And speaking of stamps, Wishfulls.com has just released three lines of greeting cards based on my artworks! I feel really honored that my work will be going to so many strangers. I just love stationery and especially greeting cards. When I was young, my mom always had a file full of greeting cards. I used to dump them all out, spread them on the floor and look at each one. It was the 80’s so there were many sarcastic, funny, hand-drawn, cartoony cards of women with pointy b o o b s and beehive hairdos. She collected them so that she’d have that perfect card for the perfect person. Wishfulls™ is a local start-up and I am one of the six women helping to build it and create products for them. Wishfulls products are designed to acknowledge the people you love by recognizing them for their unique and special qualities. Our signature Full words are used to convey these special qualities…to be soulFULL says so much more than soulful, doesn’t it? I created the art for the greeting card lines, and in some cases, I left the words off and our incredible graphics guru, Flip, added them. It was a great collaboration. For the Garden Road collection, I created paintings to illustrate our Full words by representing them as a neighborhood of kindness. There are more to come…but, umm….I’m a wee bit busy at the moment:
The Modern Quilts collection is based on small quilts that I created to illustrate each of our Full words. Forgive the cropping on the photos, some are not final images:



The Reflections collection is an artful line based on my abstract paintings and evoking each of the accompanying Full words. I chose meaningful quotes for the interiors: Interior: “Dwell in Possibility.” ~Emily Dickinson
Interior: “Follow your bliss.” ~ Joseph Campbell
Interior:

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ~Pablo Picasso read more