fly with me + etsy craft show
We will be vending at the Etsy Indie Emporium this weekend at Pier 35 in San Francisco. If you’re around come by to shop over 150 local artists for your holiday season.
I hope you have a happy holiday week!
night duel + urban epicurean festival
Very early in my career my hard drive crashed and I lost the full resolution files of my illustrations. Duel was one of them – and as my work has been featured on different websites I’ve been asked for it as a print. Sadly I cannot recreate it – but I did revisit it! It was so much fun – it gave me a chance to truly see where I’ve grown. I understand anatomy and character weight better, but also light and shadow. I still have a long way to go but I know from years of experience my best route to improvement is to keep drawing. ^_^
Meanwhile, this weekend I will be at the Urban Epicurean Fest in San Francisco selling prints, cards and calendars with the wonderful Lyla Warren ofLittle Brigade. She’s coming from Portland to share her lovelySeedlingswith you all! 
If you’re around please come by and say hello!
birthday one day sale!
it’s my birthday and i want to extend the happiness to you! you can enjoy 20% off my shop until 10am November 3rd. i hope you have a happy day!
2016 calendar pre-order
we are super excited to release the pre-order for our limited edition 2016 calendar!
it’s been a busy october! we’ve gone to new york, 2 weddings (all with our 3-month old!) and launched a week long pop-up at the mall! my work was also featured on the huffington post! it’s been exciting and overwhelming (in the best way)… we are happy to be stationary through the holidays.
i hope you’re having a lovely october!
new york bound!
we are so excited (and overwhelmed with preparations) that we’re headed to new york for new york comicon! it will be our first east coast show! if you’re planning on attending and would like us to bring specific prints, please let me know. we will be in artist alley, table E6 – can’t wait to see you there!!
back home we have exciting news as well! we’ve opened a one week pop-up shop at stonestown mall in san francisco! come by our kiosk across from gymboree this week to shop our selection – we hope to return for the holidays as well!
sharing + clearance + news
anyone else fight over who pushes the stroller? ^_^ we’ve updated our clearance section with overstock of large prints – get em soon, they’re going fast! also i was invited to contribute to bored panda again, and i wrote about my rejection by publishers.
terrible yellow eyes
I have two watercolors in the Sendak and Silverstein tribute show at Leanna Lin’s Wonderland in Los Angeles! I’m super happy to be in the company of many talented artists – the show opens tomorrow at 6pm, check it out if you’re in the area!
Have a great weekend ^_^
scribble me happy
I will be participating in the First Friday art walk in San Mateo from 6-9pm with one of the cutest shops, Scribble Me Happy. Come by to chat and watch me watercolor!
Also, as many requested, the above watercolor is now available as a print!
i’m an artist and i deserve credit
i create artwork to make people happy. i share that work on social media and i always include my website or name (or both) on my work.
i spent the past five years building my career. i spent my entire life acquiring an understanding of light, color, composition and rhythm – components that i believe make my work unique. each illustration i create has drawn upon these hours, days and weeks of practice. my illustrations are inspired by my life. each piece is a peek into a moment, a memory or my imagination. my artwork is an extension of who i am.
recently my work went “viral” and dozens of websites and facebook pages shared my everyday love with captions added (side note, i do not allow any modification of my artwork under my copyright, including adding captions). in the beginning, my name and website were shared along with the pieces. slowly but surely, as my work was re-shared, my name and website were dropped. in fact many of the posts intentionally cropped my work to remove my name from the bottom! these sites use my work to promote their own brands without citing the source. i LOVE that thousands of people enjoy my work and feel a connection to it – but i do not appreciate my artwork being shared without my name or a link to my site.
here’s just one screen shot (there are countless others):
i created the art and i deserve credit.
everyday love art is our family business. we built it through years of support and sacrifice. i love creating art and we love sending our cards and prints around the world. i need to make and sell art to continue creating. i do not need to spend time writing posts like these, chasing copyright violations and worrying about it. i encourage you to report any posts that shares artwork without credit, whether its mine or another artist’s. that’s the proper, respectful thing to do.
i hope that assigning proper credit will become the new web standard. then i can focus solely on creating artwork to make people happy – that’s all i’ve ever wanted to do.