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  • So here's the current (fairly pathetic, first world) situation: during each and every tiny break throughout my day - between thoughts, between tasks - I check my Instagram (roughly 2,612 times). I do not use this time to look up my favorite artists and friends, I do not use this time to respond to comments, I use it compulsively to stave off...boredom? not being stimulated? loneliness? It's like a zombie state of not paying attention to either world. So anyway, I'm taking June off. To break the habit. To be in my actual life that much more. I feel pretty lame saying all of this, but I'm scared! Scared of stepping out of the loop, away from my fellow creatives, scared of how to fill those little spaces through which I usually distract myself. I'll be using my time to finish my new website, publish my next Skillshare class (!), and be a little more alone with myself, in a really good way. Have a great month ❤️💐 . . #illustrator #illustration #floral #flowers #wreath #retro #yellow #gold
  • Still in tile land today and made one that doesn’t actually fully work (after being repeated around a single corner, it should then be able to tile nicely, mine doesn’t do the second part), but these throwback colors buzzing next to each other made me not care so much. . . #tile #vintage #retro #illustration #blockprint #illustrator #illustragram #floral #flowers
  • I’ve found all the things I was chasing at the start of the year (Efficiency! Goals! Intention! Growth! Consistency!) are now, in these middle months, no longer interesting to me. I wanted things to be neat and orderly and stable, and now I just want them to be. I’m less worried about micromanaging the how in favor of getting straight to the what. “The what” being the work of course; creating, reading, learning, coding a page on my website, trying a new recipe for dinner, being a kind human to our rude neighbors. Not worrying about what I’m reading so long as I am reading, not worrying about what I’m making so long as I am making. It feels like rolling with it. Right now, it feels better. . . #tile #floral #flowers #surfacedesign #pattern #printandpattern #vintage #illustration #illustrator #draweveryday
  • If you swipe right you’ll find a time lapse that reveals the indirect path I took to arrive at this here vintage wannabe. I start very general with composition and shape, refining and getting more specific as I move forward. Once I filled everything in I felt an uncomfortable imbalance between the flower heads and windy leaves, so I threw out the flower shapes altogether in favor of blooms with more interesting curves and petals (something that lets the background through a bit). I see this wrapped around my favorite cookbook before gifting it to a friend, or, as per usual, lining a dainty powder room. . . #illustragram #illustrator #floral #wallpaper #giftwrap #vintage #retro #flowers #surfacedesign #printandpattern #patternobserver
  • 💌I received word that the strike-offs for my first fabric collection (!!!) should be arriving soon, so I’m suppressing my happy nerves with some alstroemeria, solidago, and a lush zinnia. And lots of dancing to the Pitch Perfect soundtracks. . . #illustration #botanical #floral #flowers #draweveryday #vintage

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