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 Just a little medal for making it to 2024 even if it was exhausting to do so. Sometimes you just have to celebrate getting there. Digital, December 2023 posted January 2024 |  This is such an extensive inside joke that I'm not sure how to properly explain this. I made this for Libearty as a joke that evolved during their subathon and the first time they tried to use it it immediately crashed their computer. Digital, January 2024 |  For the color Aussie red gold. Aussie red gold is my favorite orange to use on my palette and my first thought was a hot glass of apple cider! Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, January 2024 |
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 For the color Aussie red gold. This is a gummy bear from my favorite brand, Albanese (not a sponsor but would love to be). I went through a bag of gummy bears and picked out all the orange ones for my friend Lib because it's their favorite flavor and one I dislike. I sent them the gummy bears and this painting as a gift! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, January 2024 |  For the color Aussie red gold. I've been wanting to work more embroidery into my general art since fiber art is the medium I'm actually trained in. I did a little mushroom colored log for this one and am so happy with how it turned out! Quilt cotton and cotton embroidery floss, January 2024 |  For the color Aussie red gold. Another quilt block with some fun patterns! Watercolor and colored pencil on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper with cotton embroidery floss, January 2024 |
 I've been wanting to make some more wearable art and decided to see if I could make the smallest watercolor painting I've ever made that would fit in a set of pendant blanks I got. I did it and it looks great! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, January 2024 |  The ice cream painting placed in the pendant and sealed with resin. |  For the color Robin Egg. This is another addition to the body patches I've done in the past that take inspiration from girl/boy scout patches and acknowledge people dealing with chronic pain problems. This one is for people with nerve pain. Digital, February 2024 |
 For the color Robin Egg. This is a sheet of some assets I made to start working on a digital journal for mood, habit, and general brain tracking. I have to work on my own mental health a lot and I'd like to take some of the tricks I've learned for myself and make them accessible to other people! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, February 2024 |  For the color Robin Egg. More assets for the journal project I'm planning. I was so pleased with how that whale came out that I turned him into a very handsome sticker! Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, February 2024 |  For the color Robin Egg. The breakfast food pattern I did for this one was a huge fan favorite so I may have to recreate it! Watercolor and ink on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper with cotton embroidery floss, February 2024 |
 For the color Burnt Sienna. Burnt sienna is such a nice warm color I thought it would look really good on a roast chicken! I had a quote from one of my dreams I thought would go well with it to make a sticker too - don't butcher yourself for someone else's table. Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, March 2024 |  For the color Burnt Sienna. I had been working on a coloring book page for another project and was having trouble figuring out the right shape to make morel mushrooms recognizable so we did a watercolor study sheet with the color of the month! Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, March 2024 |  For the color Burnt Sienna. Another month another quilt block! Figuring out the "fabric patterns" is by far the most fun part of this for me! Watercolor, colored pencil, and ink on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper with cotton embroidery floss, March 2024 |
 This is a little chicken I drew as part of a Stardew themed art jam for a friend's birthday! I wanted to do a void chicken and make him the most rotund little guy you've ever seen. It's the void that loves you back! Digital, April 2024 |  For the color Apatite Green. I decided to paint a pickle! I think it came out really well and definitely shows a lot of progress in my color layering. This guy is also becoming a sticker! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, April 2024 |  For the color Apatite Green. This is a more abstract piece based of a photo I took of some loose leaf tea brewing. Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, April 2024 |
 For the color Apatite Green. I really like the shell pattern I did for this quilt block and am considering making it into a washi tape pattern! Watercolor and ink on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper with cotton embroidery floss, April 2024 |  For the color Apatite Green. This is a piece it took me two months to properly get completed. It's part of a Halloween themed coloring book project so you can look forward to seeing this line art and the finished piece as part of a kickstarter campaign later this year! Ink, watercolor, and gouache on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, April 2024 |  For the May Color in Focus: Prussian Blue. A painting based on a saying I have about people who meet and just match energies so well you feel like you've always known them, romantically or platonically. Watercolor and ink on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper, May 2024 |
