WILDBRIDE collaboration

And continuing with the trend of rather late recaps of projects, here's another gem of a collaboration. Probably one of the highlights of 2016!

About this time last year, one of my favorite bloggers/Instagrammers, Liz Morrow, put out a request for contributions towards swag bags for her upcoming WILDBRIDE Retreats! I've been following her blog for years. Seriously, I remember finding her blog 4 years ago when I was working in my friend's yogurt shop and just devouring every post when I had down time (in between fro-yos). Roadtripping across the country in a vintage RV? Hard not to love her. 

Fast forward a month or so and I get a response from Liz about making some custom watercolor prints for all the retreat participants. An absolute dream collaboration! 

Liz's retreats were meandering from the Oregon coast to the California Redwood forests, then down to Joshua Tree and over to Sedona, Arizona. We decided to do a one-of-a-kind print for each gal in each retreat. A different watercolor for each retreat location and a different quote over-layed on top of it. I also found a longer quote that I fell in love with that became small one-of-a-kind prints on top of watercolored paper. 

These first 2 photos are mine but the bottom two are by Liz (who is a fantastic photographer). The retreats look like they were pretty incredible, with a rather impressive swag bag! Pop on over to the WILDBRIDE blog to read more about Liz's retreats and all the amazing swag! 

hello again hustle & bustle

Hello again. I've been back for two weeks three weeks almost a month (I've been trying and failing to write this post for that long...whoops). Honestly, it doesn't even feel like this summer ever happened. It's like this chunk in my recent memory is just misplaced...something has been forgotten. I've been carrying Quarto around with me to show family and friends what I did this summer and this sadly seems the only way to remind myself it actually happened. Everything has returned to the normal groove so quickly, it's like I never left. Oofah. 

I started my lessons with Arts Outreach my second week back and everything else has just been a blur of adjusting, car shopping, catching up, cleaning up and working. I may have been silent here on the blog but it has been a flurry of activity in the Art Bubble ever since I landed! Here's a little peek at what I have been creating these past few weeks. Surprisingly it has been a lot of illustrations for wedding invitations! SO fun! I still have a few more projects to share as well. And the new Fall line (and Holiday line!) will be making an appearance soon! 

My friend Dhvani commissioned me to make some watercolors and a map for her wedding invitations. This was the first time I watercolored a map...I may be a little addicted. It was pretty fun. Any other takers for watercolor maps?

This series of three watercolors was for a sweet lady named Karens. She had such a pretty vision for her invitations! The large watercolor of the country garden will be the background behind a laser cut gate sleeve. I can't wait to see the final invitations for both of these sweet ladies!