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Last month I celebrated a very special birthday and I spent the day enjoying it to its fullest as a food-lover and an artist by restaurant-hopping and drawing my meals.You can well imagine the stomach ache I ended up with after all that food, but it was well worth every bite of grits, biscuits, sausage, eggs, raspberry iced tea, soup sampler, open-faced ham and apple sandwich and dessert

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I am newly returned from a fabulous promotional trip to NYC alongside fellow illustrator, Joanna Estep. Despite the unexpected highs in the mid-90s and multiple blisters on our feet, we prevailed and walked our way across half of Manhattan to distribute portfolios.In addition to promoting and walking, we visited Jo's friend and Vertigo's Madame Xanadu artist, the delightful Amy Reeder, to talk

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One of my favorite tv shows is returning to air, and I'm so excited for the new season of Futurama that I took a moment to redesign the characters and the ship. The redesign is heavily influenced by the Nautilus of Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, because great design never goes bad.As for why they are all posed vaguely like pin-up girls? The more apt question is why not.

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Sketching adventures through the nation's 5th oldest zoo:The Amur Leopard has a passionate dislike of machines that make loud noises.The tiger on the right took a break from his nap while I was sketching to stand up on his hind legs and greet me face-to-face from three inches and a pane of glass away. I never expected I would ever stare down a tiger in my life.The Great Cats of Asia exhibit is

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Bonus: Not only does working for the AAU's Fashion Department provide exposure to a vast array of inspirational fashion illustrators, it also builds an appreciation for the care and attention that is given to fabrics in mass, form, drape and pattern. The following black and white striped outfits by Schiele, ERIC and an unknown artist (please comment if you know!) are captivating in design and

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A few things I've been meaning to archive here. More to follow.Bonus: Schiele's Portrait of Hans Massmann, 1909, that I keep admiring wistfully. Not only does he incorporate his lovely organic patterning and lines through the piece, he successfully combines them with strong shapes and geometric compositional elements, generating a powerfully designed portrait. The earthy colors reinforce this

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Nothing can replace value studies as the most important part of the creative process for me. Though having a respectable palette to use and abuse does come close.

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Out today through Delmar Cengage Learning is Michael Fleishman's new book, The Drawing Inspiration: The Visual Artist at Work."Drawing Inspiration is a one of a kind text for beginning illustrators. This book examines the relationship between academic and professional illustration through the ideas and first hand experiences of professional illustrators working in the field today. With hundreds

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Through MySoti, t-shirts are now available featuring the vector illustration of my favorite SEA MONSTER:And for the tea snobs like me out there, declare your love with your choice of Green Tea:Herbal Tea:or Black Tea:

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Got slammed by a flu or cold this weekend, which I'm still woozy and recovering from. I did see that Coop of A Patchwork of Flesh received my submission to his online blog gallery of Frankenstein's monster.I assume from my portfolio work, people don't see me drawing dark pieces but I do like to make them. I just like to make the dark aspects subtle. With Frankenstein's monster, the surgical

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While in NYC to attend the Society of Illustrators Student show, I picked up a few items of note. Postcards from the Met are great to use when determining colors in a composition. They had a gorgeous exhibit on 19th and 20th century painters: Vuillard, Mucha, Sargent, Lautrec, Van Gogh, ect. I was very pleasantly surprised and awed by the touches of perfect color in the Degas pastels.I finally

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New tinasweep.com re-design!My simple website re-design and update has just been finalized and launched, due to the not-so-simple coding efforts of my sister, Cas, who is a website developer and designer for Absolute Marketing Group.CSS and I are still on rocky terms, but my sister coded everything to meet the key goals for the design as follows:1) Employing CSS instead of iframes to make the

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Looking back on the 50s and 60s, ads told a story to sell the product through text and illustration. Plenty of the ad stories and illustrations were irreverent to what the product actually did, rather more like fairy tales than ads and at times not even showing the product itself. In this image I wanted to make a tongue-in-cheek ad for an AARP article, illustrated as a dreamy fairy tale inspired

