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An Artists Musings

Ink and watercolor illustration of a llama playing a nintendo switch. The llama looks frustrated by whatever level she is playing. Text reads “l got this … l got this … just one more hit!”

Sorry, I just need to say this…

black and white illustration of a man meditating, t-shirt reads Namaste

A Newsletter 😊

Making a Patreon!

digital drawing of a cartoon giraffe named Gigi sitting on the grass with a red tulip growing next to her.

Tips and Tricks Video

Gauche painting of yellow black eyed susan flower on green background

Black-Eyed Susan

Illustration of paper cranes in every color of the rainbow. They are all jumbled together more heavily on the left and getting dispersed as you move to the right and the upper right corner empty canvas.

Origami Paper Cranes

a subtle redesign of the procreate app icons. the design isn’t changed much it is still a rainbow swoop on a black or white background, however I created it using a stippling (tiny dots) technique.

Yet another contest…

image of half filled glass of water, text circling the glass reads “whether you’re an optimist or pessimist, always half”

Am I good enough??

Gauche painting of yellow black eyed susan flower on green background

Fast Art vs. Art that takes time

Digital color pencil drawing of a single nondescript red flower slightly to the right of frame; maybe tulip inspired

Musings of an Artist

a photo of me standing in front of my display wall for the show, i am wearing a pink sweater an my glasses and behind me you can see a wall with my framed photographs and illustrations.

Feelings on Art Shows

Photograph of a gazebo in the Rose garden @ Chicago botanical gardens. There is a park bench that has an illustrated ostrich sitting on it.

want to be an illustrator & welcome

cartoon illustration of tortoise crossing the finish line while a hare sleeps near by under a tree.

My thoughts on art contests

Affinity Designer for iPad

grey arrow with blue outline and white shadow across left

Node Settings

digital pencil sketch of a gear. the gear is white and the background is black.

Preferences in Affinity Designer for iPad

Layers Studio (Export Persona)

Illustration of the icon for exporting documents in affinity designer for iPad. It looks like a stack of papers with an up arrow in the middle of it

Exporting in Affinity Designer for iPad

Slices Studio

digital white pencil sketch on a black background of the letter a with 14pt written underneath. this is what the icon for the text studio looks like on affinity designer for ipad looks like.

Paragraph ~ Text Studio

digital white pencil sketch on a black background of the letter a with 14pt written underneath. this is what the icon for the text studio looks like on affinity designer for ipad looks like.

Character ~ Text Studio

digital white pencil sketch on a black background of the letter a with 14pt written underneath. this is what the icon for the text studio looks like on affinity designer for ipad looks like.

Text Studio

Constraints Studio

white pencil sketch on a black background of nine squares arranged 3 across and 3 down. this is what the assets studio symbol looks like when using affinity designer on an ipad.

Assets Studio

symbol studio icon, white spinning wheel split into 3rds and curved in motion.

Symbols Studio

White pencil drawn compass graphic on a black background

Navigator Studio

History Studio

Transform Studio

drawing of fx in white on a black background styled to match the icon for the effects panel on affinity designer for iPad

Styles Studio

drawing of fx in white on a black background styled to match the icon for the effects panel on affinity designer for iPad

Effects Studio

screen shot of layer options icon

Layers Studio ~ Affinity Designer iPad

Brushes Studio ~ Affinity Designer for iPad

Stroke Studio ~ Affinity Designer iPad

The Swatches Studio ~ Affinity Designer iPad

screenshot of Color Wheel on ipad

The Color Studio ~ Affinity Designer iPad

magenta heart made with the vector draw persona

The Toolbar, Context Toolbar, and an intro to the Studio Panels

colored pencil sketch of the affinity designer icon for the export persona; color is sea foamy / art deco / teal green

Export Persona

colored pencil sketch of the affinity designer icon for the pixel persona; color is sea foamy / art deco / teal green

Pixel Persona

colored pencil sketch of the affinity designer icon for the draw persona color is sea foamy / art deco / teal green

Draw Persona Tools

Personas, Tools, and Toolbars

magenta heart made with the vector draw persona

Affinity Designer: interface explained for iPad

cover of affinity designer workbook. a text book cover for a vector graphics application

Affinity Designer Workbook… for iPad pro?

blog & how-to’s

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