B from my ‘ABC’s of Beeing … Enjoy and feel free to share.
be brilliant
Peace and be well.
the ABC's of BEEing ...
In light of our new normal and our need to stay home and be social distance for the foreseeable future, I decided this is a perfect time to work on one of my projects that has been percolating in my brain for YEARS!
Introducing my first go at a coloring book (drum roll please …)
the ABC’s of BEEing
This coloring book will feature positive and inspiring states of being as well as celebrating the nature and the wonders and importance of bees. My plan had been to publish the book and donate a percentage of the sales to help the survival of bees, however with the current state of the world, I want to offer the pages to any and all who would enjoy them. Coloring is a good 'social distancing' activity AND coloring is a proven activity that can lessen our stress and anxiety!
A - be AUTHENTIC
And as creating coloring pages is a new endeavor for me I would SO appreciate any feedback -such as: black lines are too thick, needs more smaller areas to color or more larger areas?!? I would SO appreciate any feedback -I’m open for all suggestions ~ thank you!
remember what peace there may be in silence ... this month
Here is my monthly calendar that I post for my followers to download and use for their personal enjoyment. Since the new year I have been highly inspired by Max Ehrmann’s poem Desiderata. Hence the past months’ calendars have been inspired by a line from this text, and March is no difference.
So please feel free to download and enjoy this printable calendar.
Happy March and peace, Virginia
Good-bye 2018 & hello 2019!!
As we head into 2019 I am excited to be part of a creative community called IlloStories put together by two lovely and talented illustrators - Deborah Stein & Erica Root . For the entire year IlloStories will present themes and prompts to help us inspiring illustrators create exciting and new work for our portfolios.
If you are interested in joining the fun join the IlloStories facebook group, and keep an eye out for all the work with the tags @illostories #IlloStories on FB and instagram.
I tend to do well with challenges and prompts (it is my love for being a student :) Below are my #topnine from my instagram feed and 3 come from Creativebug’s class, Daily Painting Challenge: 31 Painted Patterns with Lisa Congdon and one of my illustrations that I did in Lilla Rogers’ Make Art That Sells Bootcamp. So it will be fun to see what will come from IlloStories .
Thank you & peace,
Virginia
this is my ‘top-nine’ from my instagram …
This is my final submission, created with a technique that I love, watercolor and resist to create a batik outlines. I then add color with watercolors, inks and metallic pens. After that I scanned the painting and did some editing in photoshop.
Journal cover for MATS' bootcamp
This year I have joined a most talented group of illustrators and artists in one of Lilla Roger's Make Art That Sells classes. Lilla leads a number of online classes to help illustrators find their niche and improve their portfolios, two things that I need to do.
The bootcamp is a 5 month program with one big assignment each month with a mini assignment to get the juices flowing. This month the mini was to draw anything 'tea' related which prepped us all for the big assignment:
“Create a journal cover around the theme of reading tea leaves. Feel free to use your art from the mini or make new art. ”
below are some of sketches and paintings that I did working up to my final piece ...
holiday window contest
in a few hours the polls will close for this years Natick Center Cultural District's Holiday window contest and no matter where you are you can vote!!! Here are some pictures of the holiday windows from Renew Arts & Industry which your's truly created. :)
And here is a bit of info about the contest and the link to vote ...
Natick Center Cultural District is happy to announce it's 6th annual Holiday Window Contest! This contest offers the businesses and favorite places downtown a chance to win the title of "Best Holiday Window 2017", be recognized in a special ceremony, win a NCCD 2018 membership, and have their business name engraved on the Holiday Window Contest trophy!
It's not going to be easy to choose but vote for your favorite window beginning on Nov. 26th at 6:00 pm. (Voting will close on December 10th at 6:00 pm.)
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZJY2JPW
Help your favorite business by voting soon and keeping Natick looking merry and bright for the holidays!
#dailydressseries at Uni-T, at the Natick Mall
today I dropped off a number of 5x7 matted photographs of some of my #dailydressseries
to add to my window installation at shop Shop Uni-T , they have a selection of dailydress notecards as well. all the photos are from the ever growing collection of ephemeral dresses made during my everyday journey. to see more, check out my instagram feed, virginiacreates
top left: beach muse ...
top right: from the ground up
lower left: wedding dress
lower right: on thin ice
ducks in a row ....
during the course of the past years my blogs have multiplied, to the point that maintaining them has become daunting. and since one of my intentions for 2017 is to get my social media ducks in a row i am combining my many blogs and putting them here on my new website!!
all this online 'stuff' take time, but my hope is that a year, 2017, is an adequate time to set up my new website, set-up and open my Etsy shop, or at least an online store and get back to blogging, because i truly enjoy blogging.
during this change-over process i am aware of all these 'rules' and routines about social media and how having all this noise in my head has nearly paralyzed me, so i am trying to get back to basics, what is important ... so let's see how this goes.