The BOOK JOURNEY EXPERIENCE {studio notes ONLY}

During the CREATIVE PLAY ADVENTURE, I’ll be working on the IDEATION & gathering process of my next book. Fleshing out ideas, gathering images, content and designing the flow of my book.

Get an insiders view of my creative practice
Flip throughs of my art journals & sketchbooks
Creating an inspiration sketchbook in both physical & digital format
A tour inside my color paint making lab and studio

During THE COLOR ADVENTURE, I’ll be documenting and creating handmade paint color palettes from travel, landscapes, stories, and memories for book content. I’ll be...

exploring natural wild inks and foraged color
visiting a botanical garden
creating handcrafted watercolor palettes inspired by my experiences.

My handcrafted paint collections are created from memories or stories, each color palette reveals a special time, place, or idea from my past. This theme will be woven throughout my book and you’ll get to see some of this unfold during this part of the book-making journey.

During THE FREEDOM ADVENTURE, I’ll be experimenting with unconventional ways to combine my ideas, stories and artwork. Exploring all the possibilities.

A walk through inside my many inspiration sketchbooks
How I incorporate the iPad throughout my entire creative process
How I design and create book pages in Procreate
Refining the book content

THE CREATIVE PLAY ADVENTURE #1 ~ March 15 - April 9, 2021

A DEEP DIVE into CREATIVE PLAY through mark-making.

PAINT colorful stories. Explore gathering inspiration, ideation, storytelling, and motifs.

UNRAVEL the possibilities. the IDEAS. Brainstorming. Collecting INSPIRATION. Gather. Pieces. Capture. Stories unfold. Sketches. IMAGINE. Letting this project unfold through creative PLAY. a VISUAL vocabulary. Rummaging through art journals. WONDER. Two decades of handmade books. the evolution of ideas. Sunrise studio sessions. the FREEDOM to EXPLORE.

TOPICS EXPLORED: the creative process, unfolding a project, setting direction & tone, collecting stories, gathering inspiration, creative PLAY, art journals & sketchbooks

THE COLOR ADVENTURE #2 ~ April 19 - May 14, 2021

A DEEP DIVE into story + creating signature color palettes. Experiment mixing pigments, paints, and mixed media that tell your story or reveal a landscape.

CREATE. Piecing together. Stitching. a lifetime of COLOR. PIGMENTS. FORAGING finds. the garden. Movement. COLOR palettes. paint swatches. WANDERLUST. collections. Pigment from rocks. STORYTELLING with color. Creative process. WILD color. A colorful collage of MEMORIES collage. color STORIES. landscapes + color. EXPERIMENT.

TOPICS EXPLORED: color & landscapes, color palettes, stories associated with color, handmade paint, travel & wanderlust

THE FREEDOM ADVENTURE #3 ~ May 24 - June 18, 2021

A DEEP DIVE into art journals + digital mashups + mixed media + images + painting. Creating digital collage and playing with layers in Procreate.

Refine. DESIGN. a COLLAGE of memories. the book journey kit. composition. Pattern. FREEDOM. COLOR. Embellishment. Motifs. Prototypes. a blueprint. layout. OPEN to possibilities. a push & pull. a DANCE. Limitless. WANDER. explorations. beautiful LAYERS.

TOPICS EXPLORED: digital collage in Procreate, combining digital painting + mixed media, composition, cut & paste, building layers of interest in my book pages