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So much so that I had my squid printed on a t-shirt. The squids in my sketchbook were the results of stress relief from coding my website in CSS. Style Sheets and I are not on friendly terms, unfortunately.And then there's the little pieces I meant to post ages ago. E&M is a situational piece about relationships and showing interaction without explaining the interaction. Also, fun with patterns.I

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I'm a bit in shock right now. Just now I found out that one of my pieces made it into the 2009 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship competition, so this will be my third and final year in the student show.It also means come May 6th through June 6th there will be a large empty space on my wall where this painting used to be:In all, 34 Ringling students' pieces were selected by the jury. I'm

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To my shame the moving in stage of moving in was delayed for a while.While I enjoy my two office rooms, my whistling radiators, my teeny tiny kitchen, the local overly cautious SUV-drivers, the stark winter colors, my eerily quiet neighbors, the relative difference of 65 versus 67 degrees and a thousand other aspects to my new town and apartment, it has not been a smooth transition. My homes have

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The weather's turned, the leaves are all manner of gorgeous colors and I've been able to dress in layers, all simple events that are miraculous after four years in Sarasota.I've moved into an apartment in a building that might have been a hotel, where I can keep my gesso brush in the fridge. This gives me no end of happiness on both accounts.While the website design and update is developing, I

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When you combine baking and painting pictures, the best part is is eating the results. The baked goods, not the painting.

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Recently, I ordered and received a signed copy of Cory Godbey's 28-page paperback illustrated book Ticket."Ticket is a story in pictures and a collection of all things Cory loves to draw. From windmills flying above grassy hills to massive birds landing in Grecian vineyards, Ticket follows the story of a girl, her hat, and the curious events which transpire."Reminiscent of Shaun Tan's The Arrival

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To make a post after a long absence is always a challenge. But it becomes easier after that, or so I hope.I have some work from Printmaking and Illustration left over that I want to get caught up on before anything else."The Beautiful Things" is a series of 20+ chine colle prints, using the same etching on a multitude of different postcard backgrounds. The postcards actually came from a sheet of

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I was waiting to post until I had better news than 'I'm coping with living out of boxes', but no. At least there are plans in motion that should resolve the big box debacle of 2008 relatively soon.Good thing I do have brief highlights of the long road trip I took in May with my mom that I can post.It started with a last visit to Publix for a Publix veggie sub and a bottle of flavored tea. I will

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Tuesday, April 29th was the last day of classes for the year at Ringling, and on Friday the qualifying seniors walked across the stage to receive their diploma cases. (The real diplomas are in the mail.) As my name was called, I was elated and deeply gratified to hear my friends, faculty, administration, and family cheering and clapping for me. In the final hour, it still felt more like everyone

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The last month and more as a senior at Ringling College was a non-stop run of activities here, there and everywhere. Senior thesis and the senior illustration show opening reception preceded the final two days of classes and events, packing and family time, graduation, and finally, moving and sight-seeing. These occurrences sound so benign and casual when listed out, but they were jammed on top

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The opening reception for the show was fantastic! Thank you everyone, new friends and old friends, who made it to Foley's Fine Art for a little food, wine, chatting, and art last night. It was a grand, successful night, and because of your encouragement, I am setting my goals for the future now even higher than I had imagined a month ago. I greatly appreciate the comments and advice everyone gave

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This coming Friday, April 4th, Jane Radstrom and I will be showing at a local gallery opposite a collection of Pablo Picasso's prints and drawings. The opening reception will be from 6 to 9PM at Foley's Fine Art, on Main Street. If you are in the area, please consider stopping by to support us.A huge amount of thanks goes out to all of the people who made this possible for us. Thank you, Thiel

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The brochure and postcard invitations for the Ringling College of Art and Design 2008 Senior Illustration Show are currently being printed. Poster image and title text by Erin McGuire, building diagrams by Andrew Wright, and design by Tina Sweep.

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I'm preparing for a little re-design. I love shoes, especially brown Mudd shoes with chunky heels or Skechers flats with embroidered red and blue and yellow and purple goldfish. But I might love antique AM radios even more.

