The Kingdom of Beck

I was going through an old tablet of marker paper the other day and found these sketches. They were for a t-shirt design I did for one of the residence halls at Kutztown University. They ended up going with the one with the dragon on it. More t-shirt designs coming soon...hopefully...

Wedding season continues

One of my friends asked me to paint some wine glasses and design a wine bottle label for a wedding gift she was putting together...

Independence Day in the park

Being the Fourth of July, I thought Valley Forge Park would be an appropriate place to go. Plus it was gorgeous out, and Valley Forge is such a nice place to take a walk. While I was there I did a quick chalk pastel sketch and took a few pictures...

Sometimes You Gotta Stop and Smell the Roses

Like I said in yesterday's post, things have been pretty crazy lately. And if you're like me, when you're so busy you think there could never be enough hours in the day, you tend to get stressed and start to forget to keep things in perspective. So today I decided to stop and take the time to appreciate whats around me. It was such a gorgeous day, so I decided to go for a run and do some sketches at Valley Forge Park. This is a sketch I did of the National Memorial Arch, and a few pictures I took in the park.

Viva Mexico

Things recently have been pretty crazy, hence the lack of recent blog activity. I just moved, and while going through some of my art stuff from college, I came across my sketch book from when I studied abroad in Mexico. The trip was a 17 day "sketch book tour of Mexico" with a group of fellow Kutztown CD (Communication Design) students and our professor (whom we affectionately dubbed "Tio"). We visited three cities, Queretaro, Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende, all located in central Mexico, and were submersed in Mexican art and culture. Visiting local museums, restaurants, art exhibits, and even an old mine and Gorky Gonzalez's pottery studio, we got to sketch some pretty incredible things. It was about this time three years ago that I took this trip, so I thought it would be appropriate to post a few of the sketches from my sketch book. Maybe some day I'll get to go back and fill the rest of the book...

Sketch of a church in Queretaro, at "Capilla del Cerro de las Campanas" (the Hill of the Bells)

Sketch of "El Teatro Juarez" in one of the squares in Guanajuato

View from the roof of our host family's house in Guanajuato

I thought the tiles on a table at our hotel in San Miguel were interesting...

The tiles in the bathroom were pretty, too

Sketches from some artifacts we saw at a museum in Guanajuato

More artifacts from the museum...I loved all the different faces!

Invitations are Done!

After much hard work and many late nights filled with spray adhesive and x-acto knives, my brother's wedding invitations are finished and mailed out. Both my brother and his fiance are very happy and say that they are still getting compliments on them. Success!

I Heart Chalk Pastel

I was looking through some old photos today and came across these pictures of some chalk pastels I did a while ago. I forgot how much I love working with chalk pastel, and it makes me want to do another one. Now if I could only decide what the subject of my next one should be...