lucky so and so

So I remember reading about the Rainbow Parade that took place in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn this past April but it wasn't until recently that I discovered the woman behind it, Jessi Arrington from Lucky So and So.

Yup, that's her in the front, leading everyone in chromatic order on her birthday! This picture brings a huge smile to my face and it makes me even more excited to move to Brooklyn. Jessi is a thrifty gal and blogs about her scavenging adventures on her outfits page—They're so much fun!

serena & kara

Almost back on schedule! It's been a balancing act these past couple weeks but things are just starting to level out again. I hope you had a chance to check out pictures from the upper room gallery exhibition this past weekend, I'll be posting another batch later this week.

I want to share with you an illustrator that I bookmarked a while back by the name of Serena Mitnik-Miller.  When I look through her work I feel like digging through my art supplies in search of my watercolor kit! Its amazing how artistic styles can give mediums a new sense of significance and interpretation. I feel especially inspired to create after this weekend so hopefully I'll have a small body of new work to share come this fall. Check out some of Serena's work below and take note of the way the watercolor imprints the paper... I'm thinking there might be some stamping involved?

Now for one of her bold prints, I love aspect of color theory that's so present in her work. 

Here's one more print that I saved on design*sponge from Art + Culture Editions entitled Counterpassant by Kara Maria. It plays with color, layering and opacity which pulls on the heart strings of the printmaker inside me. I think I see some screen printing and water color experiments in my future...