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My mom had originally given me this recipe, and it's a great one to share. For my Friday critique and bake group, you guys make all the difference.

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It's been posted before, but now Basic Needs is one of 27 Ringling College entries accepted into this year's Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition! I am extremely honored to once again be a part of the show, and I owe many thanks to the Society staff and jury members who made the competition possible. Thanks for all of your hard work especially, Scott!The show will open on

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A little commission I'm working on, based on my Tea illustration.

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My grandfather makes small metal vehicles and other objects, cars, tractors, trains, bulldozers, excavators, et cetera. Last summer, my grandfather and grandmother asked me if I wanted any of the creations, and I came away with the Model T and the little windmill that became the subject of my first woodblock print.This deep copper plate etching was in the acid for about five hours. I used China

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Drypoint copperplate etching.Hint: it's battery-powered by 4 C-size batteries.

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In the class Artist's Books, we made many different kinds of books to explore the different ways of binding books and presenting the content inside. We had five main projects to complete along with about 13 dummy books that the instructor demonstrated during class. The course was a lot of work, but highly informative and inspirational. Now that I have the practical knowledge of making handmade

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In the bookmaking class, part of the actual book that needs to be made is the content. For one of my books, I read various issues of The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book review (and one short story from last year), and picked articles from them to draw a variety of charcoal illustrations."Sowing for the Apocalypse" by John Seabrook (The New Yorker, August 27,

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For Gary Kelley's blue conceptual illustration assignment, I did a portrait of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Alice blue is a light or steel blueish-cyanish color that was favored by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. In my view, her wit and her mouth was the most dangerous part of her, especially for her time. I painted her portrait with her mouth covered, like a concealed

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Thanksgiving, along with the rest of the major holidays, is a family event. Grandma cooks and bakes and hosts the family party, and spreads her love among us. She has always been the center of the holidays.This October, my Grandma had an accident at her home and passed away. It's hard to experience the effects of the loss away from my family, especially during the holidays when she meant so much

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I've just received my copy of Shaun Tan's new book, "The Arrival," and the first read-through had me gaping in awe. After the usual 32 page children's books he's done, "The Arrival" is 128 pages of gorgeous completely text-free illustrations. It reads as a sequential graphic novel, with the illustrations structured on each page through multiple panels with as much as 30 panels on a page up to

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The bad is that I haven't posted in a while. The good is that means I have a lot to post."Basic Needs" is based on the New Yorker article "The Last Drop" by Michael Specter, featured in the October 23, 2006 issue. The article focuses on the global supply of freshwater, particularly in India. The actual condition of the assignment was to creatively illustrate four terms, of which I picked "it's a

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Last spring, Dunnick gave the class an assignment to do five sequential images. I chose an origin myth of the tea plant, because any excuse to paint tea is what I do. In the myth, the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma attempted to meditate in front of a wall for nine years. He made it seven, before he fell asleep. In anger he cut off his eyelids and where he dropped them to the ground, the first tea bush

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The scarf has been adjusted and the glove has been painted over to correct the values and draw the viewer's eye to the face. I've posted the full image to my site, so I won't repeat it here. Instead, I have enlarged scans of some of the areas from the painting that I like, for different reasons.The simplicity of the buttons and the use of the underlying texture are all things that just fall into

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The summer began with the continuation of my internship for the Ringling Design Center, working everyday up until the Illustration Academy 2007. It's a life-changing gift to go to the Academy. I was particularly grateful to be in attendance for a second year, because it was more relaxed and comfortable, as opposed to the first year when I was painfully shy and intimidated.The best assignment of

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The most useful advice that I have received has been to work hard and keep moving forward. With the help of my instructors and fellow students at Ringling College and the Illustration Academy, I have worked diligently to advance to the next level and apply for every opportunity and award that I've qualified for. During the beginning of April, my department head informed me of the Zankel Scholar

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This is a preview for a portrait in progress of Sarah Watts. The scarf might be an iffy area for value, but the part that I definitely need to change is the glove that she's wearing (yes, it's a glove) because it is far too distracting. I'm thinking argyle.

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2007 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition

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