The first project of Color in Focus! A quilt block using burnt umber. The paper was painted with a pattern, cut, and then sewn together with embroidery floss just like fabric would have been. This was also part of StreamINK 23. Watercolor, ink, and embroidery floss using 300lb coldpress watercolor paper. October 2023	A smoking marshmallow utilizing the Color in Focus of the month: burnt umber. This piece was also part of StreamINK 23. Watercolor on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper. October 2023	A bearded iris using Violet. I made this as kind of a tribute to my mom who loved bearded irises and the iris gardens were a regular Mother's Day visit location when we lived in Oregon. Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. November 2023
A bootylicious gengar featuring the Color in Focus of the month: Violet. Alcohol marker, colored pencil, and ink on 50.5lb marker paper. November 2023	A terrarium using violet to display a selection of mushrooms, crystals, and a rat skull. This was also made into a sticker! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. November 2023	Another quilt block featuring the Color in Focus: Violet. The paper was painted with a pattern, cut, and then sewn together with embroidery floss just like fabric would have been. The plan is to get a year's worth of quilt blocks and sew them all together into a large wall hanging. Watercolor, ink, and cotton embroidery floss using 300lb coldpress watercolor paper. November 2023
A piece about not letting other's refusal to grow as a person hold you back from your own growth, using the Color in Focus of the month: New Leaf Green. Watercolor, ink, and colored pencil on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. December 2023	A tree frog made using the Color in Focus: New Leaf Green. This guy (nicknames Hopbert) is part of a sticker sheet and will hopefully be appearing on more stationary in the future! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. December 2023	A page of various critters that all feature New Leaf Green! These have been made into an encouraging sticker sheet and have some single stickers available as well. Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. December 2023
Another quilt block to add to the wall hanging at the end of the year! This one features New Leaf Green and was constructed the same way. Watercolor, ink, colored pencil, and cotton embroidery floss using 300lb coldpress watercolor paper. December 2023	A glass of hot apple cider featuring the Color in Focus: Aussie Red Gold. Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. January 2024	An orange gummy bear! Specifically an orange Albanese gummy bear, which is my favorite brand. I don't like the orange ones very much though so this painting and a bag of all the orange gummies I picked out were sent to one of my friends! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. January 2024
An embroidered brooch with a light smattering of the color of the month. This was a free hand embroidery that was framed and made into a brooch. Cotton embroidery floss on cotton quilt fabric with wood backing and frame. January 2024	The Aussie Red Gold quilt block to be added to the big wall hanging. I've been having a lot of fun making the patterns for these. Watercolor, colored pencil, and cotton embroidery floss using 300lb coldpress watercolor paper. January 2024	One of my "body badges" inspired by Girl Scout Patches for people dealing with various body and health issues. This one uses February's Color in Focus: Robins Egg Blue. Digital, February 2024
Instead of a full art piece for these I decided to make some assets for a mental health journal that I'd like to make! That is still in the works but our handsome whale friend here has been made into a sticker already! Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. February 2024	Some more assets for the mental health journal I'd like to make! Keep your eyes peeled for that in the future! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. February 2024	Another month another quilt block! This time in Robin's Egg Blue. The breakfast food fabric pattern I did here was a big hit so I may have to redo that as a larger piece at some point! Watercolor, ink, and cotton embroidery floss using 300lb coldpress watercolor paper. February 2024
A roast chicken using the Color in Focus for March: Burnt Sienna. I'm adding some text to this one digitally to make a sticker that says "don't butcher yourself for someone else's table." So look forward to seeing that soon! Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. March 2024	Quilt block in burnt sienna! I'm still enjoying coming up with fun little patterns for these "fabrics" and have actually started scanning just the patterns to use other places! Watercolor, colored pencil, and cotton embroidery floss using 300lb coldpress watercolor paper. March 2024	Some studies of morel mushrooms to help me with another project. I'm working on a coloring book sheet project with a bunch of other artists and wanted to get more used to the shapes morels have in them so decided to do some watercolor studies. They sure are some funky little guys! Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. March 2024
I saw the Color in Focus for this month, Green Apatite, and thought it would be good for a pickle. And I was right! This guy will also end up as a sticker. Watercolor on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. April 2024	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	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
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	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	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
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	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	This piece is a nod to a conversation I had with an internet friend where we were discussing what items in the world matched our vibes. This was one of hers. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, June 2024
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	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	There are so many good options for pink! It was hard to narrow down the options for this one, but I was lucky to have the help of some friends who are true pink appreciators. Watercolor, ink, and cotton embroidery floss on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper, June 2024
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 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	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
Some classic oranges for this one with creamsicles and orange slices, plus some traffic cones. Cadmium orange is such a great, bright color that it lends itself very easily to a lot of things. Watercolor, ink, and cotton embroidery floss on 300lb coldpress watercolor paper, July 2024	A collection of ice creams done for a sticker set! Yellow ochre is such a great color for wood and baked foods! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024	A collection of ice creams done for a sticker set! Yellow ochre is such a great color for wood and baked foods! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024
A collection of ice creams done for a sticker set! Yellow ochre is such a great color for wood and baked foods! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024	This is a redesign of an old sticker design I made digitally in 2012 featuring an Australopithecus africanus skull aka not of the Homo genus. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024	This is a new design to be paired with the No Homo redesign! This time our skull is of the Homo genus! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024
The two new sticker designs together! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024	This is a saying I came up with in my journal and a friend who saw it really wanted it as a sticker! Since it fit perfectly with this month's color I decided to get that design sorted to be October's perk for my Patreon Sticker Tier members! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024	I had an idea to make art based around me and my partners combining some favorite foods and animals. This one is me! I love goats and oatmeal scotchies are my favorite kind of cookies. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024
This is the second in the sweetheart trio: bunana bread! My girlfriend talks about herself as a rabbit all the time and banana bread is one of her favorites! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024	The completion of the trio! I ended up assigning my boyfriend as a capybara pretty early on in our relationship and he absolutely loves coffee, Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024	The whole trio together! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024
Another color another quilt block! This one included some fun Paleolithic inspiration including using friends' and followers' hands to recreate the Cueva de las Manos cave art. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, August 2024	The start of a collection of bugs to be made into a collectable sticker set! This is a peacock jumping spider and he's pleading and hoping you like his dance enough to give him a date. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, September 2024	Another bug for the collectable stickers! This one is a Peacock Fly who is also pleading for your attention. Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, September 2024
A Canada Darner Dragonfly making sure you know the name is accurate by darning a sock! Another addition to the collectable bug stickers Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, September 2024	The bugs in the collectable sticker set need a home after all, why not make them a nice little studio bug apartment! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, September 2024	The final quilt block before I get to sew them all together as a large wall hanging! That's a whole year of Color in Focus and a whole year of quilt blocks! Watercolor and ink on 140lb coldpress watercolor paper, September 2024
The completed quilt! A whole year's worth of colors combined to make a wall hanging! This was a beast to put together but I'm so pleased with how it turned out! Watercolor, ink, and cotton embroidery floss using 300lb coldpress watercolor paper, October 2023-October 2024	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	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
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