GirlMeetsArt

I did this print in 2001. It was originally a black monotype, but at the request of a friend who liked the design but also loved color, I applied washes of water color to give it its “tropical” feel. Hence the title: Tropical shoes. It hangs proudly in my friend’s apartment.

You may have noticed (or maybe not!) a watermark on many of my pieces of work. And maybe (again, maybe not) you’ve wondered what the heck it is.

A few months ago, I took a weekend workshop on printmaking using a hand drill on woodblocks to create imagery. The instructor, master printmaker Steve Prince, showed us a lot of his work, and the pieces included a stamp of something he called a “chop”: essentially, a graphic signature. This got me thinking and I decided to work up my own and apply it as a watermark for digital versions of my work. (more…)

J. Jill, a women’s clothing company, each year holds a “Nature of Compassion” contest to design a T-shirt that will be sold to raise money for homeless women. Each year has a different theme. I decided to use the contest to experiment with some of Illustrator’s tools I hadn’t used much: custom brushes and symbol sets and sprayers.

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