 For the May Color in Focus: Prussian Blue. I love so many of the patterns I made for this quilt block, but the cows jumping over the moon was definitely a fan favorite! Watercolor and ink on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper with cotton embroidery floss, May 2024 |  For the May Color in Focus: Prussian Blue. This was a silly idea I had as I was thinking pleasant thoughts trying to fall asleep. The person I was thinking pleasant thoughts about helped me brainstorm and refine this design which is a nice little bonus. Digital, May 2024 |  For the May Color in Focus: Prussian Blue. This painting was the start of an idea for a greeting card I had about "opening your strongest mussel" to someone special since open mussel shells are a little heart shaped! I'm not sure it will actually end up as a card but it was a fun exercise! Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, May 2024 |
 A little card I made to get printed to send out with store orders! Watercolor, ink and colored pencil on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, June 2024 |  For the June color in focus Shock Pink. This is a broken heart lollipop that's a nod to one of my online friends and a discussion we had about what items in the world would represent our vibes. This was one of hers. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, June 2024 |  A detail shot of the broken lollipop for June's color in focus Shock Pink, showing the shine from the pearlescent watercolor on the twist tie. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, June 2024 |
 For the June Color in Focus: Shock Pink. This is a callback to a phrase I came up with as a teenager for the kind of flirty, teasing vibe where you're trying to tempt someone: deliciously malicious. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, June 2024 |  For the June Color in Focus: Shock Pink. Would you still love me if I was a worm? I combined that meme with the trend of just writing "would" under people you find attractive to make a silly little worm sticker design! Watercolor and ink on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper, June 2024 |  For the June Color in Focus: Shock Pink. There are a lot of options for the color pink and it was a delight to have some people help me out with picking the inspirations! Watercolor, ink, and cotton embroidery floss on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper, June 2024 |
 For the July Color in Focus: Cadmium Orange. This is a continuation of the silly little sticker designs I've really been enjoying doing. A nod to the "road work ahead" vine but with a little twist praying for my brain to work! Cadmium orange is really the perfect road sign color. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, July 2024 |  The first attempt at a painting for a sticker based off of my metaphor about burnout that went viral. I ended up not using this one and redoing it because I wasn't happy with how muddled the colors were turning out. I'm glad I decided to redo it because I love the final version! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, July 2024. |  For the July Color in Focus: Cadmium Orange. The final painting based off of my metaphor about burnout that went viral! "I have come up with a better metaphor than “you can’t pour from an empty cup” for burnout. You can’t boil an empty kettle. Pouring from an empty cup just gets you nowhere. Trying to boil an empty kettle can ruin the kettle, the stove, and burn down your house if you keep trying it." Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, July 2024 |
 For the July Color in Focus: Cadmium Orange. Just a little goldfish vibing alone in the water! This color is such a great one for a goldfish and I always loved the buggy eyed goldfish best. Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, July 2024 |  For the July Color in Focus: Cadmium Orange. Lots of oranges for this orange quilt block! Some classic creamsicles and orange slices. Watercolor, ink, and cotton embroidery floss on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper, July, 2024 |  For August's Color in Focus: Yellow Ochre. A selection of ice creams destined to become a sticker set! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024 |
 For August's Color in Focus: Yellow Ochre. A selection of ice creams destined to become a sticker set! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024 |  For August's Color in Focus: Yellow Ochre. A selection of ice creams destined to become a sticker set! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024 |  For August's Color in Focus: Yellow Ochre. A redesign of an old sticker design I made back in 2012 featuring a skull not of the Homo genus. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024 |
 For August's Color in Focus: Yellow Ochre. A complimentary piece to the No Homo, featuring a skull that is of the Homo genus! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024 |  For August's Color in Focus: Yellow Ochre. Both of the skull designs together! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024 |  For August's Color in Focus: Yellow Ochre. This is based off of the saying that I wrote in my journal one week about not stacking up to other people who don't match their expectations to what or who you actually are. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024 |
