Copperplate Flourishes

These flourishes were done in W&N Imitation Gold Gouache with a pointed pen.  It has a nice shine and flows very smoothly through the pen.

Wedding Blessing Gifts

Allison and Jim gave these personalized framed blessings to their very special guests at their wedding.  Each was hand lettered in archival paint on heavy paper.  Congratulations, Allison and Jim!

Anniversary Love Poem

Friends of this couple had me create this anniversary certificate for them using a poem meaningful to the couple. I used gouache with brush florals and italic lettering.  The gold shine is W&N Imitation Gold Gouache.
Congratulations, Mike and Ellajean!

Wedding Name Cards

These little cards were ordered by the bride and groom and used as gift tags for their special guests' favors.  Done on cream-colored archival cards with Italic lettering in a deep sienna.

Traditional Invitation

This invitation for an event at The George Washington University was modeled after a handwritten note by Pres. George Washington.  It uses some of his personal shorthand and wording, and is written in Copperplate Script.
The hand addresses envelopes were done a little fancier, and hand delivered.

client: Joshua Levie with  http://jelcreative.com/

Spirit Flower

Another piece on the loss of a loved one.  Watercolor on Arches paper.
Text by B. Martin Stanton

Ceramic Pins

These majolica ceramic pins take their designs from ancient manuscripts and ceramics.  They were done with Amity Parks http://www.amityparks.com for a class we designed together.

Painting for Charlotte

Little Charlotte was born into a world of loving family and friends.  

Below is a sign for her door commissioned by a couple friends 

very excited to welcome her into the world.

The sign was painted onto a pre-formed wooden plaque from Michaels'.  I first sanded and primed it, then painted a coat of gesso for the background.  The painting is all in acrylic.  Some of the flowers are wooden pieces painted and glued on.  I sprayed a varnish on at the end to protect it.

Detail of a butterfly.

Orange Calla Lily Wedding Invitation

Congratulations, Kris and Thor!

How Beautiful Life is Baby Gift

Commissioned gift for new baby.
Watercolor on Arches cold pressed paper.

I Send Love to You

This piece was done for someone who lost a loved one.
 Such beautiful words by Rudolf Steiner.
 Watercolor and acrylic on Arches cold pressed paper.

Italic Calligraphy "Fun & Fancy"

I was snowed in for a few days this week... who would have thought it possible in Arizona?  And the power was out.  So I worked on this set of envelopes going to a client in Japan.  I chose my "Fun and Fancy" style that needed no light table or lines since I had no electricity.  All was so peaceful and quiet, spring colors of lavender and sage in the midst of snowy drifts.

St. Pat's Day Greeting

Lettering for a Printery House card.

What we know about our Irish heritage is very limited.  The great famine that sent many Irish immigrants to our US shores was not just the result of a potato blight.  " Thomas Gallagher points out in Paddy's Lament, that during the first winter of famine, 1846-47, as perhaps 400,000 Irish peasants starved, landlords exported 17 million pounds sterling worth of grain, cattle, pigs, flour, eggs, and poultry -- food that could have prevented those deaths. Throughout the famine, as Gallagher notes, there was an abundance of food produced in Ireland, yet the landlords exported it to markets abroad. "

"More than a century and a half after the "Great Famine," we live with similar, perhaps even more glaring contradictions. Raj Patel opens his book, Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System: "Today, when we produce more food than ever before, more than one in ten people on Earth are hungry. The hunger of 800 million happens at the same time as another historical first: that they are outnumbered by the one billion people on this planet who are overweight." 

Read this article by Bill Bigelow in the Huffington Post here

Don't Let Your Dreams Be Dreams

Acrylic and gouache on Arches paper.  Words from a song by Jack Johnson

Trader Joe's Signs 2

This is the third sign I did for my Trader Joe's application.  Watercolor and ink on paper.

Wedding Certificate

Wedding certificate with wild flower illustrations.

T-Shirt Calligraphy

Hobart and Suzy are actually a diswasher and sink

 at Chewonki, a small school in the woods of Maine.  

This is a T-shirt the students asked me to design for them. 

Love is a wonderful thing.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Beatles Calligraphy

Watercolor, Gouache on Arches.  Done to commemorate the passing of a kind friend.

This is a logo done for a firm in Mexico.  They manufacture beautiful natural looking stones, as well as work with  real stones on various architectural projects.  Great people, and great product!  Visit them here:  buenavistastone.com