May the Fourth Be With You

Nerd alert!!! Normally I’m not prepared for the minor holidays, but I woke up on Sunday with an idea and some verve. Never having worked with chalk before as a medium proved to be a little challenging. Did you know that sidewalk chalk has a waxier consistency than chalkboard chalk? Not so great for blending so watch out. One of …

Hand Lettered Envelopes

When I was a kid my mom brought home a huge poster-sized pad of paper from work. I was so excited to get started, yet that paper sat under my bed for years collecting dust. Why? Because there was so much pressure to get it right that I didn’t want top “ruin” it by drawing something shitty. So I never drew …

Hand-Lettered Type

Oh how I love hand-lettered type! Haven’t quite gotten the hang of lettering myself but I don’t think that my first attempts were terrible. We were required to create a one-word tag for our typography class and then put it to work in a physical way. I fell in love with the word ‘Quixotic’ because I just loved drawing out …