HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOG!

I started this blog a year ago! I can't believe it. I'm not necessarily sure how often people look at it or what kind of reach it has (besides my mom). But, it has given me a way to archive my art and incentive to create! In celebration, I'm going to post my favorite posts from each month. Enjoy! And thank you for giving me your time!

From July where I started crazily painting these watercolor bodies

Flagstaff flowers in August

September and my first oil painting

Warm New York October and a Lower East Side excursion

November brought us this puppy

I started experimenting with manual photography in the winter months

And then, in March, I started painting them

In April there was Argentina, and these mouths

In May, I left the lovely New York City

And then Arizona inspired these funky oils

Insta

My Insta has been on point lately (if I do say so myself). Here are some of the best. If you want to see more, you can click on that huge photo on the right :D

A tattoo design for my sister and the start of a foot painting

The x-ray of my broken foot

Beautiful wall in Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires

The Andes through a rotating restaurant

Santiago at sunset

My photos in a show

Recap of April

April is always lovely because it is the beginning of true Spring in New York, the beginning of the end of school. This April has been exceptionally lovely because graduation is coming up (YES!), I was in South America, and then the not so lovely foot break. BUT here are the best moments from this month!

From our trip to Chile-- we were at this goofy restaurant that had a mini-garden in the back!

The beautiful Ricoletta Cemetery. I'm pretty sure this is the alley where Evita is buried. 

The sassy greeting cards I've been making. Though, this one is far less sassy.

My "Wrong" assignment went extremely well. Seventeen creepy paintings and I want to keep going!

I had another show! It was quite nice and very simple.

The lovely view from a rotating restaurant in Patagonia. Red and white look so beautiful with those mountains. Or maybe anything looks beautiful with them.

Sassy Greetings

I saw this lovely Julia Child quote about cake and just felt compelled to paint cake. I already had my oils out and I was taking a break from painting. From this random moment, I just went nuts! 

I painted fifteen little greeting card type things. All of which are sassy, all of which are dainty and nice. I want to start selling them on etsy-- I think I could make some money!

Another Show!

I'm going to be in another show! This one is for my photography class (so maybe not as big of a deal?). I made the invitation which means my art will be seen more! 

If you're going to be in New York come and check it out!

Recap of March

Here are some of my favorite moments from March. April is calling our names and it sounds beautiful. Warmth, spring, graduation so much closer. I'm ready.

A post promoting my friend's blog, Roving Brooklyn. It's been moved to a new medium which is rather lovely.

Probably my favorite Instagram post ever. But I'm still toying with the idea of doing a regular post dedicated to Instagrams.

I've been painting on my funky prints!

Even though it's technically spring it doesn't feel like it. Here was my ode to summer. 

A fun photo of my newest painting (real post soon to come).

I was in my first New York show this past weekend. I'm so happy about how this looks in a gallery! (Doesn't it look cool with the painting above??)

Some Instagrams

Instagram is my favorite form of social media. I just love it. My sister (pretentious filmmaker) doesn't like it because it "makes taking images so base" (or something like that). But she's wrong and I love it. Here are some of my recent faves. 

I just cut off all of my hair! 

Contour drawings of the Sign Language alphabet

The lovely light that hit my patterns in the morning

A photo collage of my Winter Break photos

As I was driving to Phoenix to fly back to New York I snapped this amazing AZ sunset

"Sleep!" (a comic about the lack of it)

I made a wire earring hanger that sits nicely under my hat

Last night I ended up getting very lost in Brooklyn (but look at that moon!)

My try at embroidering photographs

Painted Photos

Considering how expensive RC paper is (for printing my photos) I feel the need to use or make the best of each of my prints. So, I've started experimenting with paint (who would have thunk eh?)!

A bunch of these are the self-portraits from my assignment-- forgive the repetition.