wedding sketches

I like sketching so to announce our engagement, we sent out announcement postcards.

To highlight things that are us... Josh is from Georgia (but doesn't like peaches), the compass points north to St. Louis- where he moved to be with me :).  The chicken symbolizes the beginning of our relationship, we both talked about wanting to own chickens someday, so Josh told me he was mailing me chickens, I was terrified that I'd come home in November or December to chicken eggs on my front porch. Luckily, I just came home to a stuffed chicken.
Music City Nashville (complete with the Batman Building) is in the upper right corner, where we met. Josh likes airplanes, hence the airplane.
We both like biking, a lot. and sunsets and hiking.

Then came the save the dates. We decided not to send out official cards in the mail to anyone because its a smaller wedding and as much as we love mail, this was an easier idea. Our wedding colors are Sunset and Josh still likes airplanes! :)

Christmas Postcard 2013- Tower Grove feature

I created my Christmas postcard this year based on a wonderful park in St. Louis- Tower Grove Park. My parents had some wedding pictures taken here, my college roommate and my brother got married here... its a pretty cool park. The pavilions in it have rich history and one of my favorites is the Turkish Pavilion- featured below.

 

Plumbing Postcard Sketch

a plumbing postcard sketch for Mike

Comfort Food Book Club Sketch

Megan picked Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs for our July book. Here's the sketch for her!

Valentine's Day Postcard

Megan hired me to create Valentine's Day postcards for her. She is a nurse on a cardiac step down floor so she deals with hearts daily. She also has a love for biking and biked in her first race this past October in the Pedal the Cause. The elements of the card were all inspired by her and for her. Enjoy and share the love!

its all in the details...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said: "God is in the details"

50 States 50 Sketch Postcard Project.

Last one and I'm done with this little project! Onto the next one....


Connecticut 

Recipient: M. Iezzi

50 States 50 Sketches Postcard Project

North Dakota

50 States 50 Sketches Postcard Project

Talking with friends and half strangers about my project has taught me about the states, found people to
send mail to and helped me become a better sketcher. Its been fun making up and looking up new fonts to try out and thinking of what to sketch. I've learned I should make a possible list of things I want to sketch before I start. For New Hampshire, I now look at it and think it could be so much cooler if I would have planned my sketches better but that's okay, onto the next one! 2 left!

South Dakota:

New Hampshire

Recipient: NH- Mosers

50 States. 50 Sketches. Postcard Projecet.

North Carolina:

Utah:

Recipients: Utah- J. Smith, North Carolina-  S Powell

50 states 50 sketches Postcard Project

Getting near done 3 or 4 left... I've learned that I shouldn't necessarily go freehand at it. I should plan more- make a list of things I want to draw before I just draw it. My 11 year old cousin did a school report on Vermont and that inspired most of the postcard below. 

West Virginia was another state I knew little about so the words made up most of the card. We sang along to dueling pianos on NYE and John Denver's Country Roads was a fun one- so he made it onto the postcard. 

Oregon

 

 Vermont

 West Virginia

Recipients: Oregon- L. Flores, Vermont- J. Petti, West Virginia- K. Phillips Burnett

50 States, 50 Sketches Postcard Project

I've been working on this project since May and my goal was to finish by Christmas. (Project- to send 50 state sketches- one to someone in each state.) I almost got there! I got 8 done on Christmas. It was pretty fun working on it with my family around because they gave me good, fun ideas for the sketches and I learned things I didn't know about each state. My Grandpa grew up in PA and my Grandparents lived in VA also so I heard stories from those areas. I still need a few more people to send them to in states like Wyoming, Maine, CT and hopefully I'll find someone who knows someone before I resort to sending them to the Governor. Enjoy!

Alabama

 Delaware

 Montana

 Nebraska

 New Jersey

 Pennsylvania

 Rhode Island

 Virginia

Recipients: AL- no one yet. V. Hollis, RI- R&J Highley, VA- S. Caldwell,  DE- M. Bryce, PA- P&E Cirino, NJ- E. Ozga , MT- J. Freytag,  NE- N. Koetter

Christmas postcards- St. Louis World's Fair Flight Cage

My St. Louis Christmas postcards this year were of the 1904 World's Fair Flight Cage.  In trying to figure out what St. Louis treasure/concept I wanted to embrace for my card this year, I knew wanted to do something exotic. I thought of the flight cage. Not many people know or consciously know the Flight Cage is from the 1904 World's Fair. When chatting with my parents about it, my mom does remember people put up a fight against extra webbing being added in the 1980s. If you google around the internet, you'll find some treasured photographs from the past. Flamingos are a favorite animal of mine so I was excited to include them on this drawing- thinking about warmer weather! And with writing this post, I already know what my St. Louis postcard Christmas card will be next year!

Merry Christmas!
& Cheers to 2013

Merry Cardmas!

This is some of my participation in Merry CARDmas! I was given 5 random names from the Merry Cardmas pool and got to send them  homemade Christmas cards! I made Christmas postcards out of paper scraps and old maps.

50 States. 50 Sketches Postcard Project.

Recipients: M & K Gerber

50 States. 50 Sketches Postcard Project.

Still trucking along sending postcards to people I know! Sketching at coffee shops while friends, who went to school in Indiana, study and read. My sister gave me insight to Indiana also with the song Fly Over States by Jason Aldean. Enjoy!

Indiana

Massachusetts

Recipients: Indiana- Luepkes, Mass: S. Eisele

50 States. 50 Sketches Postcard Project.

Alaska

 Iowa

Recipients: Iowa: C. Robinson, Alaska: N. Randle

50 States. 50 Sketches Postcard Project.

Arizona

Recipients: K&E Turner

50 States 50 Sketches Postcard Project

Getting closer to halfway, getting better at sketching and doodling, getting better at knowing my states. But I am also getting to the point where I am running out of people to send them to. So I turned to my Facebook friends again and got a great response. Wyoming and Maine are still up for grabs though.

 Wyoming

Maine

Missouri

Lucky Recipients:  Missouri: B. McDonald  Wyoming: up for grabs M. Zill  Maine: up for grabs

50 States. 50 Sketches Postcard Project.

Michigan

Recipient: King Fam


and as I am ... hopefully... halfway through the postcard sketches, I received one back! It came from my New York recipient G. Stearns. It was fun to pull this from my mailbox!

50 States. 50 Sketches. Postcard Project.

My designs are getting better- which is why I started this project in the first place, to become a better sketcher, so I can write a children's book someday. I've been to both of these states and felt like I knew enough to fill the postcards. I think they embrace the states!

Nevada

 Washington

Recipients: Nevada: A. Kruenegel, Washington: Youm Family