I’ve ROARED into 2025 – Here’s what’s happening: Kentucky Crafted Market Starpointe Studio Booth #307 at the Kentucky Horse Park Alltech Arena March 8: 10am – 5pm March 9: 11am – 4pm March 7: Wholesale Buyers only: 10am – 5pm Starpointe Studio Wood Engraving Workshop in Bagdad, KY March 21–23, 2025: Join me for a…
December 6 – 7 2024: Cafted Social presents Winter Market, 6-9pm preview night on Dec 6th and 10am – 4pm on Dec 7th at the Greyline Station, Lexington, KY. December 21, 2024: Last Call Art Market 11am – 5pm at West Sixth Brewery in Lexington, KY. December 7, 2024 – January 4, 2025: SAGA’s (Society…
An easy pamphlet stitched book to get your creative juices flowing — get creative with your materials and then fill your book with sketches, ideas, a story, a comic — anything! SUPPLY LIST – 8.5 x 11 inch copy paper (inside pages) – Cover material (cereal box, other recyclable paper board material, fabric, wrapping paper…
The summer of 2018, I was asked to create a special thank you gift for Capital Campaign contributors in support of Josephine Sculpture Park’s (JSP) recent expansion. The commission involved creating a custom original print of a future vision of JSP and also a custom designed “Thank you” card. While I thought of the card…
I had a truly inspiring experience with a group of 5 artists for Ayatana Artists’ Research Residency’s Swarm, an intensive study of insects. All the scientists, participating artists, and Ayatana Director, Alexis Williams, were engaging and enlightening. It was the perfect time to test the capabilities of my phone’s camera with clip-on macro lens (works…
I mark spring’s progress by the arrival of the elegant, but spunky barn swallows. I love that their diets include eating wasps and other insects around our home. And if you’ve ever witnessed the feast of mayflies by a body of water — you’re lucky enough to have seen the feeding frenzy coupled with the…
Spring Sprint was created after doing some light research on the origins of racing, spurred initially by my admiration of Thomas Bewick’s advertising cuts of the late 1700s and early 1800s. Bewick was a master of miniature vignettes in wood and metal engraving. I love the classic look of them and then started to look…
I’ve added several new prints in Starpointe’s online shop — original art, original gifts — you can’t get much cooler than that! – A Jackalope in black & white — a woodcut interpretation of the mythological wild-west-beast. – An illustration for Wells Book Arts Center’s fifth chapbook, Negative Compass by Bret Shepard. – And three…
Join Starpointe Studio Sunday September 9th, 11am through 6pm for a paper making odyssey at this annual one-day-event, Josephine Sculpture Park’s Fall Arts Festival! Continuing our support of a healthy environment for birds and beneficial insects, this creative workshop will guide you through the process of making paper by hand with seed inclusions. This unique…
My brand new Jackalope print will be exhibited at the Mid America Print Council Conference (MAPC) in Laramie, Wyoming October 3–6, 2018 as part of the Jackalope Portfolio organized by Oscar Gillespie. The conference theme is “Go West.” In that spirit, Gillespie sold the Jackalope portfolio exchange theme to 23 participants: “The frontier is forever…