 For August's Color in Focus: Yellow Ochre. This is part of a trio based off of me and my partners. This one is mine! I love goats and oatmeal scotchies are my favorite kind of cookies. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024 |  For August's Color in Focus: Yellow Ochre. This is part of a trio based off of me and my partners. This one is for my boyfriend who I've assigned as a capybara both for his chill energy and because of his nickname. He absolutely loves coffee so this was the obvious pun! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024 |  For August's Color in Focus: Yellow Ochre. This is part of a trio based off of me and my partners. This one is for my girlfriend who is known as a bun to everyone and loves banana bread! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024 |
 For August's Color in Focus: Yellow Ochre. The whole trio together! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024 |  For August's Color in Focus: Yellow Ochre. This is the quilt block for August. I wanted to pay homage to ochre's long art history and prehistory with some Paleolithic cave art. Watercolor, ink, and cotton embroidery floss on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024 |  I had a silly idea for a set of stickers of fruit label stickers but featuring some sexually suggestive gay fruits, as a way to reclaim the word "fruit" that's often thrown at queer people in a derogatory way. This was my first idea: a papaya. Papayas are just very yonic so it seemed a good choice. Digital, August 2024 |
 This fruit choice is a little more obvious I think. Bananas are pretty obviously phallic. Digital, August 2024 |  Peaches are also an obvious choice, especially in emoji language. Digital, August 2024 |  I discovered while working on these that cherries have become emoji shorthand for boobs so decided to add them to the project at the last minute! Digital, August 2024 |
 I drew a buddy for my void chicken from April. One of my other friends is a huge Stardew Fan and an even bigger Shane fan, they requested a blue chicken when they saw my void chicken. I'm happy I had the time to do this because it turned out to be super cute and makes a great sticker! Digital, September, 2024 |  For September's Color in Focus: Cobalt Teal. This is part of a project to create a set of collectable trading bug stickers! The peacock jumping spider is the first to enter the fray. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, September 2024 |  For the September Color in Focus: Cobalt Teal. This is another bug friend to get added to the collectable bug sticker set - a peacock fly! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, September 2024 |
 For the September Color in Focus: Cobalt Teal. The third bug to get added to the collectable sticker set: a Canada Darner Dragonfly darning a sock. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, September 2024 |  For the September Color in Focus: Cobalt Teal. All bugs need a studio apartment with a skylight and 360 degree view of the surroundings. This is going to be part of the packaging design for Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, September 2024 |  For the September Color in Focus: Cobalt Teal. The final quilt block! This marks a whole 12 months of Color in Focus. This and all the other quilt blocks will be sewn together to make a large wall hanging. Watercolor, ink, and cotton embroidery floss on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper, September 2024 |
 The start of a collection of Alaska themed stamps to be made into collectable stickers! Eventually these will be added to my shop orders and hopefully be available for sale in person and around town! This is based off of a photo I took outside of the first house we lived in when we moved to Alaska. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, October 2024 |  Just a silly little design based off of a combo I saw from emoji kitchen, which combines different emojis like putting a cherry on top of a skull. This one became a sticker club sticker for my Patrons and is available as bookmarks! Watercolor and ink on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper, October 2024 |  The art for the December sticker club is both a little bit of a joke (getting fruitcake around the holidays) and a tribute to my grandma and mother. My grandma always made amazing fruitcake around the holidays, but can't anymore. The mug has a glaze pattern like my mom's favorite dishes had. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, October 2024 |
 The completed color in focus quilt! All 12 colors of a year plus some extra blocks using the same colors in the middle. This thing was a beast to put together but I'm so pleased with how it turned out! Watercolor, ink, cotton embroidery floss on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper, October 2023-October 2024 |  For the November 2024 Color in Focus: Nickel Azo Yellow. A little rubber ducky isopod taking a splish splash in a bath! This will be part of the set of bug collectable trading stickers I'm putting together. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, November 2024 |  For the November 2024 Color in Focus: Nickel Azo Yellow. Another stamp for the Alaska/Nature series! This one is based off of a photo I took at the Alaska Botanical Gardens in 2009 of a globe flower plant. They're such a striking yellow it was perfect for this color of the month. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, November 2024 |
 For the November 2024 Color in Focus: Nickel Azo Yellow. Some rubber ducky buttons with some button bubbles! Another nod to my mom who had some rubber ducky buttons in her button box when I was a kid and loosely inspired by a washi tape design I made in the game Sticky Business. This will hopefully be available for sale as a washi tape sometime in 2025 Watercolor and ink on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper, November 2024 |
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