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How to Make an Art Print with a Half Inch Border Using Photoshop

How to Make an Art Print with a Half Inch Border Using Photoshop

So here is my good deed of the day, to other artists and my future self: I created this video tutorial to refer to if you are trying to make prints that have a consistent half-inch border across multiple sizes. Cheers to figuring stuff out together and sharing resources and recommendations instead of headaches and horror stories.
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10 Takeaways from the Artist Project Toronto

10 Takeaways from the Artist Project Toronto

This past weekend I participated in the Artist Project Toronto for my very first time and would certainly call it a success. Thank you so much to everyone who came to the event, introduced themselves, asked me questions about my art, took a card, or even purchased my work! Let's highlight 10 takeaways for artists who might consider having a booth of their own one day.  
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Home Free

Home Free

 What do you call it when for personal, financial, aspirational and/or interpersonal reasons you decide to quit your day job, leave the city, and move back home with your family who you haven’t lived with full-time since senior year of high school? Say it with me now… a mental breakd-… an artist’s retreat*! Here’s what I’ve been up to in the last month on my “creative hiatus” …
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Death of "The Chill Girl"

Death of "The Chill Girl"

Like so many people out there, I have aspired consciously and unconsciously to be “the chill girl” for far too long and it has taken much too much from me. I am in the process of a personal and artistic rebrand where I try to admit that I do in fact have wants and needs beyond what I currently have. I am determined to responsibly and mindfully stop giving into fear so that I can make the kind of art I feel called to make and manifest opportunities that are more in alignment with my goals.
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Women in a gallery looking at a minimalistic black circle painting.

“Are you pretentious?” “Maybe.” “Well, are you a good witch or a bad witch?” …

Just as beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, who and what is pretentious will always be contentious.

 

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Practicing Failure

Practicing Failure

I like to think of myself as someone who is well-versed in the art of failure. I’m not easily discouraged and, while I hold very high personal standards in a lot of areas, I’m not very hard on myself. From a very young age I had the temperament to handle a good bit of failure and to want to try new things and I had parents who pushed me to test those limits and reach my potential for failure. No parent wants to see their child struggle, but I feel really grateful for the creative and contained ways mine introduced me to rejection and disappointment. 
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My painting "Close to you": an aerial view of a couple in bed sleeping back to back. The women hold herself and looks back over her shoulder hoping he notices.

Welcome to my Taylor Swift Era

 I am in my Taylor Swift era and those who get it will get it and those who don’t can cast their judgement as I continue to use my art to illustrate my emotional experiences. So, what about my paintings right now makes me feel creatively compatible with Taylor?
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Art Therapy

Art Therapy

For the first time maybe in my life, my art has become an emotional outlet. This morning I needed to paint, not out of obligation to anyone else but out of personal necessity. It has felt so right and so special. I get to take the incessant thoughts and motifs in my head and manifest them onto my canvas.
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