Kelly & Jamie

I was recently hired through Harts N Crafts to do a portrait of two Baylor students. It was a bit of challenge, since the resolution was a bit low and I had to fuss with it a whole lot. I'm happy with how it turned out.

It has been a very busy end of the year so far, and I've been out of town twice a week lately. So I apologize for not being more diligent with my posting. My apologies especially go out to you KT for not finishing your picture. It has been mostly done for a while, but I just need to put the finishing touches.

Barbie

My Mother-In-Law at Christmas in November.

Santa

We spent the weekend in Abilene at the convention center for Christmas in November - a big pre-holidays craft-palooza. Alicia had a double booth for her store and was selling her awesome products. My father-in-law, David, was in tune with the holiday spirit after 3+ hours of bleaching and toning at the local cosmotology school. He's easily going to be the most convincing Santa w/ real hair! Everyone who saw it, loved it and after seeing it a couple days, it was difficult to imagine him different.

On Bad Design

"The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring."

- Paul Rand (Design, Form, and Chaos)

Alicia

Alicia & Lindsey

Hard at work in Harts N Crafts

New Mural Design in Progress

Wow, it's been a while since I last posted. My apologies to all the loyal peeps following along.

We just got back in town after a busy homecoming weekend at Baylor in Waco. Everybody was taken back by how amazing Alicia's store has become. You can't help but be happy with all the colors and friendly service. Over and over people would come in.. gasp... and say "oh my god, I love this store!!" Which of course was a big confidance boost for Alicia and I was super proud of all her hard work.

Last week I began to design a new mural for Common Grounds, the locally-owned campus coffee shop. Right now, nothing is set in stone, but I'm putting together a design to hopefully wow the owner Jill. This is one part of the three panels.