My Daylight: Art Show @ Free People Seattle

Happy Tuesday! I wanted to share some shots from my show earlier this month at Free People Seattle. It was so much fun mixing art with apparel and of course everyone loved having a glass of wine to sip on as they shopped. The store has a perfect little Sale room that we converted into our own mini gallery space for the evening. It was such a great collaboration that we want to do it again with more local artists in September! So calling all Seattle artists! If you love Free People, let us know and submit a few pieces of work that you feel represent your own personal style. We'll choose a handful of artists to show for another wonderful evening of art, wine, shopping and great company!

Hope you're all having an inspiring Summer, Enjoy!!

So this is what I'm thinking...

Happy Monday my friends! I know I've been away for a bit but I promise I've been doing what makes me happy. For me that is making art, but I hope you'll insert your own version of that below, and then do it as much as humanly possible...

graphic inspiration found here

You're Invited: Art + Wine + Free People

I am SO excited to be kicking off our Summer Art Series at downtown Seattle's Free People this Thursday night and I would LOVE to see you there! There will be free wine, TONS of amazing clothing on Sale (AND it will be an additional 25% off!!) and my paintings will up throughout the store for the evening...

 If all goes well we're hoping to make this a monthly event so if you are a local Seattle artist and a fan of Free People, we want to hear from you as we'll be looking for a couple more artists to feature throughout the summer!! Hope to see you soon!!

My Daylight: Making the Sidewalk Happy

Happy Monday!! Working on a weekend isn't my favorite thing to do, but when the job is to spend the day drawing on the sidewalk, I'll take it! I parked myself outside of our downtown Seattle Free People store all day yesterday with a handful of chalk and a cup of coffee (of course) and made the sidewalk as bright as possible...

I pulled inspiration from our website and our merchandise and just let it unfold. It was so interesting to see people's reactions as they walked through it and a couple people even told me it made their day. Others, like this adorable little girl, were inspired to pick up a piece of chalk themselves and join in on the fun. It was a wonderful reminder of how much simple happiness art can bring. All in all, not a bad Sunday...Enjoy!

D.I.Y. Northwest: Just Add Bleach

Lately all I ever want to wear to work in is tattered old t-shirts. They are super comfy, can go with literally anything, and only get better when I spill paint/dye/bleach on them, or snag them on a ladder. So since I end up loving the shirts I've 'ruined' the most, I thought I'd speed up the process a bit with this shirt I just got from Urban Outfitters....

I'm telling you, JUST ADD BLEACH...Enjoy!

An Artful Weekend: Amy Sia

Happy Friday everyone! It has continued to be GREY here in Seattle so I'm still working on bringing as much brightness and color to my world as possible this week. These beautifully dyed silk scarves by artist Amy Sia have every color of the spectrum and yet they still maintain a level of elegance and sophistication that makes them completely wearable without feeling like you're channeling rainbow bright...

Each scarf is so unique, it'd be like wearing a vibrant abstract painting around your neck, and if that doesn't brighten things up, I don't know what does...Enjoy!

Photo Diary // Free People Manhattan Beach

A couple weeks ago Free People sent me to Southern California to add some Summer display details to a handful of our stores there and among them was one of the most beautiful locations I've been to yet, Manhattan Beach. The store is just blocks up from the boardwalk and I was in complete bliss as I sat in the sun soaked window ledge painting onto a view of the ocean...

I also got to decorate a surfboard, their version of our usual decorated bikes, which may just have been my favorite Free People project to date. And as you can see, I'm fully embracing our staple display accent color; hot pink...Enjoy!

Colored Daylight: Summer Brights

Happy Friday everyone! I have to admit, my relationship with Seattle is on the rocks right now. It always is this time of year, when Summer is happening everywhere else in the country and Seattle is pretending like it's January. It's not awesome. So today I'm willing the sun out with these hot weather hues, a bold and bright palette only fit for a warm Summer day...

Yago Hortal / Anthropologie / unknown

now hopefully Seattle will get the memo and follow suit...hope your weekend is bright and full of sunshine, Enjoy!!

Love it / Live it: High [Fashion] Altitude

There is little else that inspires me as much as a snow-capped mountain range, and this Icelandic view taken by an Australian photographer known as 'She Is Frank' is one of the most magnificent I have ever seen. I can't say enough how humbling and calming mountainscapes are to me and with the bright blue sky and nothing else in sight, I can't imagine feeling anything but serenity here...

And because I'm a big believer in dressing to inspire, I love this printed silk top...Enjoy!