I am taking the Nurture your creativity + be bulletproof class from one of my favorite artists, Kal Barteski. It's been awesome! This piece came about from one of the assignments, to define what creativity meant to us. Just added to the shop:
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I have a love/hate (mostly hate/hate) relationship with the word "epic." It used to be good. Great, even. EPIC, even. Until a bazillion wedding photographers started describing their latest wedding as epic. Each more EPIC than the last. Then it caught on in mainstream conversation. Sort of like "awesome" in the 80's. Only way more annoying. So recently, my friend asked me to design a birthday invite for her 6-year-old daughter's birthday. Inspired by the rainbow cake, she wanted a rainbow-themed inivite. An EPIC RAINBOW BIRTHDAY! The invite came out super cool, in all the rainbow candy-colored goodness of any 6-year-old's dreams.
Today though, I wanted a grown-up version. No rainbow-brite colors, no perfect placement. A tribute to bad press jobs and low-budget color everywhere. I ended up with this (below) and am really loving it! It's available in my Society6 shop and just makes me super happy. EPIC-LY happy.
This just makes me smile. If I had a trailer, I wouldn't have one of those posters where you fill in the states you've visited. I'd have a little mobile design trailer and fill in the letters I'd drawn. Which makes me laugh too, because I'm pretty sure over the course of my 43 years I have actually drawn all the letters, not just some of them as illustrated here. This is up in both my Society6 shop and at SmugMug. The tee version is below:
This is an entry I can really sink my teeth into. Love shooting teens, having two (almost 3!) of my own. The mecurial moods and going-100-directions-at-once can make it a challenge, but when you get that one image that shows a fleeting moment of what it feels like to be a teenager, it seems to stop time. Shows you a glimpse into that world while simultaneously transporting you back to your own time spent in those short, magical years. I know many parents complain that their teens never want to be in photos (mine included) and it can be frustrating, but keep mentioning it every once in awhile. I recently was thrilled when my oldest asked if I would take a few shots.
Below is my entry for I [heart] faces: Celebrating Teen. Just a capture of that interaction that I really loved.
