How It All Started.

If you follow my blog posts (and don't worry if you haven't, because truth be told I've spent about the last year and half debating if I should be blogging in the first place), you would have read my post about that awkward moment when I tell people what I "do".  Once that moment is over, the next question is usually, "when did you start doing that?"

Exploring my creative side

Let me explain.

As with most college students, when I was getting ready to graduate, my plan was to take over the world...with my art of course.  I set out to be a freelance illustrator.  I made countless appointments and schlepped my portfolio to art directors upon art directors; anyone within a 50 mile radius of Philadelphia.  Although I got a few jobs here and there, I found most art directors didn't really understand my work at the time.  And, if steady work wasn't going to come in soon, I was going to have to go in to survival mode.  So, I got a full-time job as a graphic designer.  I worked an agency for a few years, and while there, I got married, moved to New jersey and my 90 minute commute turned in to a three hour commute.

That got old fast.

So I quit.

My husband and I started a family and I started doing odd jobs on a part-time basis to help ease finances, fitting things in around nap times and when I could conveniently get a sitter.  As my kids got older and my time freer, there of getting back in to "my art" was whispering min my ear.

Since I had been out of the loop for a little while, I knew I had to spruce up my portfolio.  I grabbed my camera and started taking pictures of anything and everything I thought I could use for reference photos for future art projects.  You know, what does a kid eating ice cream look like, or a chair with a pillow on it taken in every conceivable angle.

The things is, I realized I liked taking the pictures more than trying to reproduce them in another media. I found myself composing, cropping and enhancing, and a new art form was born.

Over the years, probably about 10 or so, I've experimented with different subjects and different techniques.  I like where I am now, but I never stop learning.  So stick around, because you never know when something new and unusual is going to pop up!