell my work (art, jewelry, accessories, home decor, etc) to shops around the country. It’s one of the ways I earn income as a designer/artist. As opposed to selling my products straight to the customer, I also sell my products to shops (both brick and mortar and online shops) and they sell my goods to their customers. It's...