Sowing Seeds
A Friend from Quaker Meeting recently shared with me, The Soil Story. It’s a short, well-crafted, and engaging video produced by Kiss the Ground – a 501(c)3 increasing societal awareness about the extraordinary benefits of healthy soil. Watch The Soil…
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The Slump Series: No. 3 of 3
Saying Good-bye & Transformation Welcome to the third and final episode (for now) of The Slump Series. Saying good-bye is never easy, but if we can consider it a time of transformation, it makes it a little easier. Now there’s…
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The Slump Series, Episode No. 2 of 3
You Can Learn From the Slump Is it weird to have “conversations” with a drawing? Well, it may, depending on your background. Please let go of this classification … just for a little bit! For certain, the exercise of “talking”…
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The Slump Series, Episode No. 1 of 3
How to Embrace & Love The Slump There are days when you’d really like to be working – in the same room – with your best design-colleague-friend. Alas, as a freelancer, we work from our home offices; our colleague-friends do…
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New Nature Writers
We are pleased to share a new logo we designed for New Nature Writers this past December. New Nature Writers is an organization that establishes an ecosystem of places where people gather to write about the land and waters they…
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Vintage 1969 Card Art
We are very happy to share this new illustration created for my husband, Cris Collins. It was created in pencil first, then inked, scanned and colorized in Photoshop over a kraft paper background. Cris was my art director, choosing the…
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New Logos & Happy New Year
This past fall we completed a few new logos for some awesome folks in Loudoun and beyond: Sylvanside Farm in Purcellville, Summergreen Farm in Middleburg, Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains’ Sleeter Lake project in Round Hill, and Mad Wolf…
Read MoreBluemont Wedding Party
Above is a detail from an illustration created for an after-wedding party postcard. I referenced an entry from one of my old sketchbooks (below). Given that it was a lovely summer wedding, I lightened up the costume and made it…
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